Northwestern Wildcats @ Illinois Fighting Illini

10-3, 1-1 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Northwestern NU	29	37	66
Illinois ILL	46	50	96

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

11-2, 2-0 Big Ten

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Matthew NicholsonM. Nicholson#34
Ty BerryTy Berry#3
Brooks BarnhizerB. Barnhizer#13
Ryan LangborgR. Langborg#5
Boo BuieB. Buie#0
bench
Gus HurlburtG. Hurlburt#54
Luke HungerL. Hunger#33
Nick MartinelliN. Martinelli#2
Blake PrestonB. Preston#32
Justin MullinsJ. Mullins#20
Jordan ClaytonJ. Clayton#11
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
31	14	6-10	2-4	0-0	4	0	1	2	0	0	4	2
37	9	3-12	1-2	2-2	4	1	2	0	0	3	1	2
23	2	1-7	0-2	0-0	4	4	1	0	0	0	4	2
27	20	6-14	2-4	6-6	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	10	4-6	2-3	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
29	7	3-6	1-1	0-0	5	1	1	1	0	2	3	1
7	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	2	1	1
5	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
7	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	66	25-61	8-16	8-8	24	8	10	3	0	8	16	20
		41%	50%	100%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Quincy GuerrierQ. Guerrier#13
Marcus DomaskM. Domask#3
Luke GoodeL. Goode#10
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Ty RodgersTy Rodgers#20
bench
Amani HansberryA. Hansberry#35
Dain DainjaD. Dainja#42
AJ ReddAJ Redd#5
Justin HarmonJ. Harmon#4
Dra Gibbs-LawhornD. Gibbs-Lawhorn#2
Max WilliamsM. Williams#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
35	14	6-9	1-2	1-3	10	0	0	0	1	2	8	1
35	32	11-15	1-1	9-10	5	6	3	0	1	1	4	2
32	6	2-5	1-4	1-1	5	1	1	1	0	2	3	3
35	13	5-9	2-5	1-2	5	2	2	1	2	1	4	1
19	6	2-4	0-0	2-2	3	4	2	0	0	2	1	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	20	7-11	4-5	2-2	2	2	1	0	1	0	2	1
6	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	96	35-56	10-18	16-20	35	17	10	2	5	9	26	13
		63%	56%	80%

Game Information

Champaign, IL

BTN

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Tim Comer

Referee:Eric Curry

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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