WALTHAM, Mass. – The No. 10 Washington University in St. Louis men's basketball team fell to Brandeis, 86-79, on Friday evening on the road. The Bears are now 15-4 with a 5-3 mark in UAA play.
 
Senior Hayden Doyle led all scorers with a career-high 29 points to go with six rebounds. First-year Connor May netted 13 points and grabbed since rebounds and junior Will Grudzinski scored 12 points with four rebounds and three assists.
 
Brandeis opened the game with five-straight points before Doyle hit a layup to put the Bears on the board at 16:58.
 
Down 7-2, WashU scored seven-straight to tie the game and take a lead. Senior Drake Kindsvater started the run with a pair of free throws, followed by a 3-pointer from May to knot the game. Doyle followed with a layup to take a 9-7 lead with 14:43 on the clock.
 
The Judges went on to score the next eight points to go up 15-9 at the 13:07 mark.
 
A layup from first-year Lleyton Thomas-Johnson made it a four-point game, 19-15, but Brandeis followed with a jumper and a pair of free throws for a 23-15 edge midway through the half.
 
The Bears went on a 9-2 run over the next several minutes, starting with layups from May and Doyle, followed by a 3-pointer from Doyle. Thomas-Johnson's offensive tip-in made it a one-point, 25-24 game with 6:21 on the clock.
 
Still up one, the Judges went on a 10-2 run to go ahead 40-31 with 1:17 remaining in the first half. Sophomore Ryan Cohen put in a layup with 48 seconds on the clock but Brandeis' Toby Harris netted the final points of the half to send the Bears into the break trailing 42-33.
 
The Judges started the second half off with a layup from Elias Rodl, which gave them their first double-digit lead, 44-33.
 
Down 12, the Bears netted eight-straight points, starting with a 3-pointer from sophomore George Gale. Doyle hit a shot from distance and Cohen put in a layup to cut the game down to four points, 47-43, with 17:25 on the clock.
 
Five points from Brandeis extended the Judges lead back to nine points but Grudzinski and May followed with back-to-back 3-pointers for a three-point, 52-49 game.
 
A 3-pointer from Grudzinski at the 14:10 mark and a jumper from Doyle at 13:40 tied the game at 54 apiece, the first tie since the beginning of the first half.
 
WashU took its first lead of the game with 13:04 remaining on a 3-pointer from sophomore Emmett Lawton. Grudzinski netted another 3-pointer less than one minute later and followed with another at 11:30 for a 63-56 WashU lead.
 
The Judges cut the lead down to one point with 6:40 remaining and eventually tied the game at 68 apiece with 5:18 on the clock. Brandeis scored the next four points for a 72-68 lead and extended it to nine points with seven-straight points, making it a 79-70 game with 2:01 remaining.
 
A layup from Doyle followed by a pair of free throws from Thomas-Johnson made it a four-point game, 80-76, with 1:11 on the clock.
 
Trailing three points with 22 seconds remaining, Brandeis hit four-straight free throws to end the game.
 
The Judges edged WashU 42-35 on the boards. The Bears shot 28-for-68 (41.2%) and 13-for-31 (41.9%) from 3-point range while going 10-for-10 (100%) from the free throw line.
 
WashU returns to action on Sunday with a game at No. 3 NYU at 2 p.m. ET.