WAUKESHA, Wis. – The No. 4 Washington University in St. Louis men's basketball team defeated Carroll 81-66 on the road on Saturday afternoon. The Bears are 4-0 on the year.
 
Senior Hayden Doyle led the scoring efforts for WashU, netting 25 points. Senior Drake Kindsvater recorded a double-double of 12 points and 14 rebounds while first-year Connor May hit a new career high of 15 points to go with seven rebounds. Junior center Calvin Kapral also reached double-digits with 11 points.
 
Kapral netted the first points of the game on a pass from junior Yogi Oliff. After Carroll put up its first points, Doyle and Kapral put in buckets for a 6-2 lead at the 17:40 mark.
 
The Pioneers hit back-to-back 3-pointers to take a 10-2 lead, its first on the Bears. The game went on to be tied at 10 and 13 before Carroll took another slight lead with a layup from Eckahelo Simpson.

After trailing 17-16, the Bears went on a 7-0 run to open up a 24-17 lead. Sophomore George Gale started it off with a 3-pointer on a pass from Oliff. May hit back-to-back layups and Gale hit the backend of a pair of free throws to conclude the run.
 
Doyle netted a pair of jumpers to extend the Bears' lead to 28-19 with 7:54 remaining in the first half. WashU took its first double-digit lead of the game at the 5:57 mark as Doyle hit a fastbreak 3-pointer to make it a 34-24 game.
 
A free throw each from Kindsvater and Gale extended the lead to 36-24 and the teams went on to exchange buckets over the next few minutes. An and-one play from Carroll's Lamar Smith made it a single-digit game, 42-33, with 1:25 left in the first half.
 
A jumper at the buzzer from junior Will Grudzinski sent the Bears into halftime with a 46-35 lead over Carroll.
 
WashU opened the second half with a steal from Oliff and a jumper from Doyle, followed by a dunk from Grudzinski to put the Bears up 15, 50-35.
 
After Carroll cut it the 11, the Bears went on a 7-0 run, starting with a layup from Doyle. Kindsvater grabbed a defensive rebound and went the other way to score a fastbreak layup and then stole the ball and dished it to Oliff, who was fouled and hit the ensuing free throw. May concluded the run, putting WashU up 60-40, which would be the Bears' largest lead of the game.
 
With 4:32 remaining, Carroll went on an 8-0 run to cut the Bears' lead down to 11 points, 77-66. WashU closed out the game with the final four points on an offensive putback from Kindsvater and a pair of free throws from May.
 
The Bears shot 34-for-54 (63.0%) and a 5-for-11 mark (45.5%) from 3-point range. WashU out-rebounded Carroll 38-19.
 
WashU hits the road next weekend for the Rhodes Classic, starting with a 1 p.m. game on Saturday against Colorado College, followed by a 4 p.m. game against Rhodes on Sunday.