ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The No. 4 Washington University in St. Louis men's basketball team defeated Webster 92-66 in a midweek clash on Tuesday evening. The win marks head coach Pat Juckem's 300^th career win.
 
Junior Calvin Kapral led all scorers with 19 points including 10 in the first half as well as five rebounds. Sophomore Ryan Cohen scored a career-high 15 points in 12 minutes of play, going 5-for-6 from 3-point range. Senior Drake Kindsvater scored 14 points, grabbed six boards and dished out six assists. Junior Yogi Oliff had seven assists in the win.
 
In the opening minutes of the first half, the Bears and Gorloks traded points with Webster leading by a handful of points several times. At the 13:20 mark, down two points, the Bears began what turned into a 15-0 run to take a sizable lead.
 
Cohen netted a 3-pointer to begin the run and first-year Connor May hit a hook shot. Kapral put in a layup on a pass from junior Will Grudzinski to give the Bears a five-point cushion and May followed with a 3-pointer.
 
A 3-pointer from senior Hayden Doyle at the 9:02 mark gave the Bears a double-digit lead and Kapral scored on a pass from Oliff to conclude the run with WashU up 25-12.
 
The Bears continued to put in buckets, including a layup from Kindsvater and a 3-pointer from sophomore George Gale for 30-16 lead with just over seven minutes remaining.
 
With an 18-point lead, Doyle netted a turn-around jumper and Grudzinski drilled a shot from distance after grabbing a defensive rebound, giving the Bears at 43-20 lead.
 
As the first-half clock ticked down, Kapral put in a layup on an assist from Kindsvater, hitting double-digits with 10 points. With 1:35 left, sophomore Emmett Lawton stole the ball and netted a fast break layup. Webster scored the final bucket of the half, sending the Bears into the locker room with a 47-23 lead.
 
Kapral scored back-to-back buckets for the Bears to open up the second half, followed by a jumper from Oliff and a 3-pointer from Grudzinski to make it a 28-point, 56-28 game.
 
With 14:47 on the clock, May netted a 3-pointer and Cohen drilled a shot from distance to put the Bears up by 31, 67-36.
 
A layup from Webster's Sebastian Reed and a 3-pointer from Jemard Sykes II brought the gap back down to 26 points.
 
Midway through the second half, Kapral netted a pair of free throws and put in a layup following a Cohen Steal. Another 3-pointer from Cohen at the 9:13 mark put WashU up 78-43.
 
Sophomore Lucas Vogel netted a 3-pointer and then hit a jumper at the 7:17 mark for a 39-point, 85-46 game.
 
In the closing minutes of the game, first-year Lleyton Thomas-Johnson netted a pair of free throws and slammed one home with 3:14 remaining.
 
The Gorloks scored nine-straight points on a 3-pointer from Cooper Kelley as well as a jumper and two pairs of free throws from Amarien Mohair.
 
First-year Yusuf Cisse scored the final Bears' points of the game with 47 seconds on the clock.
 
As a team, WashU was an impressive 14-for-30 (46.7%) from 3-point range and 80 percent from the free throw line. The Bear out-rebounded Webster 42-28.
 
WashU hits the road this weekend for a 2 p.m. game on Saturday at Carroll. The Bears are on  the road again next weekend for the Rhodes Classic with games against Colorado College and Rhodes before returning home Dec. 6-7 for the 40^th Annual Lopata Classic.