Northwestern Wildcats @ Minnesota Golden Gophers

14-11, 5-9 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Northwestern NU	18	27	45
Minnesota MINN	36	36	72

Minnesota Golden GophersMinnesotaMINN

20-7, 8-7 Big Ten

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
John ShurnaJ. Shurna
Kevin CobleK. Coble
Luka MirkovicL. Mirkovic
Craig MooreC. Moore
Michael ThompsonM. Thompson
bench
Davide CurlettiD. Curletti
Mike CapocciM. Capocci
Ivan PeljusicI. Peljusic
Jeff RyanJ. Ryan
Sterling WilliamsS. Williams
Kyle RowleyK. Rowley
Nick FruendtN. Fruendt
Jeremy NashJ. Nash
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	9	2-7	1-3	4-4	6	0	0	0	1	0	6	3
22	5	2-6	1-2	0-0	1	2	1	1	0	0	1	0
8	0	0-3	0-1	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	2
18	3	1-5	1-4	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	2
30	8	3-8	2-5	0-0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
7	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
8	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	1
8	0	0-1	0-0	0-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
18	1	0-1	0-0	1-2	1	2	1	2	0	0	1	1
14	1	0-2	0-1	1-2	1	1	2	0	1	0	1	1
20	7	2-3	0-0	3-6	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	3
3	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	9	3-7	1-3	2-2	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	4
	45	14-46	6-19	11-17	21	11	11	7	2	4	17	23
		30%	32%	65%

Minnesota Golden Gophers

starters
Paul CarterP. Carter
Damian JohnsonD. Johnson
Ralph Sampson IIIR. Sampson III
Al NolenA. Nolen
Lawrence WestbrookL. Westbrook
bench
Travis BuschT. Busch
Jamal Abu-ShamalaJ. Abu-Shamala
Colton IversonC. Iverson
Jonathan WilliamsJ. Williams
Devoe JosephD. Joseph
Devron BostickD. Bostick
Blake HoffarberB. Hoffarber
Kevin PaytonK. Payton
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	7	2-4	0-0	3-3	8	1	0	0	0	1	7	2
17	6	3-6	0-0	0-0	3	1	1	2	0	1	2	4
19	3	0-1	0-0	3-4	7	0	1	0	2	1	6	3
25	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	2	3	2	1	0	0	2	2
25	17	6-10	4-6	1-1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	7	1-2	0-0	5-6	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	1
3	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1
20	7	2-4	0-0	3-6	4	1	3	0	1	1	3	3
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
15	2	0-1	0-1	2-3	1	1	2	2	0	0	1	2
16	9	4-7	1-3	0-0	4	3	2	1	1	1	3	0
19	7	1-3	1-3	4-4	4	4	2	1	0	0	4	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	72	22-43	7-16	21-27	40	16	17	8	6	9	31	19
		51%	44%	78%

Game Information

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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Transfers, recruits and roster moves for key men's NCAA basketball teams

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