Ohio State Buckeyes @ Illinois Fighting Illini

18-7, 11-5 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Ohio State OSU	36	50	86
Illinois ILL	37	46	83

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

19-8, 12-5 Big Ten

Ohio State Buckeyes

starters
E.J. LiddellE.J. Liddell#32
Zed KeyZ. Key#23
Eugene Brown IIIE. Brown III#3
Malaki BranhamM. Branham#22
Jamari WheelerJ. Wheeler#55
bench
Kyle YoungK. Young#25
Joey BrunkJ. Brunk#50
Justin AhrensJ. Ahrens#10
Meechie JohnsonM. Johnson Jr.#0
Cedric RussellC. Russell#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
35	21	7-15	1-2	6-7	7	1	1	0	4	1	6	3
14	3	1-2	0-0	1-2	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	2
22	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	3	0	1	1	0	0	3	3
33	31	10-14	1-1	10-11	2	1	0	1	1	1	1	0
29	2	0-4	0-0	2-2	3	3	4	0	0	0	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
28	18	6-7	2-3	4-6	6	1	2	0	0	1	5	3
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
10	5	1-1	1-1	2-2	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1
12	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
14	6	2-5	1-2	1-2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3
	86	27-52	6-12	26-32	29	7	11	3	5	5	24	18
		52%	50%	81%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Kofi CockburnK. Cockburn#21
Jacob GrandisonJ. Grandison#3
Alfonso PlummerA. Plummer#11
Da'Monte WilliamsD. Williams#20
Trent FrazierT. Frazier#1
bench
Omar PayneO. Payne#4
Luke GoodeL. Goode#10
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Brandin PodziemskiB. Podziemski#0
Andre CurbeloA. Curbelo#5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	12	5-15	0-0	2-4	3	0	2	1	0	2	1	5
31	14	5-10	2-6	2-2	2	3	1	2	0	0	2	1
29	26	9-15	8-10	0-0	3	2	2	0	0	0	3	2
26	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	4
31	12	4-8	1-4	3-4	3	4	2	1	0	1	2	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
8	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	0
26	10	3-5	0-1	4-7	4	2	1	3	0	2	2	5
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	7	3-8	1-3	0-0	3	3	1	0	0	1	2	1
	83	30-63	12-25	11-17	30	15	11	7	0	12	18	24
		48%	48%	65%

E.J. Liddell comes out of nowhere to block this shot

0:18

Game Information

Champaign, IL

FS1

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Keith Kimble

Referee:Brian Dorsey

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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