Illinois 81-56 Northwestern (8 Jan, 2021) Box Score

Illinois Fighting Illini

9-3, 5-1 conf

	1	2	T
ILL	28	53	81
NU	43	13	56

Northwestern Wildcats

6-4, 3-3 conf

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
K. Cockburn C
A. Miller G
A. Dosunmu G
D. Williams G
T. Frazier G
bench
J. Hamlin F
B. Bosmans-Verdonk F
C. Hawkins F
G. Bezhanishvili F
A. Curbelo G
J. Grandison G
T. Underwood G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
28	8-9	0-0	2-4	5	7	12	0	0	2	1	3	18
33	5-12	4-11	0-0	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	14
30	5-11	1-2	4-4	0	5	5	6	0	0	4	2	15
23	2-5	2-4	0-0	2	4	6	1	0	0	2	1	6
34	3-9	3-8	5-5	0	3	3	3	0	0	2	4	14
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
13	1-1	0-0	1-2	1	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	3
20	2-7	0-1	2-2	0	4	4	7	2	1	4	4	6
12	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	1	2	2	2	0	0	1	3
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	27-55	11-27	16-21	10	31	41	19	4	4	15	17	81
	49.1%	40.7%	76.2%

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
R. Beran F
P. Nance F
M. Kopp F
B. Buie G
C. Audige G
bench
M. Nicholson C
R. Young C
T. Berry G
R. Greer G
A. Gaines G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
24	3-6	2-4	3-4	0	5	5	4	0	0	1	1	11
25	3-12	1-6	2-2	1	2	3	2	2	0	2	1	9
33	2-7	0-2	4-5	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	2	8
15	0-6	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	0
19	1-7	0-2	2-4	0	3	3	1	2	0	2	2	4
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
15	3-5	1-1	2-2	2	3	5	2	2	0	2	2	9
17	2-4	1-2	0-0	0	1	1	1	3	0	0	1	5
25	1-3	0-0	0-0	0	3	3	1	0	0	1	0	2
26	3-5	1-2	1-1	2	2	4	1	0	0	1	2	8
	18-55	6-20	14-18	7	22	29	13	10	0	13	16	56
	32.7%	30.0%	77.8%

Welsh-Ryan Arena

2:00 AM, 8 January 2021

Evanston, IL

Referees:
Larry Scirotto
Chris Beaver
Lewis Garrison

Team	CONF	GB	OVR
Purdue	17-3	-	34-5
Illinois	14-6	3	29-9
Nebraska	12-8	5	23-11
Northwestern	12-8	5	22-12
Wisconsin	11-9	6	22-14
Indiana	10-10	7	19-14
Michigan State	10-10	7	20-15
Iowa	10-10	7	19-15
Ohio State	9-11	8	22-14
Minnesota	9-11	8	19-15
Penn State	9-11	8	16-17
Maryland	7-13	10	16-17
Rutgers	7-13	10	15-17
Michigan	3-17	14	8-24

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