Wabash used an 11-0 run midway through the first half to race out to a 20-point lead over DePauw in Greencastle Wednesday evening on the way to a 74-48 victory over the host Tigers in North Coast Athletic Conference basketball action.
 
The win was the largest by a Wabash (3-4, 2-0 NCAC) team at Neal Fieldhouse since the Little Giants earned a 57-40 victory in Greencastle on December 1, 2010. The 2024-25 squad nearly matched the 30-point margin with an 89-59 win on February 24, 1981.  
 
Josh Whack gave the Wabash the early lead it would never relinquish. DePauw (2-5, 0-1 NCAC) evened the score with a layup inside before Robert Sorensen and Gavin Schippert scored on back-to-back possessions to put the Little Giants up 6-2.
 
Sorensen caught fire in his first Wabash-DePauw rivalry appearance. The freshman guard nailed a three-pointer and a pull-up jumper to maintain a six-point lead at 12-6 with 13:46 remaining in the opening half. Sorensen finished with a team-high 21 points on 8-of-12 shooting from the field. He finished 5-of-7 from three-point range and had two steals in the victory.
 
Sorensen added another three to make it 15-6 with 12:48 on the clock. The Little Giants exploded for four consecutive baskets, including three three-pointers, over the next two minutes to push the lead to 20 points. Nate Matelic started the scoring with the first three-pointer, followed by a triple from Rich Brooks. Brooks added another trey to make it a 24-6 contest, then scored on a driving layup after a Tigers timeout for a 26-6 advantage at the midway point of the period.
 
The Little Giants pushed the lead to as many as 24 points at 33-9 on a Matelic jumper 4:59 remaining in the first period before taking a 22-point lead into the locker room at 43-21.
 
Wabash struggled to find a basket in the first four minutes of the second half, allowing the Tigers to cut the advantage to 43-30. Sorensen ended the drought with a three-pointer from the left wing for his third triple and 13^th point of the game. DePauw trimmed the advantage to 15 points with 13:33 remaining in the contest, but a three-pointer from Vinny Buccilla and a layup basket by Noah Hupmann off an assist from Buccilla stretched the lead back to 20 points.
 
The Tigers never got closer than 17 points before Wabash finished off the home team, taking a 27-point lead with 5:29 left to play on another Matelic three-pointer.
 
Wabash made a season-high 12 three-pointers, finishing 12 of 25 from beyond the arc for 48 percent shooting. The Little Giants made 29 of 57 total shots in the game (50.9 percent) and hit four of six free throw attempts. Wabash also gave out a season-best 18 assists and committed only five turnovers in the game.
 
Buccilla finished with 15 points and gave out three assists with two steals. Matelic added 12 points and grabbed eight boards. Brooks scored eight points, and Schippert added seven points and eight rebounds.
 
The Little Giants held DePauw to 16 of 56 from the field (28.6 percent) and 3 of 16 from three-point range (18.8 percent). The Tigers hit only 13 of 23 free throw tries (56.5 percent) and committed six turnovers. Sam Jacobs led DePauw with 18 points on a 5-of-13 shooting effort.
 
Wabash continues its conference road swing with a game Saturday at Oberlin at 1 p.m.