Northwestern Wildcats @ Illinois Fighting Illini

8-15, 3-9 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Northwestern NU	12	14	18	27	71
Illinois ILL	20	21	22	19	82

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

11-11, 5-7 Big Ten

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Caileigh WalshC. Walsh#10
Paige MottP. Mott#20
Casey HarterC. Harter#12
Hailey WeaverH. Weaver#11
Caroline LauC. Lau#2
bench
Crystal Fuqu WangC. Wang#31
Alana GoodchildA. Goodchild#22
Mel DaleyM. Daley#21
Maggie PinaM. Pina#3
Jasmine McWilliamsJ. McWilliams#23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	9	3-8	0-2	3-6	4	0	3	0	0	1	3	3
28	13	6-10	0-0	1-2	9	3	0	2	0	3	6	3
29	7	2-7	0-2	3-3	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
22	10	4-9	2-5	0-0	4	1	1	1	1	1	3	2
23	3	1-8	0-3	1-2	4	3	2	2	0	2	2	5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
4	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	8	4-9	0-0	0-0	3	6	1	2	0	2	1	4
28	15	3-5	3-5	6-6	2	1	3	0	0	0	2	2
9	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	1	3	0	0	1	1	1
	71	26-61	5-18	14-19	30	18	15	7	1	12	18	21
		43%	28%	74%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Kendall BosticK. Bostic#44
Camille HobbyC. Hobby#41
Adalia McKenzieA. McKenzie#24
Makira CookM. Cook#3
Genesis BryantG. Bryant#1
bench
Brynn Shoup-HillB. Shoup-Hill#23
Shay BollinS. Bollin#22
Gretchen DolanG. Dolan#5
Cori AllenC. Allen#2
Kam'Ren RhodesK. Rhodes#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
33	8	3-6	0-1	2-2	13	0	1	1	1	1	12	4
25	9	3-8	0-0	3-4	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	2
32	20	8-11	0-1	4-5	5	2	3	2	0	4	1	3
26	19	5-8	0-1	9-11	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	3
38	9	3-9	0-4	3-3	4	7	4	3	0	1	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	4
9	8	3-3	2-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
26	9	3-10	1-3	2-2	3	1	2	0	1	2	1	1
2	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	82	28-57	3-12	23-27	36	13	13	8	2	11	25	20
		49%	25%	85%

Game Information

Champaign, IL

Referee:Bruce Morris

Referee:Mark Berger

Referee:Nykesha Thompson

NCAA Division I

Big Ten Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
UCLA	18-0	-	37-1
Michigan	15-3	3	28-7
Iowa	15-3	3	27-7
Ohio State	13-5	5	27-8
Minnesota	13-5	5	24-9
Maryland	11-7	7	24-9
Michigan State	11-7	7	23-9
Washington	10-8	8	22-11
Illinois	9-9	9	22-12
USC	9-9	9	18-14
Oregon	8-10	10	23-13
Nebraska	7-11	11	19-13
Indiana	6-12	12	18-14
Wisconsin	5-13	13	16-18
Purdue	5-13	13	13-17
Penn State	4-14	14	11-18
Northwestern	2-16	16	8-21
Rutgers	1-17	17	9-20

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Women's Way-Too-Early Top 25: New No. 1, more risers after transfer portal rebuilds

South Carolina jumps to the top after making key additions, and Duke and USC join the top five.

Mad Dog calls NCAA tournament expansion 'absurd'

Chris "Mad Dog" Russo furiously explains why he dislikes the NCAA tournament expanding to 76 teams.

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