St. Louis, Mo. – The No. 22 Washington University in St. Louis men's basketball team beat No. 2 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), 87-86, in an overtime thriller on Sunday afternoon. The Bears overcame a 16-point deficit in the first half to improve to 14-4 on the season and 4-3 in UAA action.
 
With five seconds remaining in overtime, junior Hayden Doyle hit the game-winning jumper to give the Bears the win. WashU's defense came up big, contesting a last-second shot by CWRU's Anthony Mazzeo.
 
Sophomore Calvin Kapral led the Bears with a career-high 23 points to go with four rebounds and two blocks. Doyle netted 21 points, grabbed nine rebounds, dished out a game-high five assists and had two blocks. Senior Jabari Chiphe had his second-straight double-digit game with 13 points and four rebounds.
 
The Bears opened the game with a 6-0 run, starting with a layup from Doyle. Kapral followed with an offensive putback and Kyle Beedon laid one in.
 
CWRU netted back-to-back 3-pointers from Richie Manigault to tie things up, 6-6, with 17:03 on the clock and another 3-pointer from Manigault put the Spartans ahead 9-8.
 
First-year Jake Davis hit the front end of a pair of free throws and Chiphe had an offensive putback, giving WashU an 11-9 edge with 14:38 on the clock.
 
CWRU tied it at 11 and 13 and the Bears tied it at 16. The Spartans took a 21-19 lead at 11:37 on a Preston Maccoux shot from distance which started a 12-0 run for CWRU that ultimately gave the Spartans a 31-19 lead with 9:07 on the clock.
 
CWRU built the lead up to as many as 16 points, 37-21, with 6:13 remaining. The Bears scored six straight on a 3-pointer from Chiphe, a free throw from first-year Geoge Gale and a jumper from Kapral.
 
Still trailing double-digits in the final minute, sophomore Will Grudzinski drained a 3-pointer to make it a 42-35 game at halftime.
 
The Spartans scored four-straight to go back up by double-digits in the opening minutes of the second half. Grudzinski drilled a shot from distance at the 16:41 mark to bring it back down to an eight-point gap, 46-38.
 
After CWRU made it a double-digit game again, WashU went on a 7-0 run to cut the Spartans' lead down to 50-45. Doyle netted a longball, followed by a free throw from Kapral and a fastbreak 3-pointer from junior Kyle Beedon at the 11:31 mark.
 
CWRU continued to hold a slight advantage as the clock ticked down. Down seven, Doyle hit a jumper and then stole the ball on the following play. Kapral hit a pair of free throws after being fouled on the fastbreak to cut the gap to 52-49.
 
The Spartans remained ahead by as many as six through the next several minutes until back-to-back layups from Kapral made it a one-point, 59-58 game. The Bears went on to tie things up at 63 at the 5:46 mark.
 
Down three with 2:16 remaining, Davis put in a layup on a pass from Doyle and Kapral hit a free throw to tie things up at 75 apiece. Neither team was able to score in the final 2:06 of regulation, sending the game into overtime.
 
Overtime proved to tough, back-and-forth action with the game tied at 77, 79, 80 and 82.
 
Tied at 82 with 39 seconds on the clock, CWRU's Mazzeo put in a layup and the Spartans called a timeout, up by two. Out of the timeout, Beedon drilled a 3-pointer on a pass from sophomore Yogi Oliff with 28 seconds left to put the Bears up 85-84.
 
With 12 seconds on the clock CWRU's Sam Trunley hit a jumper to give the Spartans the one-point edge, but Doyle hit the game winner out of the timeout.
 
The Bears out-rebounded CWRU 38-27. After the Spartans shot close to 50 percent from 3-point range in the first half, WashU held them to just 12.5 percent in the second half and 0-for-3 in overtime. The Bears had 46 points in the paint and 21 points from their bench.
 
WashU hits the road next weekend for a Friday evening game at Carnegie Mellon at 7:30 p.m. ET before facing off with CWRU again on Sunday at 12 p.m. ET.