Evansville Purple Aces @ Western Illinois Leathernecks

5-1, 1-1 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Evansville EVAN	36	36	72
W Illinois WIU	28	27	55

Western Illinois LeathernecksW IllinoisWIU

2-4, 2-1 Home

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
bench
Justin PettyJ. Petty
Craig PhiferC. Phifer
Matt WebsterM. Webster
Eric OttensE. Ottens
Bradley StricklandB. Strickland
Fabien CalvezF. Calvez
Kyle AnslingerK. Anslinger
Andre BurtonA. Burton
Drew GoreD. Gore
Lucious WagnerL. Wagner
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	7	3-5	1-3	0-0	2	2	2	0	0	1	1	2
13	3	1-1	0-0	1-1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2
12	8	3-8	1-2	1-2	5	1	2	0	0	2	3	5
11	8	3-6	2-4	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	1
23	13	6-9	0-1	1-2	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	4
6	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
35	16	5-8	5-7	1-2	8	1	2	0	0	2	6	1
36	4	2-8	0-2	0-2	7	8	1	0	0	1	6	1
12	9	3-3	1-1	2-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
28	4	0-0	0-0	4-4	5	7	6	0	0	2	3	4
	72	26-49	10-21	10-15	39	21	18	0	0	10	29	22
		53%	48%	67%

Western Illinois Leathernecks

starters
bench
N'Vonta KentleN. Kentle
Eliz CepedaE. Cepeda
Eulis BaezE. Baez
Fred OgunsF. Oguns
Will LewisW. Lewis
Allen McFarlandA. McFarland
Kyle LasekK. Lasek
Troy OkesonT. Okeson
David JacksonD. Jackson
T.J. GrayT.J. Gray
Brian SchmitB. Schmit
Nathan KosterN. Koster
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	3
17	3	1-3	0-1	1-2	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
33	10	4-8	0-0	2-3	12	5	3	2	1	7	5	4
32	13	4-9	0-1	5-9	5	5	0	1	0	5	0	2
24	7	3-6	1-3	0-1	3	0	1	2	0	0	3	1
1	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	7	2-5	1-4	2-2	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	3
30	10	4-10	2-6	0-1	2	0	3	3	1	0	2	2
21	2	1-9	0-6	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	3	1-5	1-4	0-0	2	2	0	1	0	1	1	2
	55	20-57	5-26	10-18	30	14	11	10	3	14	16	19
		35%	19%	56%

Game Information

Macomb, IL

Referee:Eugene Crawford

Referee:Bill Neketis

Referee:David Gentile

NCAA Division I

Missouri Valley Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Belmont	16-4	-	26-6
Bradley	13-7	3	21-13
Illinois State	12-8	4	23-13
Murray State	12-8	4	20-13
UIC	12-8	4	19-16
Northern Iowa	11-9	5	23-13
Valparaiso	11-9	5	18-15
Southern Illinois	10-10	6	16-16
Drake	6-14	10	14-20
Indiana State	4-16	12	11-21
Evansville	3-17	13	7-25

Ohio Valley Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Tennessee State	15-5	-	23-10
Morehead State	15-5	-	20-13
Southeast Missouri State	14-6	1	20-13
UT Martin	13-7	2	22-11
SIU Edwardsville	12-8	3	19-13
Lindenwood	11-9	4	18-15
Little Rock	9-11	6	12-20
Tennessee Tech	8-12	7	13-18
Eastern Illinois	8-12	7	13-20
Southern Indiana	4-16	11	7-23
Western Illinois	1-19	14	5-26

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