Illinois State Redbirds @ Evansville Purple Aces

3-6, 0-3 MVC

Final

	1	2	T
Illinois St ILST	27	21	48
Evansville EVAN	26	31	57

Evansville Purple AcesEvansvilleEVAN

6-5, 4-1 MVC

Illinois State Redbirds

starters
Dusan MahorcicD. Mahorcic#21
Harouna SissokoH. Sissoko#23
Antonio ReevesA. Reeves#12
DJ HorneDJ Horne#0
Josiah StrongJ. Strong#2
bench
Abdou NdiayeA. Ndiaye#4
Emon WashingtonE. Washington#10
Howie Fleming Jr.H. Fleming Jr.#3
Dedric BoydD. Boyd#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	3	1-3	0-0	1-6	11	1	1	0	0	3	8	1
8	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
35	11	4-7	2-3	1-3	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	1
30	10	4-8	1-4	1-2	5	2	3	1	1	0	5	3
34	10	5-13	0-2	0-0	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
17	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	1	1	3	1	2	1	0	1
21	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	2	1	0	1	1	0
18	1	0-2	0-0	1-2	8	2	2	0	0	0	8	3
14	8	2-4	2-2	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
	48	18-42	6-13	6-15	32	7	15	4	4	5	27	14
		43%	46%	40%

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
Evan KuhlmanE. Kuhlman#10
Jax LevitchJ. Levitch#2
Jawaun NewtonJ. Newton#3
Shamar GivanceS. Givance#5
Noah FrederkingN. Frederking#30
bench
Iyen EnarunaI. Enaruna#31
Trey HallT. Hall#23
Gage BobeG. Bobe#0
Samari CurtisS. Curtis#41
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	4	2-9	0-1	0-0	3	1	0	2	2	1	2	4
34	6	2-3	2-3	0-0	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	1
36	19	8-12	3-5	0-0	5	1	2	0	0	2	3	2
30	15	5-13	1-5	4-4	7	6	1	2	0	2	5	0
29	2	1-9	0-6	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	8	3-5	0-0	2-2	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	2
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	3	1-6	1-5	0-0	5	1	2	0	0	1	4	1
	57	22-57	7-25	6-6	30	12	7	5	2	8	22	10
		39%	28%	100%

Game Information

Evansville, IN

ESPN3

Referee:Ford Branch Jr

Referee:Cody Crum

Referee:Tom Johnson

NCAA Division I

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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