Przybilla Pours in Profession-Excessive 35 Factors As No. 5 WashU Males’s Basketball Beats Rhodes

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The No. 5 Washington University in St. Louis males’s basketball workforce defeated Rhodes 94-78 within the second sport of the All-Academic Classic on Sunday afternoon. With the win, the Bears enhance to 6-0 on the season.
 
Sophomore Anthony Przybilla poured in a career-high 35 factors towards the Lynx, taking pictures 14-for-17 from the sector and 3-for-3 from 3-point vary. This marks the second sport in a row that he hit a brand new profession excessive, as he scored 16 yesterday towards Colorado College.
 
Sophomore Connor May recorded a double-double, scoring 21 factors and flattening 13 boards to go together with three assists and two steals. Junior Ryan Cohen had 9 factors, and junior Jake Davis scored eight factors. Senior Yogi Oliff had six factors, six rebounds, and 5 assists.
 
Przybilla made it a fast 4-0 sport with back-to-back buckets. After two Rhodes baskets, he hit a turnaround jumper for a 6-4 sport at 17:10. May scored on a drive, and just below two minutes later, the Lynx made it an 8-8 sport on the 14:44 mark.
 
A pair of free throws from Rhodes gave the Lynx a 10-8 lead, and a 3-pointer prolonged that to 13-8 with 13:52 on the clock.
 
Sophomore Lleyton Thomas-Johnson and Oliff put in back-to-back layups to make it a one-point, 13-12 sport.
 
The Lynx continued to carry a several-point lead over the Bears till the 7:16 mark. With 9:23 left within the first half, Davis made a layup that began an 8-0 run for WashU. First-year Josh Kim made a layup earlier than May had back-to-back buckets to place WashU forward 25-24.
 
Rhodes hit a 3-pointer, however Przybilla tied issues up at 27 with a turnaround jumper. Davis adopted with a layup to provide the Bears the sting, and WashU finally went on a 16-3 run to shut out the rest of the primary half.
 
After Davis’ layup, Przybilla drove one in, and Cohen hit the entrance finish of a pair of free throws. Following two Rhodes free throws, Przybilla hit a turnaround jumper, securing a brand new profession excessive for the second day in a row.
 
The Lynx scored their remaining factors of the half on the 2:23 mark. Cohen then sank a pair of free throws, and Davis, Przybilla, and May every made a layup for a 42-31 lead on the half.
 
Senior Calvin Kapral scored the primary basket of the second half, placing WashU forward by 13 factors, 44-31.
 
Rhodes scored 5 straight factors to carry WashU’s lead again to single digits, 46-38, with 17:23 on the clock.
 
Up 49-40 on the 16:09 mark, May hit a 3-pointer, and senior Will Grudzinski drained a shot from distance to make it a 15-point, 55-40 sport at 15:34.
 
A 3-pointer from the Lynx’s Trevor Lombard minimize it again right down to 12 factors, however May hit a pair of free throws, Davis made a layup, and Przybilla scored to increase the result in 18 factors, 61-43, at 13:38.
 
The Bears went over the 20-point mark after a 3-pointer from Cohen, an and-one play from May, and a layup from Kim, giving WashU a 24-point, 69-45 benefit on the 12:11 mark.
 
As the clock ticked down, Rhodes closed the deficit to fifteen with 7:17 on the clock, following a 3-pointer from Ryan Scott and a layup from Phil Dotson, however that was the closest the Lynx would come.
 
As a workforce, the Bears shot 37-for-58 (63.8%) from the sector and 8-for-17 (47.1%) from 3-point vary. WashU edged Rhodes 35-27 on the boards.
 
The Bears are again at residence subsequent Saturday, December 6, with a 3 p.m. sport towards Webster.
 
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