Western Kentucky Hilltoppers @ Minnesota Golden Gophers

NIT SEASON TIP-OFF

Western Kentucky HilltoppersWestern KYWKU

1-1, 0-1 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Western KY WKU	28	26	54
Minnesota MINN	46	30	76

Minnesota Golden GophersMinnesotaMINN

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Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

starters
Aleksej RostovA. Rostov#20
George FantG. Fant#44
Chris Harrison-DocksC. Harrison-Docks#51
T.J. PriceT.J. Price#52
Trency JacksonT. Jackson#3
bench
Rob MarberryR. Marberry#33
Justin JohnsonJ. Johnson#23
Ben LawsonB. Lawson#14
Nigel SnipesN. Snipes#21
Avery PattersonA. Patterson#15
DJ ClaytonD. Clayton #2
Ayinde SprewellA. Sprewell#0
Kevin KasparK. Kaspar#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
16	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	5	0	3	1	0	1	4	3
21	5	1-7	1-5	2-2	2	1	3	1	0	0	2	0
21	3	1-7	1-5	0-0	5	2	7	0	0	0	5	4
25	9	3-7	1-2	2-2	5	5	4	2	0	1	4	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
25	15	6-8	0-0	3-4	7	1	0	0	0	2	5	2
20	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	3
21	15	5-11	4-6	1-2	8	1	1	0	0	1	7	1
9	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	2	1	0	0	0	2	1
10	0	0-4	0-4	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	0
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
12	3	1-4	1-4	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	54	18-57	8-28	10-12	42	14	25	4	2	8	34	20
		32%	29%	83%

Minnesota Golden Gophers

starters
Joey KingJ. King#24
Maurice WalkerM. Walker#15
Carlos MorrisC. Morris#11
DeAndre MathieuD. Mathieu#4
Andre HollinsA. Hollins#1
bench
Josh MartinJ. Martin#13
Charles BuggsC. Buggs#23
Bakary KonateB. Konate#21
Elliott EliasonE. Eliason#55
Nate MasonN. Mason#2
Daquein McNeilD. McNeil#5
Kendal ShellK. Shell#12
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
25	10	4-10	2-5	0-0	4	3	1	0	0	1	3	2
18	14	5-9	0-0	4-4	2	0	4	3	0	0	2	4
25	9	3-10	0-2	3-3	4	2	0	1	2	2	2	1
29	11	5-9	1-3	0-1	5	6	1	5	0	0	5	2
28	5	2-8	1-4	0-0	3	4	3	4	0	0	3	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	1	0-1	0-1	1-4	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
9	4	1-5	1-2	1-2	3	1	0	1	0	2	1	1
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-3	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	0
16	7	3-5	0-0	1-1	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	3
20	10	4-5	2-2	0-1	5	1	1	1	1	0	5	0
16	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	4	2	0	2	0	1	3	2
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	76	29-67	8-22	10-19	41	19	11	17	5	9	32	17
		43%	36%	53%

Game Information

Minneapolis, MN

Referee:Randy Heimerman

Referee:Lamont Simpson

Referee:Matt Potter

NCAA Division I

Conference USA	CONF	GB	OVR
Liberty	17-3	-	26-8
Sam Houston	13-7	4	22-12
Louisiana Tech	11-9	6	20-14
Western Kentucky	11-9	6	18-14
Middle Tennessee	11-9	6	17-15
Kennesaw State	10-10	7	21-14
Jacksonville State	10-10	7	15-17
New Mexico State	8-12	9	16-16
Missouri State	8-12	9	16-18
Florida International	8-12	9	15-17
UTEP	7-13	10	11-20
Delaware	6-14	11	10-21

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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