If the Blue Streaks were looking for a test on the road from a team hungry to play spoiler, they got all they could handle from the Otterbein Cardinals. 

Thankfully, John Carroll kept a hot shooting touch all night long in reaching the century mark for a third time this season, dispatching of its host 103-93 in Westerville Wednesday night. 

Box Score

The first half was a power struggle between the two teams as the lead changed seven times. Otterbein's Chris Davis recorded nine points in the first 7:21 to keep it close between the Cardinals and Streaks.  

John Carroll was able to hang on to the upper hand as the half drew to a close, taking a four-point advantage going into the half thanks to a late three-pointer from Joey Meyer. His shot ended an opening 20 minutes in which the Streaks were 19-34 (.559) from the field and 8-16 (.500) from three-point range.

The Cardinals kept it tight coming out of the half, as they scored on each of the first four possessions. Otterbein would still hold a 69-67 lead inside of 12 minutes when John Carroll would finally put together a stretch where they began to assert dominance over the game.

At the 11:41 mark of the second half, following a Tyler Kirsch made jumper to tie the game up at 69-69, Rudy Kirbus went ballistic as he nailed three three-pointers in a matter of less than 70 seconds. From that point, Kirbus and his Streaks teammates never looked back.  

The Blue Streaks lead got as big as 15 points at the 4:16 mark as Brian Dandrea had some magic of his own from deep, hitting his lone three-pointer of the evening as part of a 13-4 run.

John Carroll (16-5, 12-3 OAC), in stretching its season-best win streak to seven games, was led by Kirbus with 17 points. Four other Streaks scored in double figures as Corey Shontz tallied 15, and the trio of Chris Zajac, Brian Dandrea and Tommy Lavelle each recorded 11 points. 

For the game, JCU was 37-63 (.587) from the floor including a scintillating 15-28 (.536) from long range.

The Cardinals (6-16, 4-11 OAC) were paced by a game and career-high 27 points from Nathan Edick.
Otterbein also had three other starters in double-figures: Brice Rausch (21, ties a career-high), Chris Davis (16), and Cory Ratai (13). The Cardinals were ultimately doomed by the lack of bench scoring as they only managed eight points outside of the starting five as compared to John Carroll's 64.