BALTIMORE, MD – The 11^th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's basketball team led wire-to-wire in a 67-51 win over visiting Ursinus Saturday afternoon.
 
The Blue Jays improve to 12-3 on the season and 6-2 in the Centennial Conference. The Bears fall to 10-5 overall and 5-3 in the  conference.
 
Senior Carson James sparked a 9-2 run with a driving layup at 17:24. Graduate student Jayden Nixon and sophomore John Windley followed with a pair of layups, before three points from senior Sidney Thybulle put Hopkins up 15-8. Ursinus sliced the lead back to three with back-to-back buckets from Trevor Wall and Kyle Maurer.
 
Mohamed Toure and Cole Grubbs sandwiched baskets around a Brian Johansson three and it was 20-16 Blue Jays with 6:42 to go in the half. Johansson then hit another from downtown, followed by a triple from senior Conor Gibson, and then a layup and just like that the lead was 12. Nick Nocito halted the run with a three-pointer and then Wall scored on a put-back to make it a 28-21 game with 18 ticks on the clock. Graduate student Tom Quarry closed out the half with a pair of free throws with just 0.3 seconds remaining to send JHU into the half with a 30-21 lead.
 
Wall scored a bucket in the paint to open the second and cut the lead to seven. Quarry and Thybulle answered with a pair of field goals, sandwiched around a Jaiden Jakubowski free throw and Hopkins led 34-24. The lead would then see-saw between seven and 10 points over the ensuing eight minutes as the teams traded scorers.
 
Leading 47-39 midway through the second, Windley made two shots from the line to ignite a 20-8 run. Windley, James, Nixon and junior Will Sykes combined for the 20 points that saw the Blue Jays push out to a 20-point lead. Sykes capped the run with a three-pointer from the top of the key with 3:20 to play. The Bears got two buckets from Ryan Hughes in the final two minutes to account for the 67-51 final.
 
James led Hopkins with 16 points and four assists, while also grabbing five rebounds. Thybulle posted his second double-double of the season with 10 points, 10 boards and three blocks. Johansson added 11 points for the Blue Jays, who shot 43.1 percent from the field. Hughes led all scorers with 18 points while Grubbs had eight points and 10 rebounds. Maurer chipped in 11 points and five boards.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Wednesday, January 18 as the Blue Jays host the Franklin & Marshall Diplomats. Tip-off at Goldfarb Gym is slated for 8:00 pm.
 
Notes: The Blue Jays held the Bears 30 points below their league-leading 81.8 points per game. JHU also held Ursinus to just 21.1 percent from three, after the Bears entered the game with a league-best 39.4 percent three-point percentage. The 51 points are the fewest scored by Ursinus since November 15, 2019.