WHITTIER, Calif. – The University of Redlands Men's Basketball team (13-2, 5-1 SCIAC) cruised past Whittier College 105-60 Saturday afternoon leading for all but :13 seconds.

Another hot start set the tone for the Bulldogs with Jake Hlywiak (Valencia, CA) making a pair of three-pointers followed by Jhace Boston (Bakersfield, CA) and Lucas Gordon (San Marcos, CA) chipping in with field goals for a quick 10-0 start.

Whittier settled in, though, cutting the deficit to eight, 21-13, with 11:42 on the clock. Hlywiak, Boston, and Gordon, however, extended the U of R 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, which was 29, at the half.

The Bulldogs' defense did their job in the first five plus minutes of the second half holding the Poets to just eight points, while their offense had 11, which put them ahead by 32, 66-34. Omari Ferguson (Chicago, Ill.) and Chozen Amadi (Richardson, TX) each had four-straight points before Derek Sangster (Sunnyvale, CA) 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 back at least 20 years to January 2006.

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

On the night Redlands shot 50.7% from the field, 35.1% from deep and 72.7% from the free-throw line.  They scored 42 points in the paint, had 20 second chance points, forced 22 Poet turnovers and turned them into 36 points and had eight fastbreak points.  

Redlands remains on the road as they travel to Claremont, CA to take on Pomona-Pitzer on Monday, January 19 beginning at 7:00 p.m.