Ball State Cardinals @ Northern Illinois Huskies

12-11, 3-7 MAC

Final

	1	2	T
Ball State BALL	27	45	72
N Illinois NIU	25	46	71

Northern Illinois HuskiesN IllinoisNIU

12-11, 5-5 MAC

Ball State Cardinals

starters
Kyle MallersK. Mallers#14
Tahjai TeagueT. Teague#25
Trey MosesT. Moses#24
K.J. WaltonK.J. Walton#1
Tayler PersonsT. Persons#2
bench
Blake HugginsB. Huggins#44
Austin NehlsA. Nehls#20
Josh ThompsonJ. Thompson#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	0	0-4	0-3	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	5
33	14	5-9	1-1	3-7	13	2	4	3	3	2	11	2
34	22	7-9	0-0	8-11	10	1	2	0	0	3	7	0
34	3	1-8	0-0	1-2	2	3	1	2	0	1	1	1
33	29	9-13	6-9	5-6	1	3	2	0	0	0	1	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
19	0	0-5	0-5	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
18	4	1-5	1-4	1-2	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
	72	23-54	8-22	18-28	37	13	12	5	3	9	28	10
		43%	36%	64%

Northern Illinois Huskies

starters
Levi BradleyL. Bradley#42
Lacey JamesL. James#4
Rod Henry-HayesR. Henry-Hayes#22
Dante ThorpeD. Thorpe#0
Eugene GermanE. German#10
bench
Noah McCartyN. McCarty#11
Jaylen KeyJ. Key#15
Austin RichieA. Richie#32
Zaire MateenZ. Mateen#5
Trendon HankersonT. Hankerson#1
Gairges DaowG. Daow#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
31	12	5-10	0-2	2-2	5	1	0	0	1	1	4	4
29	12	4-7	1-1	3-3	6	1	0	2	0	2	4	3
23	6	2-5	1-2	1-1	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	2
32	15	6-11	1-2	2-2	4	3	3	0	0	1	3	4
35	17	7-18	3-7	0-0	7	4	1	2	1	0	7	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	2
9	4	2-7	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3
11	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	2	0	1	2
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	71	28-62	7-18	8-8	33	10	11	4	5	6	27	21
		45%	39%	100%

Game Information

Dekalb, IL

ESPN+

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Robert Riley

Referee:Courtney Green

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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