TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabods improved to 31-1 all-time in home openers in Lee Arena while tying a school record with 64 rebounds in an 89-68 win over Tabor on Monday night. The Ichabods (2-0) will return to action hosting Rockhurst on Saturday at 3 p.m.

The Ichabods led from start to finish in the game jumping out to 1 21-11 lead with 12:29 to go before the Bluejays (6-0) came back to tie the score at 23 wth 9:42 remaining in the first half. The Ichabods built the lead back to 10 at 44-34 before the half and would go on to take a 48-39 lead into the halftime break after shooting 52 percent from the field hitting 17 of 33 shots while holding Tabor to 13 of 42 attempts for a 31 percent average.

In the second half, a 25-9 over a 12:38 stretch pushed the lead to 73-51 as the Ichabods pushed out to a lead of 26 with four minutes to play leading to the 21-point win.

Washburn was led in a balanced scoring attech by Jeremy Lickteig and Randall Smith each recorded 13 points while Tyas Martin had 11. Cameron Wiggins and Andy Wilson each had 10. Wiggins hadded seven rebounds, five steals and four assists as well. David Salach led the ichabods with eight rebounds scoring eight points off the bench adding three assists.

Malik Brooks scored 15 to lead the Bluejays in a game which counted as an exhibition game for Tabor.

The Ichabods had 29 of their 64 rebounds in the first half holding the Bluejays to 36 in the game. The last time an Ichabod team had 64 rebounds was against Missouri-Kansas City on Feb. 2, 1976 in a 69-65 win over the Kangaroos. Washburn also had 24 offensive rebounds leading to 26 second chance points.