Northern Illinois Huskies @ Buffalo Bulls

MAC TOURNAMENT

11-17, 7-11 MAC

Final

	1	2	T
N Illinois NIU	30	36	66
Buffalo BUF	34	39	73

Buffalo BullsBuffaloBUF

20-8, 11-7 MAC

Northern Illinois Huskies

starters
bench
Todd PetersonT. Peterson
Johnathan ByrdJ. Byrd
James HughesJ. Hughes
Bryson McKenzieB. McKenzie
Cory SimsC. Sims
Zach PancratzZ. Pancratz
Mike McKinneyM. McKinney
Anthony MaestranziA. Maestranzi
Shatone PowersS. Powers
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
33	9	2-9	2-3	3-3	10	1	2	1	0	7	3	4
19	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	3	0	2	0	0	2	1	4
24	12	6-10	0-0	0-0	3	0	2	0	5	1	2	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	16	6-13	3-4	1-3	5	5	4	1	0	1	4	4
17	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	3	1	1	0	0	2	1	2
33	15	6-12	0-2	3-4	8	3	3	0	1	3	5	2
32	5	2-9	1-4	0-0	4	3	3	1	0	2	2	5
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	66	26-61	7-16	7-10	36	13	17	3	6	18	18	21
		43%	44%	70%

Buffalo Bulls

starters
bench
Parnell SmithP. Smith
Mark BortzM. Bortz
Mario JordanM. Jordan
Daniel GilbertD. Gilbert
Yassin IdbihiY. Idbihi
Wallace HallW. Hall
Roderick MiddletonR. Middleton
Calvin CageC. Cage
Turner BattleT. Battle
Jason BirdJ. Bird
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
19	4	1-4	0-1	2-2	5	0	1	0	0	2	3	1
12	5	2-6	0-0	1-1	5	1	0	0	1	3	2	1
21	7	2-3	0-0	3-4	2	2	2	0	1	2	0	3
30	15	5-7	2-3	3-4	8	0	2	3	0	5	3	4
28	8	4-10	0-2	0-0	6	1	2	0	3	3	3	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
23	10	2-4	1-3	5-8	6	1	1	1	0	1	5	2
19	7	3-7	1-5	0-0	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	0
30	13	4-12	1-6	4-6	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2
15	4	2-6	0-2	0-0	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	0
	73	25-59	5-22	18-25	38	9	10	9	5	18	20	15
		42%	23%	72%

Game Information

Buffalo, NY

Referee:Dan Fouser

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Lamont Simpson

NCAA Division I

Mid-American Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Miami (OH)	18-0	-	32-2
Akron	17-1	1	29-6
Kent State	14-4	4	24-10
Toledo	11-7	7	19-15
Bowling Green	9-9	9	18-14
Ohio	9-9	9	15-17
Buffalo	7-11	11	17-15
Massachusetts	7-11	11	17-16
Ball State	7-11	11	12-19
Central Michigan	6-12	12	10-21
Western Michigan	4-14	14	10-21
Eastern Michigan	4-14	14	10-21
Northern Illinois	4-14	14	9-21

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