UC Riverside Highlanders @ Northern Illinois Huskies

7-6, 1-5 Away

Final/OT

	1	2	OT	T
UC Riverside UCR	21	37	9	67
N Illinois NIU	30	28	14	72

Northern Illinois HuskiesN IllinoisNIU

6-5, 6-0 Home

UC Riverside Highlanders

starters
Alex LarssonA. Larsson#21
Steven ThorntonS. Thornton#13
Taylor JohnsT. Johns#5
Steven Jerome JonesS. Jones#10
Jaylen BlandJ. Bland#1
bench
Cheick ThieroC. Thiero#20
Robert BoezemanR. Boezeman#12
Colin GruberC. Gruber#22
Nick GruningerN. Gruninger#0
Austin Dylan QuickA. Quick#35
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
25	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	7	1	2	0	0	2	5	5
20	7	3-6	1-4	0-0	2	3	3	0	0	0	2	5
43	19	8-11	1-2	2-5	7	2	7	0	3	2	5	2
39	14	4-7	2-4	4-4	3	3	4	1	0	0	3	4
38	13	5-13	3-8	0-0	5	1	2	1	0	1	4	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	5
4	3	1-4	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
23	5	1-5	1-4	2-2	3	4	1	0	0	0	3	2
21	2	1-4	0-1	0-0	3	2	3	2	0	3	0	4
	67	25-55	9-24	8-11	37	16	24	5	3	11	26	30
		45%	38%	73%

Northern Illinois Huskies

starters
Darrell BowieD. Bowie#10
Jordan ThreloffJ. Threloff#52
Aaric ArmsteadA. Armstead#23
Michael OrrisM. Orris#55
Anthony JohnsonA. Johnson#33
bench
Keith T. GrayK. Gray#21
Marin MaricM. Maric#34
Pete RakocevicP. Rakocevic#0
Travon BakerT. Baker#5
Aaron ArmsteadA. Armstead#2
Chuks IroegbuC. Iroegbu#11
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	6	1-5	0-2	4-4	4	0	3	3	1	3	1	1
24	6	1-3	0-0	4-5	5	1	4	2	0	2	3	0
28	3	1-5	0-1	1-2	3	0	0	2	0	0	3	1
25	4	2-7	0-2	0-0	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	4
25	18	4-9	3-4	7-9	5	0	1	0	0	1	4	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	4	1-1	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
15	8	4-4	0-0	0-2	2	0	1	0	1	2	0	1
21	3	1-3	0-1	1-2	4	1	3	0	1	0	4	2
32	15	3-9	3-6	6-7	2	4	0	1	0	0	2	1
19	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	3
14	3	1-2	0-1	1-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	72	20-51	6-18	26-35	31	8	14	10	3	10	21	17
		39%	33%	74%

Game Information

Dekalb, IL

ESPN3

Referee:David Cronin

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Chris Beaver

NCAA Division I

Big West Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
UC Irvine	15-5	-	23-12
Hawai'i	14-6	1	24-9
UC San Diego	12-8	3	23-11
Cal State Northridge	12-8	3	20-14
Cal State Fullerton	12-8	3	18-16
UC Davis	11-9	4	19-14
UC Santa Barbara	11-9	4	18-14
Cal Poly	10-10	5	14-19
Long Beach State	6-14	9	10-22
UC Riverside	5-15	10	10-22
Cal State Bakersfield	2-18	13	8-24

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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