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TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabods reached the 100-point mark for the second time this season snapping a two-game losing streak to Southwest Baptist in the process in a 100-71 win over the Bearcats. The Ichabods improve to 13-11 on the season and 7-10 in the MIAA standings remaining in a tie for eighth in the conference race. The Ichabods will be back in action at Missouri Southern on Wednesday.
The Ichabods jumped out to a 17-6 lead in the first half and eventually would lead by as many as 29 in the first half at the 4:21 mark of the opening stanza at 45-16. SBU head coach Jeff Guiot was ejected at the 6:23 mark of the first half after receiving a flagrant technical with Washburn leading 35-14 as the Ichabods were in the middle of a 16-0 run wrapped up by the two technical free throws by William McNeill and a 3-pointer by
Nate Daniels. The Ichabods held SBU scoreless for nearly three minutes during the run.
The Ichabods were 19 of 38 in the first half hitting 5 of 15 3-point attempts and 10 of 14 attempts from the free throw line. Washburn held the Bearcats to 10 of 27 shooting for 37 percent and 1 of 10 from behind the 3-point line. The Ichabods took a 53-27 lead into the break tying the most points scored in a half by Washburn this season.
In the second half, Washburn stretched the lead to as many as 38 at 90-52 with 7:17 to go in the game before taking the 29-point win as
Todd Eils' 3-pointer with 2:14 to go put the Ichabods into triple figures for the first time since they topped Baker on Nov. 28 in a 100-60 win over the Wildcats.
Washburn put six different Ichabods in double figures including all five starters led by
Logan Stutz's 18 points. Stutz was 4 of 4 from the field and 10 of 12 from the free throw line in his first start since Dec. 5 at Northwest Missouri. McNeill and
Bryce Simons each scored 17. It was a career-high for Simons as he hit 5 of 6 3-point attempts to go along with a new carer-high six rebounds. Daniels scored 13 points off the bench with eight rebounds while
Maurice Colter scored 12 points and De'Andre Washington scored 10 points with eight rebounds with six assists and five steals.
Ivan Croptov scored 14 points to lead SBU.
Washburn finished the game 37 of 75 from the field for a 49 percent average hitting 11 of 29 3-point attempts and 15 of 21 from the free throw line. The Bearcats were 27 of 67 from the field and 4 of 32 from 3-point range. SBU was 13 of 18 from the free throw line.
The Ichabods outran the Bearcats scoring 17 fast break points compared to two for SBU while scoring 25 points of 20 SBU turnovers. The Ichabods improved to 62-4 in games which they reached the 100-point mark.
