Illinois Fighting Illini @ Michigan State Spartans

13-16, 3-13 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Illinois ILL	35	26			61
Michigan St MSU	38	43			81

Michigan State SpartansMichigan StMSU

27-3, 15-2 Big Ten

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Kipper NicholsK. Nichols#2
Leron BlackL. Black#12
Trent FrazierT. Frazier#1
Aaron JordanA. Jordan#23
Mark AlstorkM. Alstork#24
bench
Greg EboigbodinG. Eboigbodin#11
Matic VeselM. Vesel#4
Cameron LissC. Liss#45
Samson OladimejiS. Oladimeji#35
Da'Monte WilliamsD. Williams#20
Mark SmithM. Smith#13
Te'Jon LucasT. Lucas#3
Drew CayceD. Cayce#10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
30	7	2-8	1-3	2-2	6	2	0	0	1	2	4	4
22	20	6-12	1-2	7-8	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	4
34	14	4-13	3-7	3-5	3	5	3	1	0	0	3	2
17	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
22	8	2-6	1-2	3-3	2	3	0	1	0	1	1	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	4	1-4	0-0	2-4	4	0	1	0	1	1	3	3
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	3	0-0	0-0	3-4	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
19	1	0-2	0-0	1-2	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	1
20	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	61	17-52	6-16	21-28	28	13	5	6	3	7	21	22
		33%	38%	75%

Michigan State Spartans

starters
Gavin SchillingG. Schilling#34
Ben CarterB. Carter#13
Miles BridgesM. Bridges#22
Joshua LangfordJ. Langford#1
Lourawls Nairn Jr.L. Nairn Jr.#11
bench
Xavier TillmanX. Tillman#23
Jaren Jackson Jr.J. Jackson Jr.#2
Nick WardN. Ward#44
Kenny GoinsK. Goins#25
Cassius WinstonC. Winston#5
Matt McQuaidM. McQuaid#20
Conner GeorgeC. George#41
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	6	0	0	0	1	4	2	0
6	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	0
33	19	4-11	4-7	7-8	5	3	1	1	0	0	5	0
27	16	5-11	3-4	3-4	3	5	2	0	0	0	3	2
24	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	3	2	2	0	0	0	3	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
9	5	2-2	0-0	1-1	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	3
18	8	3-5	1-3	1-2	4	0	1	0	5	0	4	4
15	8	1-2	0-0	6-7	7	1	1	0	2	0	7	2
17	9	3-4	1-2	2-2	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	1
15	12	4-5	2-3	2-2	2	5	0	0	0	0	2	3
24	0	0-4	0-4	0-0	4	1	0	0	1	1	3	3
1	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	81	24-51	11-27	22-26	40	20	8	2	11	7	33	20
		47%	41%	85%

Michigan State cruises on senior night

1:09

Bridges emotional leaving court in potential final home game

0:46

Spartans hammer the rim on back-to-back possessions

0:23

Game Information

East Lansing, MI

Referee:Larry Scirotto

Referee:Lamont Simpson

Referee:Paul Szelc

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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