Northern Illinois Huskies @ Akron Zips

4-10, 0-1 MAC

Final

	1	2	T
N Illinois NIU	26	25	51
Akron AKR	28	48	76

Akron ZipsAkronAKR

9-5, 1-0 MAC

Northern Illinois Huskies

starters
Harvin IbarguenH. Ibarguen#23
Anthony CrumpA. Crump#50
Zarique NutterZ. Nutter#2
David CoitD. Coit#11
Keshawn WilliamsK. Williams#0
bench
Yanic Konan NiederhauserY. Konan Niederhauser#14
Xavier AmosX. Amos#5
Oluwasegun DurosinmiO. Durosinmi#4
Armandas PlintauskasA. Plintauskas#41
Taku YoungbloodT. Youngblood#1
Kaleb ThorntonK. Thornton#3
Darweshi HunterD. Hunter#24
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
10	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	5
21	7	3-3	0-0	1-4	2	0	3	0	2	1	1	3
28	11	5-12	1-3	0-1	9	1	2	0	0	1	8	1
22	6	0-5	0-3	6-6	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	3
32	10	4-17	0-4	2-3	4	0	3	1	0	2	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	4	2-4	0-1	0-0	2	1	2	0	1	2	0	3
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	3	0	3	0	0	3	0	5
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
28	5	1-4	1-2	2-2	4	1	0	1	1	1	3	2
26	6	2-5	0-2	2-2	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	1
	51	18-51	2-15	13-18	31	5	19	5	4	11	20	24
		35%	13%	72%

Akron Zips

starters
Enrique FreemanE. Freeman#25
Sammy HunterS. Hunter#11
Tavari JohnsonT. Johnson#5
Greg TribbleG. Tribble#2
Trendon HankersonT. Hankerson#4
bench
Amani LylesA. Lyles#0
Nate JohnsonN. Johnson#34
Evan WilsonE. Wilson#20
Pat MayfieldP. Mayfield#12
Kobe MitchellK. Mitchell#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
31	27	10-18	0-0	7-10	15	2	3	3	0	4	11	1
14	3	1-5	1-5	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
29	8	3-9	1-3	1-2	1	0	4	0	1	1	0	4
30	16	5-6	0-0	6-6	2	2	2	3	0	1	1	4
33	3	1-8	1-7	0-0	6	4	1	0	2	1	5	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	3	1-1	0-0	1-1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	3
30	8	3-6	1-2	1-2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
3	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
20	5	1-2	1-2	2-2	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	2
	76	26-57	6-20	18-23	37	11	12	7	4	12	25	19
		46%	30%	78%

Game Information

Akron, OH

ESPN+

Referee:Rob Kueneman

Referee:Alfred Smith

Referee:Tim Stewart

NCAA Division I

Mid-American Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Miami (OH)	18-0	-	32-2
Akron	17-1	1	29-6
Kent State	14-4	4	24-10
Toledo	11-7	7	19-15
Bowling Green	9-9	9	18-14
Ohio	9-9	9	15-17
Buffalo	7-11	11	17-15
Massachusetts	7-11	11	17-16
Ball State	7-11	11	12-19
Central Michigan	6-12	12	10-21
Western Michigan	4-14	14	10-21
Eastern Michigan	4-14	14	10-21
Northern Illinois	4-14	14	9-21

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