SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The Washburn Ichabods survived a late comeback and a pair of furious runs by Lubbock Christian in a 65-63 improving to 6-0 on the season. The win was Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman's 794th of his career.

Washburn jumped out to leads to6-0 and 13-2 before the Chaps rallied cutting the lead to two at 15-13 with 11 minutes to play in the first half. 

The Chapps then ripped off a 17-3 run to take a seven point lead over the break and took as lead at 39-31 with 17:56 to play in the game. Washburn came back with a 14-6 run of its own to take a 43-42 lead but LCU took the lead back by one at 46-45 before the Ichabods took the lead for good on a jumper by Brady Skeens at 47-46 jump starting an 11-0 run over the next 4:20 pushing the lead to 10 at 56-46.

However the Chaps (2-5) didn't go away as they trimmed Washburn's lead to one at 64-63 with five seconds to play. After a foul by LCU, Javion Blake hit 1 of 2 free throws locking up the 65-63 win for Washburn.

Randall Smith led the Ichabods with 14 points adding two assists and three rebounds and Cameron Wiggins and David Salach each had 13. Skeens finished with eight points and 13 rebounds adding three blocks.

Washburn shot 45 percent from the game hitting 6 of 19 3-pointers, but only 5 of 12 free throws.

The Chaps were 38 percent from the field hitting 25 of 66 overall and 7 of 20 3-pointers with 6 of 8 on free throw attempts.

Washburn returns to the court on Saturday when they will face Manhattan Christian on Thursday followed with its final non-conference game with Newman on Saturday.