ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The No. 18 Washington University in St. Louis men's basketball team celebrated senior day and the final regular-season home game of the year with a 85-75 win over No. 7 Emory on Sunday afternoon.
 
In fitting fashion, seniors Hayden Doyle and Drake Kindsvater each posted double-doubles on senior day. Doyle scored 22 points, pulled down 10 rebounds and had five assists while Kindsvater netted 17 points to go with 11 boards. Kindsvater reached 1,000 career points as well, now sitting at 1,002 points ahead of the final weekend of the regular season.
 
Sophomore Ryan Cohen scored 15 points and first-year Connor May finished with 13 points and seven rebounds in the win.
 
Each team opened up with a 3-pointer, as Doyle netted one at 19:38 to tie the game at three apiece. The Bears went on to score the next six points, starting with a 3-pointer from Cohen and an and-one play from Kindsvater to give the Bears a 9-3 edge.
 
Emory scored five-straight to make it a one-point game and ultimately tied the game at 10-10.
 
The Bears went on an 8-0 run, starting with a 3-pointer from junior Will Grudzinski, followed by a pair of free throws from May and a jumper from Doyle for the 17-10 lead at 11:25.
 
Over the next four minutes, Emory outscored the Bears 8-1, taking a lead with 7:03 on the clock on a layup from Jair Knight, putting WashU behind 22-21.
 
WashU responded with a 9-0 run, starting with a layup from Doyle, followed by a pair of free throws from Kindsvater. May hit a layup and followed with a 3-pointer for a 30-22 lead at 4:56.
 
The Bears and Eagles exchanged baskets over the next two minutes and a 3-pointer from Cohen at 2:28 gave WashU its largest lead of the first half, nine points, making it 35-26 with 2:28 on the clock.
 
Following an Emory bucket, a layup from Kindsvater put the Bears ahead by nine again, 39-30, with 55 seconds left. A jumper from Emory's Ben Pearce with 32 seconds on the clock sent the Bears into halftime with a 39-32 lead.
 
Junior Calvin Kapral opened the second half with a layup on a pass from Doyle before Emory scored eight-straight points to make it a 41-40 game with 18:15 on the clock.
 
Doyle answered with a 3-pointer and the Bears went on to build their lead back up to nine points, 57-48, following a 3-pointer from sophomore Jake Davis at 14:23.
 
The Eagles closed the gap to five points at 12:49 but five points in a row from the Bears, starting with a 3-pointer from Cohen and a pair of free throws from Doyle, put WashU ahead by double-digits for the first time in the game.
 
The teams exchanged baskets for the next couple of minutes until layups from Davis and May bumped the Bears lead to 68-55 with 8:32 remaining.
 
A layup from Emory's Logan Shanahan brought the Bears' lead back to single-digits. Kindsvater followed with the front end of a pair of free throws and Doyle netted a 3-pointer for a 13-point, 74-61 lead with 6:15 remaining.
 
Emory scored five points in a row to cut it 74-65 with 4:30 on the clock. The Bears scored the next five on an offensive tipin from sophomore George Gale, followed by a 3-pointer from Doyle.
 
As the clock ticked down, the Eagles would come within nine points with 1:11 on the clock, but the Bears, but the Bears put in six free throws in the final minute en route to the double-digit win.
 
The Bears went 25-for-58 (43.1%) and an impressive 13-for-24 (54.2%) from 3-point range. As a team, WashU edged the Eagles 48-39 on the boards.

WashU closes out the regular-season next weekend with a Saturday game at Chicago at 1 p.m.