Saint Vincent SVC 3-3,0-0 PAC

104

John Carroll JCU 5-0,0-0 NCAC

Saint Vincent SVC

3-3,0-0 PAC

Final

Dec. 02, 2025

104

John Carroll JCU

5-0,0-0 NCAC

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	F
Saint Vincent SVC	26	53	79
John Carroll JCU	55	49	104

Summary
Box Score

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | 12/2/2025 8:05:00 PM | Joe Ginley '16, SID

Men's Basketball Impresses in Home Opener, Firing Past Saint Vincent

Mike Lamirand enjoyed a career day in the victory

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS – The last time that John Carroll Men's Basketball stepped onto Mike Moran Court in front of a home crowd, the Blue Streaks won a title. Today's team did not end the evening with a trophy, but on a show nonetheless.

The Blue Streaks dominated in a wire-to-wire home opener at the Tony DeCarlo Varsity Center against the Saint Vincent College Bearcats, who finished last year at 20-6.

John Carroll advances to 5-0 on the year with the 104-79 win over the Bearcats, a member of the Presidents Athletic Conference.

From the start, the Blue Streaks were hot from downtown. A Kyle Irwin 3-pointer in the first minute set the tone for a game filled with triples. Another Irwin three set the lead at 8-0 three minutes into the game before the Bearcats could lace their shoes. A Jack Zapolnik trey placed the lead at 12-3 heading into the first media timeout. Turnovers harmed the Bearcats, as JCU stood ahead, 21-9, entering the second media break.

Mike Lamirand and Sean Collins took over the game for a while with excellent offense. Collins created space inside and Lamirand heated up from deep, stretching the advantage to 37-13. Lamirand stayed hot as the half continued, with Luke Chicone getting his buckets, too. JCU stood in full control after 20 minutes, 55-26.

Back-to-back Kasey Hunt jumpers opened the second half and Collins sank a layup to up the lead to 35. Saint Vincent began to find a little offense, but even at the second media timeout, the Blue Streaks were fully in the driver's seat with a 76-49 advantage.

Down the stretch, the Bearcats scored some to keep it from getting overly out of hand, but the outcome was never in doubt.

Mike Lamirand finished with a game-high 21 points and a team-high 6 rebounds. Jack Zapolnik followed with 16 points, and Luke Chicone tallied 15 plus an impressive 6 assists.

"Warmups felt really good," said Lamirand. "I didn't think they were pressuring me enough and I felt like I couple shoot over them. In the past couple of weeks, my teammates have been telling me to shoot the ball whenever I'm open. They've been giving me a lot of confidence in practice. We're playing good team basketball. We all trust each other a lot. We haven't really played with each other a lot, but we're all good friends. We trust each other, we want each other to succeed, and we want the team to succeed."

Next Up
The Blue Streaks will head to Wittenberg on Saturday for a 3 pm tip-off in Springfield, Ohio. This will be the first contest in the North Coast Athletic Conference for JCU Men's Basketball.

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