UConn Huskies vs Illinois Fighting Illini

Men's Basketball Championship - East Region - Elite 8

29-9

Final

	1	2	T
Illinois ILL	23	29	52
UConn CONN	28	49	77

UConn HuskiesUConnCONN

35-3

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Quincy GuerrierQ. Guerrier#13
Marcus DomaskM. Domask#3
Ty RodgersTy Rodgers#20
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Terrence Shannon Jr.T. Shannon Jr. #0
bench
Amani HansberryA. Hansberry#35
Dain DainjaD. Dainja#42
Luke GoodeL. Goode#10
Niccolo MorettiN. Moretti#11
Justin HarmonJ. Harmon#4
Dra Gibbs-LawhornD. Gibbs-Lawhorn#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	7	3-10	1-4	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	2
35	17	7-13	2-3	1-2	3	1	3	2	0	0	3	3
8	0	0-5	0-0	0-2	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
32	5	2-10	1-7	0-0	4	1	1	0	1	1	3	3
36	8	2-12	0-1	4-6	2	3	0	0	1	1	1	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	8	2-4	2-3	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
9	0	0-3	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
25	0	0-3	0-3	0-0	6	2	2	0	0	1	5	3
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	5	1-4	0-1	3-3	3	0	0	1	0	0	3	0
9	2	0-3	0-1	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	52	17-67	6-23	12-17	36	7	7	3	4	14	22	15
		25%	26%	71%

UConn Huskies

starters
Alex KarabanA. Karaban#11
Donovan ClinganD. Clingan#32
Stephon CastleS. Castle#5
Tristen NewtonT. Newton#2
Cam SpencerC. Spencer#12
bench
Youssouf SingareY. Singare#24
Jayden RossJ. Ross#23
Jaylin StewartJ. Stewart#3
Apostolos RoumoglouA. Roumoglou#33
Samson JohnsonS. Johnson#35
Andre Johnson Jr.A. Johnson Jr.#40
Solo BallS. Ball#1
Andrew HurleyA. Hurley#20
Hassan DiarraH. Diarra#10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	10	4-7	1-4	1-1	3	1	1	0	1	1	2	2
22	22	9-13	0-1	4-8	10	1	0	3	5	3	7	1
23	2	1-6	0-2	0-0	6	5	2	0	1	0	6	3
31	5	0-6	0-3	5-6	3	5	1	0	0	0	3	3
32	11	4-9	1-3	2-2	12	5	0	1	2	3	9	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
11	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
17	10	5-6	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	2	1-4	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	11	5-6	1-2	0-0	3	2	2	0	0	0	3	3
	77	31-60	3-17	12-17	45	21	9	5	10	8	37	17
		52%	18%	71%

Game Information

Boston, MA

Referee:Doug Shows

Referee:Terry Oglesby

Referee:Byron Jarrett

NCAA Division I

Big Ten Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Michigan	12-1	-	22-1
Illinois	11-2	1	20-4
Nebraska	10-2	1.5	21-2
Michigan State	10-3	2	20-4
Purdue	9-3	2.5	19-4
UCLA	9-4	3	17-7
Iowa	8-4	3.5	18-5
Wisconsin	8-4	3.5	16-7
Indiana	8-6	4.5	17-8
USC	7-6	5	18-6
Ohio State	7-6	5	15-8
Washington	4-9	8	12-12
Minnesota	4-9	8	11-13
Maryland	2-10	9.5	9-14
Northwestern	2-11	10	10-14
Rutgers	2-11	10	9-15
Penn State	1-12	11	10-14
Oregon	1-12	11	8-16

Big East Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
UConn	12-1	-	22-2
St. John's	12-1	-	19-5
Villanova	9-3	2.5	18-5
Creighton	7-6	5	13-11
Seton Hall	6-7	6	16-8
Georgetown	5-8	7	13-11
Butler	4-9	8	13-11
Xavier	4-9	8	12-12
DePaul	4-9	8	12-12
Providence	4-9	8	11-13
Marquette	4-9	8	9-15

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