Western Kentucky Hilltoppers @ Evansville Purple Aces

Western Kentucky HilltoppersWestern KYWKU

5-3, 1-3 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Western KY WKU	13	27	40
Evansville EVAN	36	36	72

Evansville Purple AcesEvansvilleEVAN

7-1, 7-0 Home

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

starters
bench
Sergio KeruschS. Kerusch
Steffphon PettigrewS. Pettigrew
Jeremy EvansJ. Evans
Matt MarescaM. Maresca
Mike WalkerM. Walker
Uros KomadinicU. Komadinic
D.J. MagleyD.J. Magley
Dejan CvoroD. Cvoro
Anthony SallyA. Sally
A.J. SlaughterA.J. Slaughter
Orlando Mendez-ValdezO. Mendez-Valdez
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	8	3-13	2-5	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	3
26	5	2-9	1-3	0-0	3	0	2	1	2	0	3	2
25	5	2-6	0-0	1-2	4	0	0	0	1	2	2	1
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	3	0	3	1	0	1	2	0
17	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	4
17	6	2-6	2-5	0-0	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	1
11	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	2	0	5	0	0	0	2	3
29	2	1-10	0-3	0-0	1	2	2	3	0	1	0	1
29	8	3-10	2-7	0-0	3	3	2	1	1	1	2	2
	40	16-60	7-24	1-2	28	11	16	6	4	9	19	17
		27%	29%	50%

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
bench
C.J. EricksonC.J. Erickson
James HaarsmaJ. Haarsma
Clint HopfC. Hopf
Nate GarnerN. Garner
Shy ElyS. Ely
Pieter van TongerenP. van Tongeren
Kaylon WilliamsK. Williams
Kavon LaceyK. Lacey
Darin GrangerD. Granger
Trevor GregoryT. Gregory
Jason HolsingerJ. Holsinger
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
20	8	3-6	0-0	2-2	3	2	0	1	0	1	2	2
2	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
35	13	5-11	0-0	3-4	16	2	3	3	0	5	11	1
31	26	10-14	1-2	5-6	1	1	3	2	0	0	1	2
19	8	4-5	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3
30	7	3-5	1-2	0-2	8	9	1	1	0	0	8	0
20	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	5	2	2	1	0	0	5	1
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	7	3-9	1-5	0-0	1	4	2	1	0	0	1	2
	72	29-56	3-9	11-16	44	20	12	11	0	9	35	11
		52%	33%	69%

Game Information

Evansville, IN

NCAA Division I

Conference USA	CONF	GB	OVR
Liberty	17-3	-	26-8
Sam Houston	13-7	4	22-12
Louisiana Tech	11-9	6	20-14
Western Kentucky	11-9	6	18-14
Middle Tennessee	11-9	6	17-15
Kennesaw State	10-10	7	21-14
Jacksonville State	10-10	7	15-17
New Mexico State	8-12	9	16-16
Missouri State	8-12	9	16-18
Florida International	8-12	9	15-17
UTEP	7-13	10	11-20
Delaware	6-14	11	10-21

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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