ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The (RV) Washington University in St. Louis men's basketball team defeated Carnegie Mellon 73-64 on Friday evening in the Field House. With the win, the Bears are 14-7 overall with a 4-6 mark in UAA play.
 
Sophomore Connor May posted a 17-point, seven-rebound performance to lead the Bears' efforts against the Tartans. Junior Ryan Cohen and first-year Josh Kim each scored 12 points while senior Yogi Oliff had his fourth-straight game with double-digit rebounds, pulling down 10.
 
The game opened fairly evenly matched, with CMU taking a slight 10-4 lead at 15:46. Still down six at 15:09, May had an offensive put-back, followed by a layup from junior George Gale. Kim tied things up at 12 apiece with a layup at 13:00.
 
The score was tied again at 14 before the Tartans went on a 5-0 run for a 19-14 lead midway through the first half. A layup from Kim and a pair of free throws from May at 7:36 tied the game at 21 before May drained a 3-pointer to put WashU ahead 24-21 at 6:27.
 
Carnegie Mellon's Nikola Dimitrijevic hit a 3-pointer to tie things at 24-24 before the Bears scored four in a row on buckets from Gale and sophomore Anthony Przybilla for a 28-24 edge with just over three minutes remaining in the first half.
 
In the final 2:15 of the opening half, Oliff drilled a shot from distance and Kim followed with a jumper and an offensive put-back to bump the Bears' lead to 35-26 with less than a minute left. CMU scored the final bucket of the half, sending WashU into halftime with a 35-28 lead.
 
A jumper from May opened the second half and Przybilla scored off a Cohen steal to give WashU an 11-point, 39-28 lead at the 19:08 mark. Following a layup from CMU, WashU went on an 8-0 run, beginning with a free throw from Przybilla. Senior Calvin Kapral put in back-to-back buckets and Cohen closed out the run with a 3-pointer off a steal by Oliff for a 47-30 lead at 16:25.
 
The Bears maintained a double-digit lead until midway through the half when CMU put together an 8-0 run to cut it down to a nine-point, 56-47 game at 9:34. WashU extended it back to 11 before the Tartans closed it to a seven-point game, 60-53, at 7:21.
 
WashU scored the next 11 points on a free throw and layup from Cohen, four-straight free throws and a layup from May and two free throws from Kim for the 71-53 advantage with 3:38 remaining.
 
In the final minute, Carnegie Mellon hit a 3-pointer and a free throw for the eventual nine-point, 73-64 Bears' win.
 
WashU shot 27-for-59 (45.8%) with a 6-for-19 (31.6%) from 3-point range. The Bears out-rebounded Carnegie Mellon 39-30 and had 11 second-chance points.
 
The Bears return home on Sunday for a 2 p.m. game against Case Western Reserve University.
 
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