Akron Zips @ Northern Kentucky Norse

6-3, 2-1 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Akron AKR	41	36	77
N Kentucky NKU	37	39	76

Northern Kentucky NorseN KentuckyNKU

5-5, 4-1 Home

Akron Zips

starters
Enrique FreemanE. Freeman#25
Sammy HunterS. Hunter#11
Ali AliA. Ali#24
Nate JohnsonN. Johnson#34
Greg TribbleG. Tribble#2
bench
Shammah ScottS. Scott#1
Kaleb ThorntonK. Thornton#3
Mikal DawsonM. Dawson#22
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
34	21	10-12	0-0	1-2	10	0	3	1	1	2	8	2
28	20	7-10	5-7	1-2	4	1	1	0	0	1	3	0
29	13	5-8	1-2	2-2	2	5	6	1	0	0	2	4
29	13	6-10	1-3	0-1	3	2	0	0	0	2	1	3
32	7	3-6	0-2	1-2	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
15	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	2
20	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	2
13	3	1-5	1-4	0-0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	2
	77	32-55	8-22	5-9	29	18	13	3	1	7	22	18
		58%	36%	56%

Northern Kentucky Norse

starters
LJ WellsLJ Wells#5
Keeyan ItejereK. Itejere#40
Sam VinsonS. Vinson#2
Marques WarrickM. Warrick#3
Trey RobinsonT. Robinson#1
bench
Cesar TchilomboC. Tchilombo#15
Cade MeyerC. Meyer#10
Jeramiah IsraelJ. Israel#14
Michael BradleyM. Bradley#22
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	4	2-3	0-1	0-0	3	1	1	1	0	2	1	2
33	4	2-5	0-0	0-4	6	0	1	0	1	4	2	3
37	10	4-13	1-3	1-2	5	3	1	4	0	0	5	2
37	30	8-18	1-6	13-17	6	2	0	3	0	1	5	0
31	20	9-11	2-3	0-1	7	1	2	1	0	4	3	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	0	0-3	0-0	0-0	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	1
26	6	3-6	0-2	0-0	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	4
	76	29-60	4-15	14-24	32	12	9	9	1	14	18	15
		48%	27%	58%

Game Information

Highland Heights, KY

Referee:Tim Stewart

Referee:Edwin Young

Referee:Sutton Simon

NCAA Division I

Mid-American Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Miami (OH)	17-0	-	30-0
Akron	16-1	1	25-5
Kent State	13-4	4	22-8
Toledo	10-7	7	16-14
Ohio	9-8	8	15-15
Bowling Green	8-9	9	17-13
Buffalo	7-10	10	17-13
Massachusetts	7-11	10.5	16-15
Ball State	6-11	11	11-19
Central Michigan	6-11	11	10-20
Western Michigan	4-13	13	10-20
Eastern Michigan	4-13	13	10-20
Northern Illinois	4-13	13	9-20

Horizon League	CONF	GB	OVR
Wright State	15-5	-	21-11
Robert Morris	13-7	2	22-10
Green Bay	12-8	3	18-14
Detroit Mercy	12-8	3	16-14
Oakland	12-8	3	16-16
Purdue Fort Wayne	11-9	4	17-15
Northern Kentucky	10-10	5	19-13
Youngstown State	8-12	7	15-17
Milwaukee	8-12	7	12-20
Cleveland State	6-14	9	11-22
IU Indianapolis	3-17	12	7-25

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