Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons @ Evansville Purple Aces

CIT - 1st ROUND

16-15, 6-9 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Purdue FW PFW	27	50	77
Evansville EVAN	43	39	82

Evansville Purple AcesEvansvilleEVAN

20-12, 12-5 Home

Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons

starters
Steve ForbesS. Forbes#54
Mo EvansM. Evans#0
Max LandisM. Landis#10
Joe EdwardsJ. Edwards#53
Isaiah McCrayI. McCray#11
bench
Jure GunjinaJ. Gunjina#32
Joe ReedJ. Reed#44
Michael CalderM. Calder#12
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	20	8-15	0-0	4-5	5	0	0	0	2	2	3	1
37	8	3-7	2-6	0-1	3	6	0	2	1	0	3	5
38	10	3-10	2-6	2-4	2	5	1	1	0	0	2	2
36	13	4-11	2-4	3-3	5	2	3	1	1	2	3	2
28	19	6-9	5-8	2-3	5	3	2	1	2	1	4	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
24	7	3-4	0-1	1-2	3	1	2	1	0	0	3	2
13	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	2	2	5	0	0	0	2	3
	77	27-58	11-27	12-18	30	19	13	6	6	5	25	19
		47%	41%	67%

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
Egidijus MockeviciusE. Mockevicius#55
Blake SimmonsB. Simmons#50
Jaylon BrownJ. Brown#3
D.J. BalentineD.J. Balentine#31
Adam WingA. Wing#12
bench
David HowardD. Howard#44
Jaylon MooreJ. Moore#10
Taylor StaffordT. Stafford#1
Duane GibsonD. Gibson#4
Christian BenzonC. Benzon#2
Mislav BrzojaM. Brzoja#5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	15	6-11	0-0	3-3	10	0	0	0	0	3	7	3
32	8	2-6	2-4	2-2	6	1	1	2	0	0	6	0
22	4	1-4	0-0	2-4	2	2	2	0	0	0	2	3
37	35	12-18	6-9	5-6	2	4	3	1	0	0	2	1
23	8	4-9	0-0	0-0	7	3	3	1	1	2	5	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	5	2-3	0-0	1-2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	6	1	1	0	0	1	4
11	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1
17	2	1-5	0-2	0-0	2	0	2	1	0	0	2	2
	82	30-60	8-15	14-19	39	18	12	6	1	8	31	19
		50%	53%	74%

Game Information

Evansville, IN

Referee:Frank Spencer

Referee:Rob Kueneman

Referee:Courtney Green

NCAA Division I

Horizon League	CONF	GB	OVR
Wright State	15-5	-	23-12
Robert Morris	13-7	2	22-11
Green Bay	12-8	3	18-15
Detroit Mercy	12-8	3	17-15
Oakland	12-8	3	16-16
Purdue Fort Wayne	11-9	4	17-15
Northern Kentucky	10-10	5	20-14
Youngstown State	8-12	7	15-17
Milwaukee	8-12	7	12-20
Cleveland State	6-14	9	11-22
IU Indianapolis	3-17	12	7-25

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

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