Well, well, Wells. In the last 4:01 of Monday night’s 60-56 Huskie back-and-forth victory over the Loyola Ramblers, 6-7 center Andrew Wells out-leaped Ramblers and out-froze Rambler coach Will Rey with two key boards and four of the last six Huskie points.

The 202-pound junior broke a 50-50 tie with a put-back of his own hook shot. After Huskie guard Donald Whiteside hit a jumper from the key for the winning two, Wells (14 points, seven rebounds) pulled down a Rambler miss and was put on the foul line immediately.

So the Huskies (9-7) went to the Wells one last time. After Huskie coach Jim Molinari called a time-out to set his last-second defense, Rey called one just for Wells, who then sank both shots to ice the game.

“No pressure. Gave me time to rest,” Wells said with a smile after the game. “I enjoyed being in that position, actually, to let them know there was no denying us tonight.” No smile that time.

Deny was just what the Ramblers did for the first 4:07 of the game as they broke out to a 9-0 lead. Wells scored the next four before Rambler center Doug Borders put the visitors up by seven. That was the only Rambler basket of the half not scored by either 6-4 guard Keir Rogers (18 points for the game) or 6-3 guard Keith Gailes (30—game high).

For the next 6:31, the Ramblers turned over the ball and the Huskies overturned the lead. Starting with a Stacy Arrington three-point play, the Huskies treated the 3,058 faithful to something they won’t see again soon—a 22-point streak.

The crowd came to life with a Donnell Thomas break-away D-dunk in the middle of the run and stayed alive as Loyola airballed, follwed by a Whiteside-to-Wells alley-oop layup. Again a Rey timeout failed to rattle the Huskies as they scored 10 before the timeout and 12 after it.

Loyola’s Rogers finally ended the streak with a hook shot and he and Gailes scored nine of the half’s last 11 points to close the gap to 28-20 Huskies.

The second half was the same for Loyola scoring. Rambler center Rob Mizera put in a rebound layup at 18:56, two free throws at 4:35 and a layup at 2:50. Every other point came from Rogers’ or Gailes’ hands. The pair had averaged 39.1 of the Ramblers’ 63 points a game.

Three jumpers from Arrington and one from Thomas plus a basket from Antwon Harmon and two Whiteside free throws held the Ramblers off until a 9-0 Loyola ramble gave them the lead at 9:18. From then until Wells’ free throws, the teams were never more than a basket apart.

Thomas, who led the Huskies with 15, made six of seven from the stripe in the last seven minutes and as a team, the Huskies shot a season-best 87 percent (14-16).

“Since I took over the free throw shooting from my assistants, we have improved,” Molinari said jokingly.

Molinari could joke after a win in which the Huskies’ inside-outside men, Thomas and Whiteside, were a combined 6 for 23 from the floor.

“It’s a credit to the rest of the team and it’s a credit to them because I told them they’re gonna be set to stop you. What you’ve got to do is keep playing. That’s what Donnell did with 15 rebounds and that’s what Donald did with running the offense.”