Illinois Fighting Illini @ Northwestern Wildcats

6-2, 0-1 Big Ten

Final/OT

	1	2	3	4	T
Illinois ILL	36	27	5		68
Northwestern NU	32	31	9		72

Northwestern WildcatsNorthwesternNU

5-3, 1-0 Big Ten

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Michael FinkeM. Finke#43
Leron BlackL. Black#12
Mark SmithM. Smith#13
Te'Jon LucasT. Lucas#3
Mark AlstorkM. Alstork#24
bench
Kipper NicholsK. Nichols#2
Da'Monte WilliamsD. Williams#20
Trent FrazierT. Frazier#1
Aaron JordanA. Jordan#23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
32	2	0-3	0-2	2-4	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	3
36	15	5-11	1-3	4-4	7	0	5	0	0	3	4	4
8	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
35	14	6-12	0-1	2-4	5	2	2	1	0	0	5	2
40	14	4-8	0-3	6-6	6	3	3	2	0	1	5	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	4	2-7	0-1	0-0	7	0	3	1	0	1	6	1
20	4	1-3	0-2	2-2	4	1	2	3	0	0	4	2
10	0	0-2	0-2	0-1	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	1
23	10	2-3	1-1	5-5	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	4
	68	22-53	3-18	21-26	36	8	19	8	0	6	30	23
		42%	17%	81%

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Vic LawV. Law#4
Aaron FalzonA. Falzon#35
Bryant McIntoshB. McIntosh#30
Dererk PardonD. Pardon#5
Jordan AshJ. Ash#23
bench
Gavin SkellyG. Skelly#44
Barret BensonB. Benson#25
Anthony GainesA. Gaines#11
Isiah BrownI. Brown#12
Scottie LindseyS. Lindsey#20
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
35	16	6-11	2-7	2-2	7	1	1	1	0	1	6	5
22	7	1-6	1-4	4-4	1	2	5	0	0	0	1	5
42	14	5-14	2-4	2-3	3	6	6	1	0	0	3	2
43	6	3-6	0-0	0-0	4	2	0	2	4	2	2	3
14	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
15	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	3	1	1	1	0	1	2	5
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
7	5	1-2	0-0	3-4	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
39	22	6-17	3-7	7-8	3	1	3	2	0	1	2	3
	72	23-59	8-23	18-21	32	13	17	8	4	7	25	28
		39%	35%	86%

Game Information

Rosemont, IL

BTN

Referee:Terry Wymer

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Paul Szelc

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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