Illinois Fighting Illini @ Northwestern Wildcats

18-8, 6-5 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Illinois ILL	31	27	58
Northwestern NU	23	20	43

Northwestern WildcatsNorthwesternNU

11-12, 1-9 Big Ten

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Brian RandleB. Randle
Warren CarterW. Carter
Shaun PruittS. Pruitt
Trent MeachamT. Meacham
Rich McBrideR. McBride
bench
C.J. JacksonC.J. Jackson
Marcus ArnoldM. Arnold
Brian CarlwellB. Carlwell
Chris HicksC. Hicks
Jamar SmithJ. Smith
Chester FrazierC. Frazier
Calvin BrockC. Brock
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
17	3	1-3	1-1	0-1	4	2	0	0	0	2	2	4
36	17	7-10	1-2	2-2	8	3	2	1	1	3	5	2
33	13	5-10	0-0	3-4	15	0	2	0	0	7	8	1
14	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	3	2	2	1	0	0	3	1
37	15	5-11	5-11	0-0	2	6	0	0	0	0	2	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	2	1-6	0-3	0-0	3	3	0	0	0	2	1	1
19	6	2-4	2-2	0-0	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	2
18	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	4	2	1	0	0	2	2	1
	58	22-51	9-22	5-7	40	18	11	2	1	16	24	14
		43%	41%	71%

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Kevin CobleK. Coble
Jeff RyanJ. Ryan
Vince ScottV. Scott
Tim DoyleT. Doyle
Jason OkrzesikJ. Okrzesik
bench
Jean-Marc MelchiorJ. Melchior
Patrick HoulihanP. Houlihan
Matt StegerM. Steger
Sterling WilliamsS. Williams
Ivan TolicI. Tolic
Jeremy NashJ. Nash
Craig MooreC. Moore
Joe KennedyJ. Kennedy
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
34	9	4-9	1-3	0-0	3	0	0	2	1	0	3	1
31	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	1
20	0	0-7	0-4	0-0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
39	16	5-8	0-1	6-8	3	5	6	3	0	0	3	4
23	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	2	1	0	0	1	0	2	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
14	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	2	1-4	0-3	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	3
12	0	0-3	0-3	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	43	17-42	3-18	6-8	16	12	7	7	3	2	14	13
		40%	17%	75%

Game Information

Evanston, IL

Referee:Steve Welmer

Referee:Dan Chrisman

Referee:Warren Evans

NCAA Division I

Big Ten Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Michigan	19-1	-	37-3
Nebraska	15-5	4	28-7
Michigan State	15-5	4	27-8
Illinois	15-5	4	28-9
Wisconsin	14-6	5	24-11
Purdue	13-7	6	30-9
UCLA	13-7	6	24-12
Ohio State	12-8	7	21-13
Iowa	10-10	9	24-13
Indiana	9-11	10	18-14
Minnesota	8-12	11	15-18
USC	7-13	12	18-14
Washington	7-13	12	16-17
Rutgers	6-14	13	14-20
Northwestern	5-15	14	15-19
Oregon	5-15	14	12-20
Maryland	4-16	15	12-21
Penn State	3-17	16	12-20

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