The Muhlenberg men's basketball team scored the first five points of the game and never looked back, toppling Wilkes 74-59 for its second straight win.

The Mules (7-5), who entered the game ranked ninth in Division III in scoring defense, held the Colonels (6-5) to 33.9-percent shooting, keeping them nearly 20 points below their season scoring average of 78.4 points.

Muhlenberg enjoyed a big advantage on the perimeter, making 10 three-pointers while holding Wilkes to 2-of-21 shooting from behind the arc. 

Sophomores Jack Woodard and Drew Buck made four threes apiece, with Woodard (pictured above) scoring a career-high 18 points and Buck adding 15. Sophomore Arinze Achufusi also scored in double figures, finishing with 12 to go along with 6 steals.

A second-chance three by Buck and fast-break layup by junior Peter Stanton-Shepherd gave the Mules their early 5-0 lead. It was a three-point game, 16-13, at the 11-minute mark before Muhlenberg went on a 12-2 run, capped by a steal and layup by Achufusi, to extend its lead to 13. 

Wilkes never got closer than eight points the rest of the way. The Colonels sliced a 16-point deficit in half with an 8-0 second-half run and had a chance to cut further into the spread after rebounding a Mule miss with 6:20 to go. But Buck knocked the ball out of the hands of the rebounder to junior Liam Gorman, who fed senior Nate Hoffman for what would turn into a three-point play. Muhlenberg kept its lead in double digits the rest of the way.

Stanton-Shepherd provided a highlight in the second half when he jumped a crosscourt pass the the three-point line, stole the ball and dribbled down the court for a dunk.

The win came in the Mules' final non-conference game of the year and was their first at Wilkes in 43 years ... although that was the last time they played there.