Utah Valley Wolverines @ Rice Owls

CBI TOURNAMENT - QUARTERFINAL

17-16, 8-10 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Utah Valley UVU	45	40	85
Rice RICE	37	42	79

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23-12, 13-6 Home

Utah Valley Wolverines

starters
Zach NelsonZ. Nelson#21
Andrew BastienA. Bastien#42
Conner ToolsonC. Toolson#11
Jordan PoydrasJ. Poydras#10
Hayden SchenckH. Schenck#5
bench
Isaac NeilsonI. Neilson#22
Jared StutzmanJ. Stutzman#24
Ivory YoungI. Young#13
Kenneth OgbeK. Ogbe#25
Brandon RandolphB. Randolph#23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
16	0	0-3	0-0	0-0	6	0	4	2	0	2	4	2
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	13	5-9	1-4	2-2	1	3	2	2	0	1	0	4
32	14	6-16	2-11	0-0	3	3	3	3	0	1	2	2
27	9	2-2	2-2	3-6	3	1	2	1	0	0	3	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	7	3-4	0-0	1-2	9	1	2	0	2	3	6	3
8	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	1
26	20	7-11	4-6	2-3	3	0	3	0	0	0	3	4
22	17	5-10	3-5	4-4	6	2	1	1	0	3	3	1
15	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	2
	85	30-60	13-31	12-17	37	12	18	10	3	11	26	21
		50%	42%	71%

Rice Owls

starters
Marquez Letcher-EllisM. Letcher-Ellis#12
Connor CashawC. Cashaw#0
Egor KoulechovE. Koulechov#4
Marcus EvansM. Evans#2
Marcus JacksonM. Jackson#22
bench
Austin MeyerA. Meyer#30
Tim HarrisonT. Harrison#35
Andrew DroneA. Drone#54
Ako AdamsA. Adams#5
Chad LottC. Lott#21
Bishop MencyB. Mency#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	12	5-11	2-4	0-0	4	0	2	1	0	1	3	3
27	11	5-6	1-1	0-0	6	4	3	3	0	2	4	3
32	14	5-10	2-4	2-2	7	2	3	0	0	1	6	3
31	13	5-15	1-7	2-2	5	3	2	2	0	1	4	4
30	10	3-8	1-3	3-4	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
12	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	1
3	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
9	10	4-4	0-0	2-3	3	0	2	0	1	1	2	1
15	2	1-4	0-2	0-0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	2
16	5	1-4	0-0	3-5	2	1	2	2	0	1	1	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	79	30-65	7-21	12-16	34	14	16	9	2	11	23	18
		46%	33%	75%

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:Jon Stigliano

Referee:Marques Pettigrew

Referee:Rodrick Dixon

NCAA Division I

Western Athletic Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Utah Valley	11-4	-	21-7
Utah Tech	11-5	0.5	18-12
California Baptist	10-5	1	20-8
UT Arlington	7-9	4.5	15-13
Abilene Christian	5-10	6	13-15
Southern Utah	5-10	6	9-19
Tarleton State	5-11	6.5	14-15

American Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
South Florida	12-3	-	20-8
Tulsa	11-5	1.5	23-6
Wichita State	11-5	1.5	19-10
UAB	9-6	3	18-10
Charlotte	9-6	3	15-13
Tulane	8-7	4	17-11
Florida Atlantic	8-8	4.5	16-13
Temple	7-8	5	15-13
Memphis	7-8	5	12-16
North Texas	7-9	5.5	16-13
Rice	5-10	7	11-17
East Carolina	5-10	7	10-18
UTSA	1-15	11.5	5-23

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