Indiana Wesleyan junior Kyle Mangas scored his 2000th point Saturday in a win over Bethel. (Photo provided by IWU Sports Information)

MARION – Indiana Wesleyan men’s basketball collected their sixth top-25 win Saturday, sinking the Pilots of Bethel University, 107-102. The Wildcats handed No. 9 Bethel their first loss of the season while holding Bethel’s number two scorer Grant Gelon (20ppg) to just 12 points.

Junior Kyle Mangas collected his 2,000th career point in the contest, becoming the seventh player in program history to score at least 2,000 points. The Warsaw, Indiana product connected on the historic milestone in the second half from the free-throw line. He finished the game with 39 points bringing his career points total to 2,025.

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• Mangas is just the seventh member of the 2,000 point club, joining Perry Frank (2,452 points), Durand ‘Speedy’ Walker (2,409 points), Lane Mahurin (2,288 points), Jordan Weidner (2,224 points), Aaron Brothers (2,013 points), and Bob Peters (2,004 points).
• Mangas ranks fifth all-time in Wildcat scoring, and 49th when it comes to the Crossroads League.
• Mangas is on pace to have his best season yet, averaging 26.1 points-per-game, 4.3 assists per game, and 5.7 rebounds per game. He is shooting a whopping 85% from the free-throw line, seven percent better than his career average. For his career, Mangas boasts a 54 percent field goal percentage while shooting 40 percent from deep.