Kent State Golden Flashes @ Northern Illinois Huskies

11-5, 2-1 MAC

Final/OT

	1	2	OT	T
Kent State KENT	30	28	15	73
N Illinois NIU	30	28	6	64

Northern Illinois HuskiesN IllinoisNIU

7-8, 1-2 MAC

Kent State Golden Flashes

starters
Mark HennigerM. Henniger#13
Christopher OrtizC. Ortiz#4
Devareaux ManleyD. Manley#0
Kris BrewerK. Brewer#1
Derek JacksonD. Jackson#23
bench
Marquiez LawrenceM. Lawrence#20
Darren GoodsonD. Goodson#42
Melvin TabbM. Tabb#32
Khaliq SpicerK. Spicer#21
Kellon ThomasK. Thomas#2
K.K. SimmonsK.K. Simmons#14
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	5	1-4	0-0	3-4	6	0	3	1	1	2	4	4
19	2	1-7	0-3	0-2	8	0	1	0	2	4	4	3
31	10	2-4	2-3	4-5	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1
39	25	6-13	3-7	10-12	3	1	1	3	0	0	3	1
37	14	5-10	3-6	1-2	5	4	1	2	0	2	3	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
8	4	1-3	1-3	1-4	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	5
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
24	4	1-3	0-0	2-3	5	0	0	1	2	0	5	3
24	8	2-5	1-3	3-4	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	4
12	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	73	19-51	10-27	25-38	35	11	10	7	5	10	25	28
		37%	37%	66%

Northern Illinois Huskies

starters
Darrell BowieD. Bowie#10
Jordan ThreloffJ. Threloff#42
Aksel BolinA. Bolin#32
Aaric ArmsteadA. Armstead#23
Travon BakerT. Baker#5
bench
Kevin H. GrayK. Gray#13
Pete RakocevicP. Rakocevic#0
J.J. John CravattaJ.J. Cravatta #15
Daveon BallsD. Balls#11
Aaron ArmsteadA. Armstead#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
28	8	4-8	0-0	0-2	8	1	7	0	1	2	6	1
27	2	0-2	0-0	2-2	7	0	2	0	0	2	5	4
37	8	1-3	1-3	5-8	5	2	0	1	0	0	5	2
35	12	2-6	0-1	8-13	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3
36	13	3-11	2-6	5-8	1	2	3	2	0	1	0	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
12	3	1-2	0-0	1-2	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	2
11	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	1	0-2	0-0	1-2	4	0	1	1	0	2	2	1
24	15	4-8	2-2	5-6	10	0	2	0	0	2	8	4
	64	16-44	5-12	27-43	42	5	18	4	2	13	29	22
		36%	42%	63%

Game Information

Dekalb, IL

Referee:John Gaffney

Referee:Chuck Bullock

Referee:Brett Gearhart

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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