CLEVELAND, Ohio – The No. 17 Washington University in St. Louis men's basketball team lost to No. 11 Case Western Reserve University, 74-59, on Sunday afternoon. The Bears are 14-6 overall and fall to 4-5 in UAA play.
 
Junior Hayden Doyle netted 15 points, grabbed five rebounds and had three steals while junior Kyle Beedon scored 14 points. Sophomore Calvin Kapral scored eight points with seven rebounds and sophomore Yogi Oliff put up seven points to go with a team-high eight rebounds.
 
The Spartans made an immediate statement, going up 14-0 in the first five minutes of the game and the Bears netted their first point at the 15:04 mark on a free throw from senior Jabari Chiphe.
 
Back-to-back 3-pointers from Doyle and Oliff closed the gap to single-digits, making it a 27-18 game at 5:50. A layup from first-year Emmett Lawton made it a seven-point, 27-20 game with just over five minutes remaining in the first half.
 
The Bears went on an 8-0 run, starting with a 3-pointer from Doyle at 4:21. Beedon followed with a longball and Oliff stole the ball and laid it in for a two-point, 30-28 game with 1:30 on the clock.
 
The teams traded baskets and CWRU went into halftime with a 34-30 edge.
 
The Spartans scored the first basket of the second half but a layup and a pair of free throws from Kapral made it a two-point, 36-34 game.
 
Back-to-back 3-pointers from the Spartans' Anthony Mazzeo and Sam Trunley put CWRU ahead 46-36 with 15:25 on the clock.
 
The Bears cut it to seven points on a 3-pointer from Lawton but the Spartans scored the next eight points to go up by 15, 56-41, midway through the half.
 
Four-straight free throws from Doyle made it a single-digit, 60-51 game with 4:49 remaining and Doyle put in a dunk off a Chiphe steal to close it to eight points, 64-56, at the 1:36 mark.
 
Down eight with 51 seconds left, the Bears were forced to foul, leading to eight made free throws by the Spartans and the 74-59 loss for WashU.
 
The Bears hit the road again next week for a Friday evening contest at Emory at 7:30 p.m. ET followed by a 12 p.m. ET game at Rochester on Sunday.