Houston Cougars vs SIU Edwardsville Cougars

Men's Basketball Championship - Midwest Region - 1st Round

22-12

Final

	1	2	T
SIUE SIUE	24	16	40
Houston HOU	52	26	78

Houston CougarsHoustonHOU

31-4

SIU Edwardsville Cougars

starters
Kyle ThomasK. Thomas#24
Ring MalithR. Malith#0
Brian Taylor IIB. Taylor II#11
Ray'Sean TaylorR. Taylor#3
Desmond PolkD. Polk#2
bench
Myles ThompsonM. Thompson#21
Arnas SakenisA. Sakenis#34
Cham OkeyC. Okey#23
Jordan HamiltonJ. Hamilton#10
Declan DillonD. Dillon#5
Eddiean TiradoE. Tirado#40
Jordan PickettJ. Pickett#1
Raynard HorryR. Horry#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
16	3	1-1	0-0	1-2	2	1	3	0	2	0	2	2
25	0	0-5	0-2	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1
24	10	4-9	0-4	2-2	4	1	2	0	0	0	4	2
33	10	3-13	1-8	3-4	5	2	1	0	0	0	5	2
22	5	2-8	1-6	0-1	3	2	0	0	0	2	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	5	2-3	0-0	1-2	1	1	2	2	0	0	1	3
20	5	2-3	0-0	1-4	2	1	2	0	4	1	1	2
2	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
12	2	1-3	0-0	0-2	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	2
2	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
16	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	40	15-49	2-24	8-17	27	11	13	4	6	7	20	16
		31%	8%	47%

Houston Cougars

starters
Joseph TuglerJ. Tugler#11
J'Wan RobertsJ. Roberts#13
Milos UzanM. Uzan#7
Emanuel SharpE. Sharp#21
LJ CryerL.J. Cryer#4
bench
Ja'Vier FrancisJ. Francis#5
Cedric LathC. Lath#2
Terrance ArceneauxT. Arceneaux#23
Kordel JeffersonK. Jefferson#0
Mercy MillerM. Miller#25
Mylik WilsonM. Wilson#8
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
17	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	5	1	0	2	1	2	3	1
20	6	3-5	0-0	0-0	3	0	2	0	0	1	2	0
23	16	6-7	2-2	2-2	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	1
25	8	2-8	2-6	2-2	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	2
21	15	5-12	4-9	1-2	1	4	0	1	0	0	1	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
15	13	4-4	0-0	5-6	8	0	0	1	0	4	4	1
8	1	0-1	0-0	1-2	3	0	0	0	1	3	0	1
26	10	4-8	1-3	1-2	4	0	1	2	0	0	4	2
9	5	2-6	1-3	0-1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
14	2	0-6	0-3	2-2	5	1	0	1	1	1	4	0
22	2	1-7	0-2	0-0	9	2	3	0	1	3	6	2
	78	27-66	10-28	14-19	50	11	7	11	5	19	31	13
		41%	36%	74%

Game Information

Wichita, KS

Referee:Doug Shows

Referee:Jason Baker

Referee:Antinio Petty

NCAA Division I

Ohio Valley Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Tennessee State	15-5	-	23-10
Morehead State	15-5	-	20-13
Southeast Missouri State	14-6	1	20-13
UT Martin	13-7	2	22-11
SIU Edwardsville	12-8	3	19-13
Lindenwood	11-9	4	18-15
Little Rock	9-11	6	12-20
Tennessee Tech	8-12	7	13-18
Eastern Illinois	8-12	7	13-20
Southern Indiana	4-16	11	7-23
Western Illinois	1-19	14	5-26

Big 12 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Arizona	16-2	-	36-3
Houston	14-4	2	30-7
Iowa State	12-6	4	29-8
Kansas	12-6	4	24-11
Texas Tech	12-6	4	23-11
TCU	11-7	5	23-12
BYU	9-9	7	23-12
UCF	9-9	7	21-12
West Virginia	9-9	7	21-14
Cincinnati	9-9	7	18-15
Colorado	7-11	9	17-16
Arizona State	7-11	9	17-16
Oklahoma State	6-12	10	20-15
Baylor	6-12	10	17-17
Kansas State	3-15	13	12-20
Utah	2-16	14	10-22

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