BALTIMORE, MD – The 18
th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's basketball team got 20 points from junior
John Windley as the Blue Jays beat visiting Dickinson, 79-55, in the 22
nd annual Wall-O'Mahony Game Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays improve to 16-5 overall and 12-2 in the Centennial Conference while the Red Devils fall to 8-13 on the season and 5-9 in the conference.
The first four minutes were a close affair and Dickinson led 9-7. Graduate student
Carson James tied the game with a driving layup at the 14:49-mark that sparked a 20-4 run. Four players combined for the 20 points for JHU in a run that spanned seven and a half minutes. Freshman
Brayden Fagbemi and Windley
sandwiched a pair of threes around a Ryan Leskauskas layup and it was 25-11 Hopkins with 7:18 to go in the half.
The Red Devils answered with a 7-3 spurt to make it a 10-point game 90 seconds later. Fagbemi then drained his second bucket from downtown to kick-start a 12-0 run as the Blue Jays' lead ballooned to 22. Windley capped the run with a driving layup and a three-pointer to put JHU up 40-18. Dickinson kept battling and closed the half with seven unanswered points to make it a 15-point game at the break.
Dickinson picked up right where it left off, scoring the first seven points of the second to pull within eight less than two minutes in. Fagbemi got Hopkins on the board with driving layup, followed by five straight points from junior
Brian Johansson and just like that the lead was back to 15.
The teams went then back and forth for nearly 10 minutes and the Blue Jays led 67-52. It was all Hopkins over the final six minutes as JHU closed the game on a 12-3 run to take the 24-point win.
Windley led the Blue Jays with a game-high 20 points, his sixth 20-point game of the season and third in the last four games. He was named the Wall-O'Mahony Game MVP for his performance. Fagbemi and sophomore
Charlie Jackson added 12 points each, while Jackson had a game-high seven rebounds. James and freshman
Jeb Williams added 10 points apiece as five Blue Jays finished in double figures. James also handed out a game and career-high eight assists. David Petrusev earned Wall-O'Mahony MVP honors for the Red Devils after going 5-of-6 from the field for 13 points. Nate Ogbu was the only other player in double figures with 10 points and a team-high five rebounds.
Hopkins returns to action on Tuesday, February 6 as the Blue Jays host the Franklin & Marshall Diplomats. Tip-off at Goldfarb Gym is slated for 8:00 pm.