Illinois Fighting Illini @ Northwestern Wildcats

9-5, 0-3 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Illinois ILL	27	33	60
Northwestern NU	31	42	73

Northwestern WildcatsNorthwesternNU

11-3, 2-1 Big Ten

Illinois Fighting Illini

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

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	9	4-6	0-0	1-2	9	0	2	0	3	3	6	2
30	17	5-11	3-7	4-4	7	0	2	1	3	0	7	5
36	10	4-11	2-6	0-1	5	1	3	0	0	2	3	3
9	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
33	9	3-8	2-4	1-2	5	7	3	0	0	1	4	5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	2	1-3	0-2	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	3
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
20	2	1-6	0-3	0-1	3	2	2	0	0	0	3	2
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	11	5-12	1-5	0-0	2	1	2	1	0	1	1	5
	60	23-58	8-28	6-10	38	13	15	2	6	9	29	29
		40%	29%	60%

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Robbie BeranR. Beran#31
Matthew NicholsonM. Nicholson#34
Ty BerryT. Berry#3
Boo BuieB. Buie#0
Chase AudigeC. Audige#1
bench
Tydus VerhoevenT. Verhoeven#10
Brooks BarnhizerB. Barnhizer#13
Julian Roper IIJ. Roper II#5
Roy Dixon IIIR. Dixon III#53
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	5	2-7	0-1	1-1	5	1	1	1	1	0	5	3
25	7	3-5	0-0	1-1	6	1	1	2	0	3	3	2
24	13	3-6	2-3	5-6	1	1	1	2	0	0	1	2
28	15	2-13	0-4	11-12	1	4	1	1	0	0	1	4
33	21	5-14	4-9	7-8	2	0	2	4	1	0	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
12	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	3
22	8	1-4	1-1	5-8	7	2	0	1	0	2	5	0
29	2	0-3	0-0	2-4	7	2	0	0	1	2	5	2
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	73	17-53	7-18	32-40	35	11	8	11	3	9	26	17
		32%	39%	80%

Chase Audige shows off range with deep 3

0:18

Terrence Shannon Jr. makes beautiful dish for a basket

0:16

Matthew Nicholson skies for big dunk

0:23

Game Information

Evanston, IL

Referee:Paul Szelc

Referee:Courtney Green

Referee:Edwin Young

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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