The Basics
• Score: #19 Johns Hopkins-70, Dickinson-50
• Records: JHU (18-3, 14-2 CC) • DC (9-11, 8-7 CC)
• Location: Carlisle, PA • Kline Center
• The Short Story: Three players scored in double figures and the Blue Jays dominated on the glass as 19^th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's basketball team beat host Dickinson, 70-50, Saturday afternoon.
 
How it Happened
• This one was close early as the teams traded buckets over the opening 4:15 and Dickinson led 8-6. Junior Carson James tied the game with a jumper in the paint and then put the Blue Jays on top after a Red Devils' miss on the other end. Juniors Lincoln Yeutter and Sidney Thybulle followed with back-to-back jumpers to stake Hopkins to a 14-8 lead.
• Anthony Goeb halted the run, temporarily, with a bucket, but a Tom Quarry triple and a Thybulle layup pushed the lead back to nine. The teams traded scores over the ensuing three minutes and it was 21-15 Hopkins with 4:19 to go in the half.
• Yeutter drained a jumper in the paint, followed by a Will Sykes three-point play and a Conner Delaney bucket and just like that it was a 13-point lead at the half.
• Jack Tierney sandwiched buckets around a Delaney jumper and it was 30-19 Hopkins at the 18:30-mark of the second. Senior Braeden Johnson scored a bucket in the paint to kick-start an 11-0 run that saw the Blue Jays double their lead.
• The Red Devils answered with a 9-2 spurt, capped by an Andrew Gostovich three, to slice the deficit to 15 with 11:40 to go. The lead see-sawed up and down over the next 100 seconds and JHU led 48-33 midway through the half.
• Yeutter drained a three-pointer to ignite another of those patented Blue Jay runs. This one turned a 15-point game into a 31-point game in the blink of an eye. Johnson put the punctuation on the run with his third triple of the half.
• Dickinson kept battling and cut the deficit to 20 by the final horn, but the 31-point hole was too much to overcome.
 
What it Means
• Hopkins remains in first place in the Centennial Conference standings with two games left.
• JHU improves to 53-35 against Dickinson and has won eight straight in the series.
 
Inside the Box Score
• Johnson led the Blue Jays with a season-high 15 points, while Yeutter added 15 points and seven rebounds.
• Thybulle controlled a game and career-high 18 rebounds as the Blue Jays outrebounded the Red Devils, 47-26. Thybulle's 18 boards are the most by a Blue Jay since Danny Nawrocki had 18 versus McDaniel on February 7, 2007.
• Lucas Curran was the only Red Devil to finish in double figures with 11 points. Gostovich added nine points and tied for the team-lead with three rebounds.
 
Up Next
•  Hopkins travels to the Eastern Shore on Wednesday, February 16 to take on Washington College. Tip-off at Cain Athletic Center is slated for 7:00 pm.