Eastern Illinois Panthers @ Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

3-4, 1-3 Away

Final

	1	2	T
E Illinois EIU	24	29	53
Western KY WKU	28	40	68

Western Kentucky HilltoppersWestern KYWKU

4-2, 4-0 Home

Eastern Illinois Panthers

starters
Sherman BlanfordS. Blanford#15
Keenen AndersonK. Anderson#12
Josh PiperJ. Piper#55
Alex AustinA. Austin#31
Reggie SmithR. Smith#5
bench
Jake VerhagenJ. Verhagen#25
Luke PiotrowskiL. Piotrowski#33
Mat PiotrowskiM. Piotrowski#41
Dylan ChatmanD. Chatman#30
Anthony JohnsonA. Johnson#11
Zach DickersonZ. Dickerson#3
Dennis GreenD. Green#10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	3	3	4	2	0	0	3	1
13	6	2-2	0-0	2-2	4	0	0	0	1	3	1	2
15	2	1-5	0-2	0-0	4	0	1	0	0	0	4	4
32	7	3-9	1-4	0-1	2	4	2	1	0	0	2	1
31	16	4-9	2-4	6-10	2	3	2	1	1	0	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	9	3-4	3-4	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
12	5	2-5	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
15	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
26	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	2
15	6	2-6	0-2	2-2	2	0	2	1	0	0	2	2
	53	18-45	6-17	11-17	24	12	14	5	2	6	18	19
		40%	35%	65%

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

starters
Ben LawsonB. Lawson#14
George FantG. Fant#44
Payton HulseyP. Hulsey#0
T.J. PriceT.J. Price#52
Caden DickersonC. Dickerson#10
bench
Aleksej RostovA. Rostov#20
Aaron AdeoyeA. Adeoye#11
Nigel SnipesN. Snipes#21
Brandon PriceB. Price#2
Kevin KasparK. Kaspar#1
Brandon HarrisB. Harris#12
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
4	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
33	20	7-10	0-0	6-9	5	0	2	1	1	1	4	3
17	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	4	2	2	0	0	1	0
24	13	4-8	1-4	4-4	5	3	1	0	0	0	5	4
14	3	1-3	1-3	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	4	1-1	0-0	2-2	6	1	2	0	1	2	4	3
14	8	4-5	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
11	6	2-3	0-1	2-2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
26	9	3-6	1-3	2-2	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	2
31	2	1-9	0-7	0-0	8	1	3	0	0	4	4	3
	68	24-48	4-21	16-19	31	14	12	4	2	8	23	19
		50%	19%	84%

Game Information

Bowling Green, KY

Referee:Tim Gattis

Referee:Brent Miles

Referee:Chuck Jones

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

NCAA Division I

Conference USA	CONF	GB	OVR
Liberty	17-3	-	26-8
Sam Houston	13-7	4	22-12
Louisiana Tech	11-9	6	20-14
Western Kentucky	11-9	6	18-14
Middle Tennessee	11-9	6	17-15
Kennesaw State	10-10	7	21-14
Jacksonville State	10-10	7	15-17
New Mexico State	8-12	9	16-16
Missouri State	8-12	9	16-18
Florida International	8-12	9	15-17
UTEP	7-13	10	11-20
Delaware	6-14	11	10-21

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