Houston Cougars vs Cleveland State Vikings

Men's Basketball Championship - Midwest Region - 1st Round

19-8

Final

	1	2	T
Cleveland St CLE	29	27	56
Houston HOU	37	50	87

Houston CougarsHoustonHOU

25-3

Cleveland State Vikings

starters
Deante JohnsonD. Johnson#35
D'Moi HodgeD. Hodge#55
Tre GomillionT. Gomillion#5
Craig Beaudion IIC. Beaudion#3
Torrey PattonT. Patton#24
bench
Chris GreeneC. Greene#13
Algevon EichelbergerA. Eichelberger#12
Mabor MajakM. Majak#50
Jayson WoodrichJ. Woodrich#11
Ben SternbergB. Sternberg#31
Yahel HillY. Hill#2
Demetrius TerryD. Terry#1
Alec OglesbyA. Oglesby#0
Jeremy SanchezJ. Sanchez#21
Hugo FerreiraH. Ferreira#23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	6	3-5	0-0	0-0	3	2	0	1	4	2	1	1
28	11	3-9	3-7	2-4	3	0	1	3	0	1	2	4
25	6	2-8	0-0	2-2	0	2	4	2	0	0	0	4
27	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3
31	8	3-11	1-3	1-2	8	3	0	0	0	1	7	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	3	1-2	1-2	0-1	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	3
16	5	2-3	0-0	1-2	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	3
3	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	5	1-1	0-0	3-4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
1	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
15	6	1-1	1-1	3-4	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	56	17-44	6-15	16-23	24	8	14	6	4	7	17	25
		39%	40%	70%

Houston Cougars

starters
Justin GorhamJ. Gorham#4
Marcus SasserM. Sasser#0
DeJon JarreauD. Jarreau#3
Reggie ChaneyR. Chaney #32
Quentin GrimesQ. Grimes #24
bench
J'Wan RobertsJ. Roberts#13
Brison GreshamB. Gresham#55
Tramon MarkT. Mark#12
Jamal SheadJ. Shead#1
Cameron TysonC. Tyson#5
Kiyron PowellK. Powell #52
Fabian White Jr.F. White Jr. #35
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	10	4-7	0-1	2-4	4	0	0	0	0	2	2	4
35	14	5-14	3-8	1-1	2	3	0	1	0	0	2	0
1	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	6	1-1	0-0	4-4	7	0	0	1	4	5	2	2
35	18	6-13	4-8	2-2	4	4	3	0	0	3	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
15	10	4-5	0-0	2-2	4	0	0	1	2	2	2	2
24	15	5-10	0-2	5-6	3	2	1	3	0	0	3	2
12	0	0-2	0-2	0-2	2	1	3	0	0	0	2	1
13	2	0-3	0-3	2-2	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
19	12	4-4	0-0	4-4	5	1	1	1	1	1	4	2
	87	29-61	7-25	22-29	38	12	9	7	7	16	22	17
		48%	28%	76%

Game Information

Bloomington, IN

Referee:Tony Greene

Referee:Joe Lindsay

Referee:Deldre Carr

NCAA Division I

Horizon League	CONF	GB	OVR
Wright State	15-5	-	23-12
Robert Morris	13-7	2	22-11
Green Bay	12-8	3	18-15
Detroit Mercy	12-8	3	17-15
Oakland	12-8	3	16-16
Purdue Fort Wayne	11-9	4	17-15
Northern Kentucky	10-10	5	20-14
Youngstown State	8-12	7	15-17
Milwaukee	8-12	7	12-20
Cleveland State	6-14	9	11-22
IU Indianapolis	3-17	12	7-25

Big 12 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Arizona	16-2	-	36-3
Houston	14-4	2	30-7
Iowa State	12-6	4	29-8
Kansas	12-6	4	24-11
Texas Tech	12-6	4	23-11
TCU	11-7	5	23-12
BYU	9-9	7	23-12
UCF	9-9	7	21-12
West Virginia	9-9	7	21-14
Cincinnati	9-9	7	18-15
Colorado	7-11	9	17-16
Arizona State	7-11	9	17-16
Oklahoma State	6-12	10	20-15
Baylor	6-12	10	17-17
Kansas State	3-15	13	12-20
Utah	2-16	14	10-22

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