Kansas Wesleyan Men's Basketball opened the new year with a dominating 99-46 win over the Tabor College Bluejays on Friday night inside Mabee Arena.
The game which was originally scheduled for Saturday was moved up a day due to the incoming winter storm expected to hit the area over the weekend.
While it was cold outside, it was toasty warm inside as the Coyotes shot 58.7 percent from the field for the game (37 of 63), and dropped in 11 3-pointers in the game.
The Coyotes jumped out to a 6-2 lead to start the game, and after Tabor had closed to within a point, a 6-0 run pushed the lead out to seven points at 12-5 on a bucket by Carson Jones.
Wesleyan led 19-13 when the Coyotes embarked on a 7-0 run to make it 26-13 with 9:44 left in the first on a Jones 3-pointer. KWU held Tabor without a point for nearly three minutes in while building a 21-point lead with 6:14 left at 38-17 on a bucket by Alex Littlejohn.
KWU led 48-29 at the half.
The Coyotes continued to extend the lead in the second half, pushing the lead back over 20 on a Landon Wagler triple at 55-34 with 17:38 left.
KWU led 70-44 with 13:06 left, but stepped up the defensive pressure, holding Tabor scoreless for almost seven minutes while building a 90-44 lead with 6:37 left. Tabor didn't score until free throws by James Shoenfelt with 6:16 to go.
Tabor finished the game on a flurry scoring 22 points in the final six minutes against the reserves for the Coyotes.
Littlejohn led the Coyotes with 19 points and nine rebounds, as he moves closer to the KWU all-time scoring record, now just 32 points away from the record of 1544 set by Gary Cassell in 1995. Littlejohn also joined some very elite company becoming just the second player in the history of the KWU basketball program to score over 1500 points, passing the milestone tonight.
Tucker Bowman had 18 and Wagler had 11. Aiden Leckband had a breakout game with eight points and eight rebounds for the Coyotes.