Evansville Purple Aces @ Southern Illinois Salukis

3-23, 0-15 MVC

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Evansville EVAN	17	14	15	14	60
S Illinois SIU	36	24	16	23	99

Southern Illinois SalukisS IllinoisSIU

15-10, 7-7 MVC

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
Jossie HudsonJ. Hudson#22
Jada PolandJ. Poland#5
Anna NewmanA. Newman #1
Abby FeitA. Feit#14
A'Niah GriffinA. Griffin#21
bench
NaTaya ParteeN. Partee#2
Kaylan CoffmanK. Coffman#42
Alexis ThomasA. Thomas#34
Sydne CaddyS. Caddy#15
Sydney TuckerS. Tucker#12
Lola BracyL. Bracy#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	4	2-3	0-0	0-2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
9	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
32	9	3-6	0-0	3-3	5	2	2	1	0	1	4	3
40	16	5-9	1-2	5-7	5	3	4	0	1	0	5	3
11	4	1-3	0-1	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4
9	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1
5	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1
17	0	0-3	0-3	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
11	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1
37	17	6-11	1-2	4-4	2	3	5	0	0	1	1	4
	60	21-45	4-13	14-18	23	12	20	1	1	4	19	24
		47%	31%	78%

Southern Illinois Salukis

starters
Abby BrockmeyerA. Brockmeyer#25
Nicole MartinN. Martin#34
Makenzie SilveyM. Silvey#12
Kristen NelsonK. Nelson#23
Brittney PatrickB. Patrick#10
bench
Awa KeitaA. Keita#35
Gabby WalkerG. Walker#20
Rachel PudlowskiR. Pudlowski#33
Lauren HartmanL. Hartman#31
Allea PotterA. Potter#22
Frankie KokkinesF. Kokkines #14
Payton McCallisterP. McCallister#21
Caitlin LinkC. Link#5
Caitlyn ClaussenC. Claussen#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	14	6-8	0-2	2-3	7	2	0	2	2	2	5	3
19	19	7-8	0-0	5-7	7	1	1	2	1	3	4	2
18	7	3-11	1-5	0-0	2	5	1	1	0	1	1	1
19	11	3-3	3-3	2-2	0	5	2	2	2	0	0	2
18	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	4	1-1	0-0	2-4	4	1	0	1	0	2	2	4
9	4	1-3	0-0	2-6	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	4
14	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	1	4	0	1	0	1	0	2
12	8	4-4	0-0	0-2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
8	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	0
18	15	5-9	5-8	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	2
21	5	2-5	1-4	0-0	5	3	0	0	0	0	5	0
4	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	99	37-63	12-27	13-24	35	26	7	10	5	12	23	22
		59%	44%	54%

Game Information

Carbondale, IL

ESPN+

Referee:Royce Blevins

Referee:Taryn Towns

NCAA Division I

Missouri Valley Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Murray State	19-1	-	31-4
Belmont	16-4	3	20-12
Illinois State	13-7	6	24-14
Bradley	13-7	6	20-13
Northern Iowa	13-7	6	18-14
Drake	10-10	9	12-20
UIC	9-11	10	14-18
Southern Illinois	7-13	12	10-20
Indiana State	5-15	14	10-22
Evansville	5-15	14	10-25
Valparaiso	0-20	19	0-32

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