Grad student Sam Adusei scored six points and grabbed three rebounds with a blocked shot in the last two minutes to help the Judges survive a scare on the road.
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Ethan Edwards scored eight points in the last 55 seconds, including the game-winning 3-pointer with 5.8 seconds to go, as the Judges ran their winning streak in Chicago to four.
Dylan Lien (career-high 28 points) and Ethan Edwards (22 points) came off the bench to spark the Judges past the Violets in the 72nd meeting between the two schools.
The Judges are off to their first 3-0 start since 2015-16 thanks to another 20-point performance from Toby Harris, 18 from Ryan Power and 17 points, seven rebounds and six assists from Sam Adusei.
Tommy Eastman, who scored 920 points at Geneseo State and Middlebury, netted a game-high 20 points to lead the Judges in their first game in a month and 10 days.
Three days after one of the most dramatic games in recent history, the Judges had little trouble with the Lasers, scoring one of the five biggest margins of victory in program history.
Jake Rhode hit a half-court buzzer beater to lift No. 7 Elmhurst over No. 5 Wheaton (Ill.) while No. 3 Randolph-Macon and No. 10 UW-Oshkosh won road games over Top 25 opponents. Williams slowed down its Little 3 rival and Brandeis needed three-plus halves of basketball to beat Tufts. Read about it here.