BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins men's basketball team outscored 21^st-ranked Hood 24-13 in the final 6:06 to erase a 76-69 deficit as the Blue Jays topped the Blazers, 93-89, in Goldfarb Gymnasium Tuesday night.  The win runs Johns Hopkins' winning streak to four and improves the Blue Jays' record to 5-1, while the Blazers suffer their first loss of the season and slip to 6-1.
 
The Blazers had used a 12-5 spurt of their own to turn a 64-64 tie into the 76-69 advantage as the lock dripped under the seven-minute mark.  A driving Kullen Robinson layup ignited the spree for Hood, which would also get a pair of Jevon Yarbrough three-pointers to help fuel the run.
 
Johns Hopkins started its comeback with a Jeb Williams layup just 16 seconds after Yarbrough's second triple in Hood's 12-5 run and the Blue Jays would make it a one-possession game on a Charlie Jackson layup a short time later.
 
The Blue Jays would get even at 78, but Hood would answer and built the lead back to four at 85-81 on a pair of Jude Huseby free throws with 1:51 on the clock.  A Wyatt Eglinton Manner three-pointer eight seconds later and freshman Teagan Swint's sixth triple of the game 31 seconds after that quickly gave the Blue Jays an 87-85 lead that they would never relinquish.
 
A Robinson turnover led to an Eglington Manner layup with 29 seconds remaining that pushed the lead to 89-85 and the Blue Jays would hit 4-of-6 from the line, including a pair of Jackson with three seconds remaining, to seal the 93-89 victory.
 
The Blazers, who entered the game averaging 96 points per game, led 6-0 early on a pair of three-pointers before the game was 70 seconds old.  The Blue Jays would pull even at 12 on a Williams layup and neither team led by more than four until Hood grabbed a 25-19 lead on a driving layup by Yarbrough with 7:46 remaining in the first half.
 
The Blue Jays then got hot from deep as Swint would hit three from beyond the arc in a span of less than 90 seconds to quickly help turn the six-point deficit into a 31-29 lead with just over five minutes on the first-half clock.  Johns Hopkins would lead by as many as five before carrying a 41-37 lead into the break.
 
Johns Hopkins would build the lead to 48-39 early in the second half as a Tanti Felli triple and an Eglinton Manner layup helped fuel the early spurt, but Hood answered quickly and pulled even at 48 on a Karron Mallory three-pointer with 16:01 to play.
 
There would be five ties and several lead changes over the next six-plus minutes before Jackson forced the fifth of those five ties with a pair of free throws with just under 10 minutes remaining to knot the game at 64.  Robinson's layup that triggered the 12-5 Blazer run would follow just 18 seconds later as Hood built its biggest lead of the game (76-69) when Yarbrough dropped in the second of his two triples during the spree.  That set the stage for Williams, who answered the Yarbrough three-pointer a short time later to ignite the 24-13 game-ending spree for Johns Hopkins.
 
Jackson paced the Blue Jays with 24 points and nine rebounds, while Swint, who had scored a total of two points in 11 minutes in two games played to-date, dropped in 18 points as he was 6-of-8 from three-point range in 17 minutes.  Eglinton Manner (16) and Nick Klaiber (10) also scored in double figures for the Blue Jays, who hit 15-of-34 from three-point range on the night.  The 15 made three-pointers were two shy of the program single-game record.
 
Yarbrough led the Blazers with 36 points on 11-of-18 shooting from the field while also going 10-of-12 from the line.  Robinson added 17 points and Garrett Cox added 12 points and six rebounds.
 
The Blue Jay bench, led by Swint's 18, outscored the Hood bench 31-9 and Johns Hopkins turned 17 offensive rebounds into 18 second-chance points to help fuel the victory.
 
The Blue Jays will return to action on Saturday, December 6 when they welcome Swarthmore to Goldfarb Gymnasium for a non-conference game against the Garnet.
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