Illinois Fighting Illini @ Northwestern Wildcats

15-5, 8-2 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Illinois ILL	24	35	59
Northwestern NU	19	37	56

Northwestern WildcatsNorthwesternNU

9-10, 2-8 Big Ten

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Kofi CockburnK. Cockburn#21
Jacob GrandisonJ. Grandison#3
Alfonso PlummerA. Plummer#11
Da'Monte WilliamsD. Williams#20
Trent FrazierT. Frazier#1
bench
Benjamin Bosmans-VerdonkB. Bosmans-Verdonk#13
Omar PayneO. Payne#4
Luke GoodeL. Goode#10
RJ MelendezR. Melendez#15
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Brandin PodziemskiB. Podziemski#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
30	22	10-17	0-0	2-4	9	1	4	0	1	1	8	3
32	2	1-6	0-3	0-0	6	4	2	2	0	1	5	2
19	9	2-6	2-5	3-4	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	4
32	5	1-1	0-0	3-4	9	3	0	0	0	1	8	1
40	6	2-10	2-6	0-0	1	2	3	1	0	0	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	3	1	1	1
5	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	2
16	6	2-4	0-0	2-2	3	1	1	0	0	1	2	0
9	2	1-2	0-1	0-1	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1
6	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	59	22-51	5-18	10-15	36	14	13	4	4	6	30	15
		43%	28%	67%

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Robbie BeranR. Beran#31
Pete NanceP. Nance#22
Julian Roper IIJ. Roper II#5
Boo BuieB. Buie#0
Chase AudigeC. Audige#1
bench
Elyjah WilliamsE. Williams#21
Matthew NicholsonM. Nicholson#34
Ryan YoungR. Young#15
Ty BerryT. Berry#3
Ryan GreerR. Greer#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
15	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
27	21	8-15	3-5	2-2	5	1	1	0	0	0	5	3
18	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	5	0	1	0	0	2	3	0
30	9	3-11	1-2	2-2	1	3	1	1	1	0	1	3
25	5	1-4	0-0	3-5	2	0	1	2	1	1	1	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	7	3-6	0-2	1-1	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	3
2	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
13	0	0-6	0-2	0-0	5	0	1	0	0	2	3	3
21	8	3-8	2-5	0-0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
25	4	2-3	0-1	0-0	2	3	1	1	0	0	2	1
	56	20-56	6-18	10-12	30	7	9	6	2	6	24	20
		36%	33%	83%

Da'Monte Williams flies in for the go-ahead slam

0:15

Elyjah Williams fights off defender for and-1

0:21

Elyjah Williams caps Northwestern's 13-2 run with tough bucket

0:16

Game Information

Evanston, IL

BTN

Referee:Donnie Eppley

Referee:Bill Ek

Referee:Chris Beaver

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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