The Muhlenberg men's basketball team set a school record for shooting and clinched a home playoff game with a 94-61 win at Ursinus.

With one game remaining in the regular season, the regionally ranked Mules (16-8, 11-6) are guaranteed of being no worse than the fourth seed for the Centennial Conference playoffs. They will host the fifth or sixth seed in a first-round game on Tuesday, February 21.

Muhlenberg shot a blistering 64.9 percent from the field, breaking the school record for a CC game set earlier this season (63.3) vs. McDaniel. The Mules shot 64.3 percent in the first half and 65.5 percent in the second half en route to scoring their most points in a CC game since early in the 2018-19 season, when they poured in 96 at Haverford.

The 94 points and 33-point margin of victory were the most ever by Muhlenberg at Ursinus. The Mules had a 39-point home win against the Bears in 1998-99.

The offensive explosion came against an Ursinus squad that came into the game tied for third place with Muhlenberg and in search of its own home playoff game. The Mules eked out a four-point win at home when the teams played in late November.

Junior Giovanni Rubino led the Mules with 29 points, and graduate student Dan Gaines, the reigning CC co-player of the week, added 20. Sophomore Jayson Williams-Johnson scored 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting, and senior Tommy McGuire neared a double-double, finishing with 10 points and 8 rebounds.

Muhlenberg took control by scoring on four straight possessions in a two-minute span in a 10-0 first-half run, turning a 13-12 lead into a 23-12 advantage. Williams-Johnson later scored on three straight possessions to give the Mules a 31-16 edge with eight minutes to play in the half.

At that point, the Mules were 14-of-18 (77.8) from the field. Their pace cooled a bit, and the Bears (15-9, 10-7) cut the gap to six with a buzzer-beater at the end of the half.

Ursinus scored the first basket of the second half to close to within four, and it was 45-40 before Muhlenberg went on another scoring surge. Rubino scored 9 points in a 15-0 run that extended the margin to 20 a little more than six-and-a-half minutes into the half.

The Mules did not allow a field goal for a span of seven minutes, and Ursinus never got closer than 16 points.

Sophomore Luke Gordos (pictured above) scored 9 points on 4-of-6 shooting.