Senior Alex Knight has had success when facing Grinnell over the last two years. However, the guard had never had a game quite like Saturday's performance in a 127-116 win for the Lake Forest men's basketball team against Grinnell.
 
Knight reset new career highs with 41 points and 17 rebounds, while adding eight assists and three steals. The senior came into Saturday's game averaging over 29 points per game in his last three appearances against Grinnell. Knight relentlessly worked his way to the rim, attempting zero three-pointers and making 78.3 percent of his shots (18-for-23).
 
Knight's 41 points tied the most points scored by any player in the Midwest conference this season. In addition, it tied for the fifth-most points scored in a single game in Lake Forest College history; it was the most points scored by a Forester since 2017.
 
Aiding Knight was junior wing Alex Forowycz who brought lethal outside shooting to help Lake Forest's (4-8, 1-2 MWC) spacing on offense. Forowycz hit six three-pointers and finished the game with 35 points. The win snapped a five-game losing streak for Lake Forest, as well as snapped a Grinnell eight-game winning streak coming into Saturday's game.
 
Against Grinnell's trapping and pressing style of defense, it was up to Knight and fellow senior guard Elijah Bull to break the pressure. Both utilized their quickness and ball handling to weave through the full-court press throughout the game and create for themselves and others. Bull had 10 points and set a new season high with nine assists.
 
Facing Grinnell's frenzied, up-tempo style of play, Lake Forest worked the ball inside early to find easy shots. Nineteen of the Foresters' 24 made field goals in the first half were layups, and Lake Forest shot a scalding 75 percent from the field in the first half.
 
The Foresters' two leading scorers in Knight and Forowycz did not take long to get going. Knight tallied 17 points, four rebounds and six assists in the first half, while Forowycz hit his first five field-goal attempts, including three made three-pointers, en route to a 21-point first half performance.
 
Grinnell entered Saturday's game as the leading scoring offense in the conference, due in part to their tempo and shot selection. Of Grinnell's 47 field-goal attempts in the first half, 33 of them were three-point attempts. Long shots produce long rebounds and Grinnell took advantage with 13 offensive rebounds in the first half, leading to 19 second-chance points and a tied score at intermission.
 
Knight and the Foresters were finally able to get some separation in the second half, thanks in part to a 13-1 run midway through the period that pushed the Lake Forest lead to 94-82. After that, Grinnell would be kept at an arm's length the remainder of the game, never reducing the deficit smaller than seven points.
 
Lake Forest will look for its second consecutive conference win when the Foresters return to action Wednesday on the road against Knox College.