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
L.J. 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
UT Martin	11-3	-	19-6
Tennessee State	10-4	1	16-8
Southeast Missouri State	10-4	1	15-10
SIU Edwardsville	9-5	2	16-9
Lindenwood	9-5	2	15-10
Morehead State	9-5	2	13-12
Eastern Illinois	6-8	5	10-15
Little Rock	6-8	5	9-16
Tennessee Tech	5-9	6	10-15
Southern Indiana	2-12	9	5-19
Western Illinois	0-14	11	4-21

Big 12 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Arizona	10-0	-	23-0
Houston	9-1	1	21-2
Iowa State	8-2	2	21-2
Kansas	8-2	2	18-5
Texas Tech	7-3	3	17-6
UCF	6-5	4.5	17-6
West Virginia	6-5	4.5	15-9
BYU	5-5	5	17-6
Oklahoma State	4-6	6	16-7
TCU	4-6	6	14-9
Colorado	4-7	6.5	14-10
Cincinnati	4-7	6.5	12-12
Baylor	3-8	7.5	13-10
Arizona State	3-8	7.5	12-12
Kansas State	1-9	9	10-13
Utah	1-9	9	9-14

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