Northwestern Wildcats @ Illinois Fighting Illini

12-17, 3-15 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Northwestern NU	27	49	76
Illinois ILL	39	42	81

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

11-18, 7-11 Big Ten

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Miller KoppM. Kopp#10
Vic LawV. Law#4
Dererk PardonD. Pardon#5
Anthony GainesA. Gaines#11
Ryan TaylorR. Taylor#14
bench
Pete NanceP. Nance#22
A.J. TurnerA.J. Turner#21
Aaron FalzonA. Falzon#35
Barret BensonB. Benson#25
Ryan GreerR. Greer#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
18	13	4-11	2-6	3-3	3	1	0	1	0	1	2	2
36	9	3-11	1-5	2-2	5	2	4	1	0	0	5	5
37	16	5-10	0-0	6-9	10	3	1	1	3	5	5	3
36	9	2-6	0-2	5-5	6	4	1	0	0	1	5	5
17	13	5-10	3-5	0-0	3	0	0	2	0	0	3	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	2	1-1	0-0	0-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
33	12	5-13	1-8	1-2	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	4
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
8	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	2
	76	26-66	7-28	17-22	32	14	8	6	3	8	24	27
		39%	25%	77%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Giorgi BezhanishviliG. Bezhanishvili#15
Ayo DosunmuA. Dosunmu#11
Da'Monte WilliamsD. Williams#20
Trent FrazierT. Frazier#1
Aaron JordanA. Jordan#23
bench
Kipper NicholsK. Nichols#2
Alan GriffinA. Griffin#0
Adonis De La RosaA. De La Rosa#12
Andres FelizA. Feliz#10
Tevian JonesT. Jones#5
Tyler UnderwoodT. Underwood#32
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	12	2-6	0-2	8-8	7	0	4	0	2	0	7	4
35	12	4-9	3-5	1-3	5	5	1	0	0	0	5	4
16	6	2-2	1-1	1-2	3	1	0	1	0	1	2	3
29	11	2-6	1-2	6-6	3	5	1	1	0	0	3	2
30	3	1-6	1-4	0-0	10	1	1	1	0	0	10	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	5	2-3	0-1	1-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
9	4	2-3	0-1	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	2
13	0	0-1	0-0	0-1	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
30	26	5-9	0-0	16-17	5	3	1	3	0	2	3	4
3	2	1-2	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	0
	81	21-47	6-16	33-38	40	16	12	7	2	5	35	22
		45%	38%	87%

Game Information

Champaign, IL

BTN

Referee:Bo Boroski

Referee:Steve McJunkins

Referee:Kelly Pfeifer

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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