Northwestern Wildcats @ Illinois Fighting Illini

12-8, 3-6 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Northwestern NU	21	53	74
Illinois ILL	43	40	83

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

14-6, 6-4 Big Ten

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Nick MartinelliN. Martinelli#2
Matthew NicholsonM. Nicholson#34
Angelo CiaravinoA. Ciaravino#44
Jalen LeachJ. Leach#1
Brooks BarnhizerB. Barnhizer#13
bench
Luke HungerL. Hunger#33
Keenan FitzmorrisK. Fitzmorris#5
Justin MullinsJ. Mullins#20
K.J. WindhamK.J. Windham#24
Ty BerryTy Berry#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
36	17	7-19	3-9	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
14	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	3	0	2	0	2	2	1	2
20	2	1-4	0-1	0-0	4	2	0	1	1	2	2	0
35	17	7-15	2-5	1-2	2	4	1	1	0	0	2	3
26	3	1-7	0-1	1-2	3	2	1	1	0	0	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
14	8	3-4	0-0	2-2	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	2
5	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
12	7	3-3	1-1	0-0	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	4
30	10	4-10	2-4	0-0	6	2	0	2	0	1	5	2
	74	30-68	10-25	4-6	27	16	6	6	3	9	18	17
		44%	40%	67%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Ben HumrichousB. Humrichous#3
Morez Johnson Jr.M. Johnson Jr.#21
Kasparas JakucionisK. Jakucionis#32
Tre WhiteT. White#22
Kylan BoswellK. Boswell#4
bench
Jake DavisJ. Davis#15
Will RileyW. Riley#7
Dra Gibbs-LawhornD. Gibbs-Lawhorn#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
29	14	4-12	4-9	2-2	4	1	1	0	1	2	2	1
35	15	5-8	0-0	5-9	9	1	2	0	3	5	4	3
35	11	5-10	1-5	0-1	10	7	3	1	1	3	7	0
21	8	4-8	0-3	0-0	3	3	0	1	0	1	2	0
28	17	4-8	0-3	9-10	6	4	3	0	1	2	4	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
16	11	4-7	3-6	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
17	4	2-9	0-3	0-0	5	0	2	0	0	3	2	3
19	3	1-3	1-3	0-2	4	2	1	0	0	0	4	2
	83	29-65	9-32	16-24	50	18	13	2	6	21	29	10
		45%	28%	67%

Morez Johnson Jr. rocks the rim with powerful dunk

0:28

Tre White makes beautiful pass for a basket

0:19

Kylan Boswell with the and-1 bucket

0:19

Game Information

Champaign, IL

BTN

Referee:Ron Groover

Referee:Doug Sirmons

Referee:Andy O'Brien

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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