Ball State Cardinals @ Eastern Illinois Panthers

5-4, 2-2 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Ball State BALL	36	40	76
E Illinois EIU	29	30	59

Eastern Illinois PanthersE IllinoisEIU

2-8, 2-3 Home

Ball State Cardinals

starters
Payton SparksP. Sparks#5
Jaylin SellersJ. Sellers#12
Jalen WindhamJ. Windham#24
Jarron ColemanJ. Coleman#0
Demarius JacobsD. Jacobs#1
bench
Basheer JihadB. Jihad#11
Mickey Pearson Jr.M. Pearson Jr.#3
Ben HendriksB. Hendriks#34
Kaiyem ClearyK. Cleary#23
Luke BumbaloughL. Bumbalough#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	12	6-9	0-0	0-1	4	0	1	1	1	4	0	3
20	9	2-4	1-1	4-5	4	1	2	1	0	1	3	5
18	10	4-10	2-6	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
36	11	3-9	3-7	2-2	5	8	2	1	0	0	5	4
32	10	3-7	1-2	3-4	3	5	3	0	0	0	3	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	4	1-4	0-1	2-2	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	1
27	20	8-10	2-2	2-2	9	0	5	1	0	4	5	1
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
25	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	2	0	1	0	0	2	0
	76	27-55	9-21	13-16	36	17	13	5	1	12	24	21
		49%	43%	81%

Eastern Illinois Panthers

starters
Nick EllingtonN. Ellington#11
Sincere MaloneS. Malone#5
Caleb DonaldsonC. Donaldson#20
Kinyon HodgesK. Hodges#10
Yaakema Rose Jr.Y. Rose Jr.#4
bench
Kyle ThomasK. Thomas#24
Rodolfo BolisR. Bolis#23
Paul BizimanaP. Bizimana#2
Kyle CarlesimoK. Carlesimo#13
Cam HaffnerC. Haffner#3
Dan LuersD. Luers#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	12	3-4	0-0	6-6	5	1	1	3	1	3	2	2
23	9	3-6	1-2	2-3	4	1	3	2	0	2	2	4
38	9	4-11	0-1	1-2	2	1	4	0	0	0	2	2
39	12	4-10	0-1	4-6	2	3	1	1	0	0	2	1
21	5	2-6	0-1	1-1	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	7	3-5	0-2	1-3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3
20	3	1-4	0-2	1-2	5	1	0	0	1	3	2	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
9	2	1-3	0-2	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
	59	21-49	1-11	16-25	26	11	12	6	3	9	17	19
		43%	9%	64%

Game Information

Charleston, IL

Referee:Gene Grimshaw

Referee:Mike O'Neill

Referee:Shane Staggs

NCAA Division I

Mid-American Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Miami (OH)	18-0	-	32-2
Akron	17-1	1	29-6
Kent State	14-4	4	24-10
Toledo	11-7	7	19-15
Bowling Green	9-9	9	18-14
Ohio	9-9	9	15-17
Buffalo	7-11	11	17-15
Massachusetts	7-11	11	17-16
Ball State	7-11	11	12-19
Central Michigan	6-12	12	10-21
Western Michigan	4-14	14	10-21
Eastern Michigan	4-14	14	10-21
Northern Illinois	4-14	14	9-21

Ohio Valley Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Tennessee State	15-5	-	23-10
Morehead State	15-5	-	20-13
Southeast Missouri State	14-6	1	20-13
UT Martin	13-7	2	22-11
SIU Edwardsville	12-8	3	19-13
Lindenwood	11-9	4	18-15
Little Rock	9-11	6	12-20
Tennessee Tech	8-12	7	13-18
Eastern Illinois	8-12	7	13-20
Southern Indiana	4-16	11	7-23
Western Illinois	1-19	14	5-26

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