GAMBIER, Ohio – The Kenyon College men's basketball team fell, 90-70, to the No. 16-ranked Fighting Scots from The College of Wooster on Wednesday night at Tomsich Arena. The Fighting Scots had five players ring up double-digit scoring totals in the North Coast Athletic Conference opening contest for both teams.

The win bumped Wooster's overall record to 5-0, while the loss dropped Kenyon to 0-6.

The Lords started out on the right foot, taking early leads of 5-1 and 10-6. Even when Wooster managed to gain its first lead, Kenyon fought back with the long-distance shooting of freshman guard Kamal Aubakirov, who connected on 3-of-5 three-point attempts and scored 11 points in his first 13 minutes of work.

With 10:35 left in the first half, one of those three-balls from Aubakirov tied the game at 18-18. Wooster then took the lead for good when Blake Blair answered with a three-pointer just 17 seconds later. The Lords, however, hung around for the next six minutes and didn't let the Fighting Scots build more than a six-point advantage.

The flow of the game then changed over the last four minutes of the half. Wooster went on a 12-0 run and made it to halftime with a 43-30 lead.

The Fighting Scots maintained that double-digit advantage throughout the remainder of the contest. The final 20-point difference was Wooster's largest lead. Kenyon twice chopped its deficit to ten early in the second frame, but never got any closer than that.

Aubakirov finished with a game-high 17 points on a 6-of-9 shooting performance that included a 5-of-8 showing from three-point territory. Elijah Davis, another freshman guard, scored 13 points, while senior guard Matt Shifrin added a dozen.

Davis logged 10 of his points in the second half, but that was offset by a tremendous shooting performance from the Fighting Scots, who poured in 16 buckets on their final 28 attempts (57.1 percent) and connected on 15 of their final 18 free throws (83.3 percent).

Kenyon junior Carter Powell racked up eight points and a game-high 14 rebounds, but the rest of the Lords combined for just 20 more rebounds, as Wooster won the glass, 48-34.

Sophomore forward Dontae Williams led the Fighting Scots and matched Aubakirov's output of 17 points. Trey Miller and Danyon Hempy both scored 14. Reece Dupler added a dozen and Keonn Scott scored 10.

Wooster consistently pushed the tempo and outscored Kenyon 18-4 in fast-break situations and 50-26 in the paint.