BALTIMORE, MD – The 20^th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's basketball team led wire-to-wire in a 73-58 win over visiting Franklin & Marshall Tuesday night in Centennial Conference action. The Blue Jays improve to 17-5 overall and 13-2 in the conference, while the Diplomats slip to 17-5 and 12-3.  
 
Hopkins led 62-44 after a Brayden Fagbemi three-pointer at the 8:05-mark, but a Vakaris Grauslys triple on the other end sparked a 12-2 F&M run. Grauslys accounted for all 12 Diplomat points as they sliced the deficit to just eight with 4:43 on the clock. Freshman Jeb Williams halted the run with a three from the corner to push the lead back to double digits.
 
John Seidman made a driving layup to pull F&M back within nine at the 2:52-mark. But it was all Hopkins for the final two and a half minutes as the Blue Jays closed out the game with six unanswered points.
 
Hopkins jumped out to a 7-1 lead before a 6-2 Franklin & Marshall spurt made it a 9-7 game at 15:51. The teams traded buckets over the ensuing six minutes and the Blue Jays led 14-12. A Will Sykes put-back ignited a 9-3 run as the Jays pushed out to a 23-15 lead with 5:36 on the clock. Omar Nichols and Grauslys sandwiched buckets around a John Windley triple and it was 26-20 just 60 seconds later. Sidney Thybulle answered with a bucket in the paint and Hopkins was off and running. JHU closed the half on a 10-3 run to take a 36-23 lead into the break.
 
The Blue Jays picked up right where they left off and quickly pushed their lead to 20 just two and a half minutes into the second. The Diplomats kept battling, fueled by a trio of three-pointers, and cut the deficit to 13 at the 15:01-mark. A Fagbemi pull-up jumper, followed by a Windley trey pushed the lead back to 18. The lead see-sawed up and down over the next five minutes and Hopkins led 62-44.
 
 Fagbemi scored a game-high 20 points to go with seven rebounds, five assists and two steals. Junior Brian Johansson poured in 17 points, while Windley added 11 points. Thybulle finished with a double-double with 10 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, including the 600^th of his career. He also blocked three shots while sophomore Charlie Jackson had a career-high five blocks. Grauslys led the Diplomats with 17 points. Nichols scored 12 points and Jaylen Green added 11 points. Seidman chipped in 10 points and five boards.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Saturday, February 10 as the Blue Jays travel to Haverford. Tip-off at Gooding Arena is slated for 1:00 pm.
 
Notes: Thybulle now ranks sixth in Johns Hopkins history with 603 career rebounds • He also ranks fifth with 124 career blocks • Fagbemi now has 79 assists on the season, the second most by a freshman in program history • Carson James moved into sixth place in JHU history with 287 career assists.