Southern Illinois Salukis @ Evansville Purple Aces

16-15, 10-10 MVC

Final

	1	2	T
S Illinois SIU	38	43	81
Evansville EVAN	27	40	67

Evansville Purple AcesEvansvilleEVAN

7-24, 3-17 MVC

Southern Illinois Salukis

starters
Rolyns AligbeR. Aligbe#0
Prince AligbeP. Aligbe#8
Quel'Ron HouseQ. House#2
Damien Mayo Jr.D. Mayo Jr.#10
Drew SteffeD. Steffe#21
bench
Jorge MorenoJ. Moreno#25
Max PikaarM. Pikaar#35
Jaheem WebberJ. Webber#33
Jalen HaynesJ. Haynes#5
Caden HawkinsC. Hawkins#3
Davion SykesD. Sykes#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	4	2-6	0-2	0-0	6	1	0	1	0	1	5	4
29	14	6-8	0-0	2-2	12	1	1	1	0	6	6	2
27	10	4-12	0-1	2-2	3	6	2	1	0	1	2	2
32	23	6-15	4-10	7-8	3	0	0	1	0	1	2	1
39	16	6-8	4-5	0-0	3	3	0	1	0	1	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
21	9	4-11	1-4	0-0	4	4	1	0	0	0	4	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	5	2-3	0-0	1-1	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
	81	30-64	9-22	12-13	39	16	6	5	1	13	26	14
		47%	41%	92%

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
Joshua HughesJ. Hughes#11
AJ CaseyAJ Casey#23
Leif MoellerL. Moeller#6
Bryce QuinetB. Quinet#0
Alex HemenwayA. Hemenway#12
bench
Trent HundleyT. Hundley#45
Kaia BerridgeK. Berridge#9
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
39	16	5-10	2-6	4-4	6	1	0	2	0	3	3	2
37	16	5-12	1-3	5-8	8	2	2	0	2	1	7	1
40	10	4-11	2-6	0-0	6	4	3	0	0	0	6	2
35	9	4-9	0-2	1-1	0	7	2	0	0	0	0	4
20	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	16	5-8	3-6	3-3	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
7	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
	67	23-54	8-25	13-16	28	16	9	2	3	6	22	14
		43%	32%	81%

Game Information

Evansville, IN

Referee:Bret Smith

Referee:Gene Grimshaw

Referee:Cody Crum

NCAA Division I

Missouri Valley Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Belmont	16-4	-	26-5
Bradley	13-7	3	20-11
Illinois State	12-8	4	20-11
Murray State	12-8	4	20-11
UIC	12-8	4	17-14
Northern Iowa	11-9	5	19-12
Valparaiso	11-9	5	17-14
Southern Illinois	10-10	6	16-15
Drake	6-14	10	12-19
Indiana State	4-16	12	11-20
Evansville	3-17	13	7-24

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