Evansville Purple Aces @ Belmont Bruins

1-2, 0-2 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Evansville EVAN	14	29	43
Belmont BEL	34	47	81

Belmont BruinsBelmontBEL

1-1, 1-0 Home

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
Iyen EnarunaI. Enaruna#31
Antoine Smith Jr.A. Smith Jr.#34
Evan KuhlmanE. Kuhlman#10
Jawaun NewtonJ. Newton#3
Shamar GivanceS. Givance#5
bench
Preston PhillipsP. Phillips#24
Blake SisleyB. Sisley#2
Blaise BeauchampB. Beauchamp#13
Emmette PageE. Page #11
Gage BobeG. Bobe#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
16	4	2-8	0-1	0-0	3	0	1	2	0	2	1	2
18	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	1
26	1	0-8	0-6	1-2	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	3
30	10	3-11	2-6	2-2	6	1	1	0	0	2	4	2
32	17	5-7	4-6	3-4	3	1	4	1	0	0	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
25	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	3	2	1	1	0	1	2	2
8	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
16	9	3-5	3-4	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
3	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
26	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	2
	43	14-51	9-32	6-8	26	8	20	6	1	6	20	14
		27%	28%	75%

Belmont Bruins

starters
Michael ShanksM. Shanks#11
Nick MuszynskiN. Muszynski#33
Ben SheppardB. Sheppard#22
Grayson MurphyG. Murphy#2
bench
Even BraunsE. Brauns#0
Frank JakubicekF. Jakubicek#25
Derek SabinD. Sabin#21
Will RichardW. Richard#4
JaCobi WoodJ. Wood#24
EJ BellingerEJ Bellinger#5
Tate PiersonT. Pierson#20
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
15	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	1
20	10	4-6	0-1	2-2	5	3	1	0	1	1	4	0
25	11	4-11	2-5	1-1	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	1
27	16	6-7	2-3	2-4	6	5	1	5	1	1	5	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	2	1-2	0-0	0-2	4	2	0	0	1	2	2	0
10	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	1	1	1	1	0
7	3	1-1	0-0	1-1	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
20	11	4-5	2-3	1-3	6	0	1	1	1	2	4	4
21	1	0-5	0-3	1-2	1	2	3	1	0	0	1	3
10	7	3-6	1-3	0-0	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	2
14	6	2-4	2-4	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1
	81	31-59	11-29	8-15	41	19	12	10	5	12	29	14
		53%	38%	53%

Game Information

Nashville, TN

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Referee:John St. Clair

Referee:Mick Fieldbinder

Referee:Shane Staggs

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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