Sophomore forward Connor May, the leading scorer on the WashU men’s basketball team in the 2025-26 season, is transferring to Division I Yale University.

The loss ends WashU’s season with a 20-8 record, capping off the program’s fourth straight 20-win season and fifth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. 

The No. 20 WashU men’s basketball team is headed to the Division III Sweet 16 for the third season in a row. On Friday, March 6, the Bears showed they can win games in multiple ways, advancing via a blowout win over Transylvania University featuring a balanced scoring performance in the opening round. The next night, Saturday, March 7, the Bears pulled out a tight 74-71 win over No. 21 University of Wisconsin–Whitewater led by sophomore forward Connor May’s 29 points to punch a Sweet 16 ticket.

The Bears will open their tournament campaign against Transylvania University, the champions of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, on Friday, March 6, at the Field House.

After five consecutive wins, the Bears finished the regular season with an 18-7 record and third in the University Athletic Association (UAA).

Their biggest victory so far came at the end of January, as they upset No.1 Emory University at home, and have won five of their last seven games. Currently, WashU is third in the UAA, and with only one game left in the regular season, each contest is vital to the Bears’ postseason push.

With the pair of victories, WashU improved to 5-6 in conference play, the fifth-best mark in the elite eight-team division. The Bears — ranked 21st in the NCAA Net Power Index, the official metric used by the NCAA to determine postseason spots —  are still on the right side of the Division III bubble with three games left to play. 

Greenfield taught at WashU School of Law for 53 years before retiring in 2023, but he did not start attending basketball games until 2005. A casual follower of WashU sports before, he first convinced Halpern to attend a game with a small incentive.

After sweeping No. 5 Emory University and the University of Rochester at home the weekend prior, the WashU men’s basketball team struggled on the road, where they suffered consecutive late-game losses in a gut-wrenching weekend away from home.

And if beating the best team in the nation at home wasn’t energizing enough, the game was also dedicated to former WashU basketball player Justin Hardy, who tragically passed away after a fight with cancer during his senior season in 2022.