Northwestern Wildcats @ Michigan State Spartans

12-13, 5-7 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Northwestern NU	30	40	70
Michigan St MSU	39	46	85

Michigan State SpartansMichigan StMSU

21-4, 10-2 Big Ten

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Kale AbrahamsonK. Abrahamson#13
Alex OlahA. Olah#22
Sanjay LumpkinS. Lumpkin#34
JerShon CobbJ. Cobb#23
Drew CrawfordD. Crawford#1
bench
Nathan TaphornN. Taphorn#32
Nikola CerinaN. Cerina#45
Aaron LibermanA. Liberman#31
James Montgomery IIIJ. Montgomery III#15
Tre DempsT. Demps#14
Dave SobolewskiD. Sobolewski#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
33	8	4-6	0-0	0-0	5	0	1	0	2	2	3	5
26	4	1-2	0-0	2-2	3	2	1	1	0	1	2	4
38	22	7-14	5-11	3-3	7	1	3	0	0	1	6	0
37	18	7-17	2-6	2-3	4	7	3	0	0	1	3	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
4	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
7	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	18	5-11	2-5	6-8	1	3	1	1	0	0	1	0
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	70	24-52	9-24	13-16	24	13	9	2	2	6	18	15
		46%	38%	81%

Michigan State Spartans

starters
Matt CostelloM. Costello#10
Adreian PayneA. Payne#5
Denzel ValentineD. Valentine#45
Gary HarrisG. Harris#14
Travis Trice IIT. Trice II#20
bench
Gavin SchillingG. Schilling#34
Trevor BohnhoffT. Bohnhoff#13
Kenny KaminskiK. Kaminski#30
Colby WollenmanC. Wollenman#41
Alex GaunaA. Gauna#2
Alvin Ellis IIIA. Ellis III#3
Keenan WetzelK. Wetzel#15
Dan ChapmanD. Chapman#40
Russell ByrdR. Byrd #0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
17	9	4-5	0-0	1-2	4	2	0	0	0	1	3	0
33	20	6-11	2-4	6-8	14	3	2	1	1	4	10	2
33	16	6-10	3-3	1-2	5	6	1	0	0	3	2	3
25	14	6-13	2-4	0-0	1	3	1	1	0	0	1	3
33	11	4-9	3-6	0-0	3	6	0	2	0	0	3	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	8	4-7	0-2	0-0	5	1	0	0	0	3	2	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
13	5	1-1	1-1	2-2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4
2	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	2
	85	32-60	11-21	10-14	37	22	7	5	1	13	24	18
		53%	52%	71%

Game Information

East Lansing, MI

BTN

Referee:Larry Scirotto

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Gene Steratore

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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