WHITTIER, Calif. – The University of Redlands men's basketball team (13-2, 5-1) easily defeated Whittier College 105-60 Saturday afternoon as they led for all but 13 seconds.

Another hot start set the tone with Jake Hlywiak making a pair of threes with Jhace Boston and Lucas Gordon chipping in a field goal each for a quick 10-0 start.

Whittier settled in, though, trailing by eight, 21-13, with 11:42 on the clock. Hlywiak, Boston, and Gordon, however, extended the lead to 15 less than two minutes later.

A late field goal as time expired after an offensive rebound by Gordon gave Redlands their largest lead of the game, 29, at the half.

The Bulldogs' defense did their job in the first five plus minutes of the second half as they held the Poets to only eight points while their offense had 11 which put them ahead by 32, 66-34. Omari Ferguson and Chozen Amadi each had four-straight points before Derek Sangster got into the paint.

Redlands led by 30 plus the remainder of the game and by as many as 47 in the program's largest margin of victory over Whittier going at least 20 years to January 2006.

Hlywiak needed only 19 minutes to score 18 points thanks to six threes. He added four assists and two rebounds. Sangster had 17 points on seven field goal attempts and Amadi and Gordon also needed fewer than 10 shots to reach double figures.

Redlands remains on the road as they face Pomona-Pitzer Colleges on Monday at 7 p.m.