Alabama A&M Bulldogs @ Illinois Fighting Illini

4-7, 0-2 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Alabama A&M AAMU	19	28	47
Illinois ILL	36	32	68

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

8-3, 6-1 Home

Alabama A&M Bulldogs

starters
Austin HarvellA. Harvell#11
Olisa Blaise AkonobiO. Blaise Akonobi#33
Dailin SmithD. Smith#15
Garrett HicksG. Hicks#10
Cameron TuckerC. Tucker#3
bench
Xavier BrewerX. Brewer#13
William TavaresW. Tavares de Brito#30
EJ WilliamsEJ Williams#34
Omari PeekO. Peek#2
Lorenzo DowneyL. Downey#22
Jayland RandallJ. Randall#0
Eric LeeE. Lee#24
Messiah ThompsonM. Thompson#1
Brandon PowellB. Powell#12
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	2
32	9	3-8	0-0	3-5	12	0	1	0	6	4	8	0
25	7	2-8	0-0	3-4	4	2	3	0	0	3	1	1
29	13	5-15	2-7	1-1	3	0	0	1	0	1	2	2
22	4	1-3	0-2	2-2	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
6	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
11	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
12	2	1-3	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3
4	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
4	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
24	12	5-12	1-4	1-2	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	3
19	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	6	0	2	1	0	0	6	4
	47	17-56	3-17	10-14	33	2	18	7	6	11	22	23
		30%	18%	71%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Matthew MayerM. Mayer#24
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Skyy ClarkS. Clark#55
Jayden EppsJ. Epps#3
Terrence Shannon Jr.T. Shannon Jr. #0
bench
Brandon LiebB. Lieb#12
Dain DainjaD. Dainja#42
RJ MelendezR. Melendez#15
Ty RodgersT. Rodgers#20
Paxton WardenP. Warden#22
Sencire HarrisS. Harris#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
20	21	9-12	3-6	0-3	7	1	1	2	3	2	5	4
31	9	2-5	1-3	4-4	5	4	5	2	2	2	3	1
21	8	3-7	1-5	1-3	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	5
27	5	2-6	1-3	0-0	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	2
34	18	5-12	1-5	7-10	2	2	2	1	0	1	1	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	2	1-2	0-0	0-1	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	1
12	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	1
15	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	0
21	1	0-1	0-0	1-2	5	1	2	0	0	2	3	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	0	0-6	0-3	0-0	8	0	1	1	1	2	6	1
	68	24-57	7-27	13-23	46	9	18	7	6	16	30	16
		42%	26%	57%

Dain Dainja throws it down for an Illinois alley-oop

0:16

Messiah Thompson hits the triple vs. Illinois Fighting Illini

0:20

Olisa Blaise Akonobi gets up for the rejection

0:18

Game Information

Champaign, IL

Referee:Lamont Simpson

Referee:Rob Kueneman

Referee:Edwin Young

NCAA Division I

Southwestern Athletic Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Bethune-Cookman	14-4	-	17-15
Southern	11-7	3	17-17
Florida A&M	11-7	3	15-16
Alabama A&M	10-8	4	18-15
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	10-8	4	13-19
Texas Southern	10-8	4	12-18
Jackson State	10-8	4	12-21
Prairie View A&M	9-9	5	19-18
Grambling	7-11	7	14-19
Alabama State	7-11	7	10-22
Alcorn State	7-11	7	9-23
Mississippi Valley State	2-16	12	3-30

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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