Southern Miss Golden Eagles @ Minnesota Golden Gophers

NIT - QUARTERFINAL

Southern Miss Golden EaglesSouthern MissUSM

29-7, 10-6 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Southern Miss USM	40	33	73
Minnesota MINN	44	37	81

Minnesota Golden GophersMinnesotaMINN

23-13, 18-3 Home

Southern Miss Golden Eagles

starters
Daveon BoardinghamD. Boardingham#11
Aaron BrownA. Brown#22
Michael CraigM. Craig#24
Jerrold BrooksJ. Brooks#23
Neil WatsonN. Watson#5
bench
Jeremiah EasonJ. Eason#30
Ude IfeanyichukwaU. Ifeanyichukwu#32
Norville CareyN. Carey#21
Deonte HoustonD. Houston#12
Matt BingayaM. Bingaya#2
Jamie ChapmanJ. Chapman#25
Chip ArmelinC. Armelin#13
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	15	6-8	0-0	3-4	5	0	1	1	0	3	2	5
27	8	3-10	2-4	0-0	4	2	0	0	0	2	2	0
30	7	3-5	0-0	1-2	5	6	4	2	0	1	4	3
23	8	3-8	2-6	0-0	2	3	0	1	0	0	2	0
32	16	5-14	4-11	2-2	5	6	3	3	0	1	4	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	4
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
21	6	1-4	1-3	3-4	4	3	1	0	0	1	3	3
20	9	3-5	0-1	3-8	6	0	3	1	1	2	4	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	73	26-59	9-26	12-20	37	20	12	8	1	14	23	20
		44%	35%	60%

Minnesota Golden Gophers

starters
Joey KingJ. King#24
Elliott EliasonE. Eliason#55
DeAndre MathieuD. Mathieu#4
Andre HollinsA. Hollins#1
Austin HollinsA. Hollins#20
bench
Charles BuggsC. Buggs#23
Maurice WalkerM. Walker#15
Daquein McNeilD. McNeil#5
Malik SmithM. Smith#30
Kendal ShellK. Shell#2
Maverick AhanmisiM. Ahanmisi#13
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
32	15	7-13	1-4	0-0	3	2	1	1	1	0	3	1
15	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	1	1	1	0	2	2
27	7	3-3	1-1	0-0	2	1	5	2	0	0	2	3
35	5	1-8	0-5	3-4	4	7	2	2	0	0	4	1
33	32	8-14	6-11	10-10	2	4	0	3	0	1	1	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
7	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
25	12	3-5	0-0	6-7	9	4	0	3	3	3	6	3
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
9	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	6	2-4	2-3	0-0	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0
	81	26-52	10-27	19-21	27	23	10	12	5	4	23	14
		50%	37%	90%

Game Information

Minneapolis, MN

ESPN

Referee:Lamar Simpson

Referee:Terry Oglesby

Referee:Mike Eades

NCAA Division I

Sun Belt Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Troy	12-6	-	22-12
South Alabama	11-7	1	21-12
Arkansas State	11-7	1	20-12
Texas State	11-7	1	19-13
Marshall	11-7	1	19-13
Coastal Carolina	11-7	1	19-13
App State	11-7	1	19-13
James Madison	9-9	3	18-15
Southern Miss	9-9	3	19-16
Georgia Southern	8-10	4	21-16
Old Dominion	7-11	5	12-21
Louisiana	7-11	5	11-22
Georgia State	7-11	5	10-22
UL Monroe	1-17	11	4-28

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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