The Muhlenberg men's basketball team put on an offensive clinic in its final home game of 2022, improving to 6-1 with an 84-61 win against Drew.

Facing a Rangers squad that came in ranked in the top 10 in Division III in scoring defense, field-goal percentage defense and three-point field-goal percentage defense, the Mules shot 57.6 percent from the field - 72.4 percent in the second half - en route to scoring 84 points for the second straight game.

Graduate student Dan Gaines led Muhlenberg with 20 points. Junior Giovanni Rubino, the reigning Centennial Conference player of the week, added 15 points, and senior Tommy McGuire scored 14, one off his career high, on 7-of-8 shooting.

Sophomore Charlie Gillikin came up just short of his first career double-double, finishing with 9 points and 9 rebounds.

The Mules started out just 2-for-10 from the field against the Drew zone and trailed by as many as eight points, 16-8, midway through the first half. Gillikin's three sparked a 15-5 run - which also included the second dunk of the game by McGuire (pictured above) - that put Muhlenberg in front at 23-21. Back-to-back threes by Gaines in the final 1:05 of the first half sent the Mules into the locker room with a 32-28 edge.

The Rangers (6-3) closed to within one, at 34-33, early in the second half, but the Mules just could not miss. They made 14 of their first 17 field-goal attempts in the second half, and on two of their misses, they got the offensive rebound and scored. Muhlenberg went on a 26-4 blitz in under eight minutes to open up a 23-point lead and turn a close game into a runaway.

Sophomore Luke Gordos did a superb job in the middle of the zone offense, scoring 8 points on 4-of-4 shooting and adding 4 assists without a turnover.

The big lead allowed several of the Mules' reserves to see their first action of the season. Freshman Drew Greene scored his first career points on a pair of free throws and also assisted senior Bryce Nash on Muhlenberg's third dunk of the game.