Michigan State Spartans @ Illinois Fighting Illini

17-1, 6-0 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Michigan St MSU	35	43	78
Illinois ILL	25	37	62

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

13-6, 2-4 Big Ten

Michigan State Spartans

starters
Matt CostelloM. Costello#10
Branden DawsonB. Dawson#22
Denzel ValentineD. Valentine#45
Gary HarrisG. Harris#14
Keith ApplingK. Appling#11
bench
Gavin SchillingG. Schilling#34
Kenny KaminskiK. Kaminski#30
Alex GaunaA. Gauna#2
Alvin Ellis IIIA. Ellis III#3
Travis Trice IIT. Trice II#20
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
25	8	4-5	0-0	0-1	5	0	2	0	6	0	5	2
30	9	4-7	0-0	1-2	6	1	1	1	1	3	3	2
34	15	6-9	2-3	1-2	11	4	1	0	0	2	9	3
34	23	7-9	2-4	7-10	5	4	2	2	0	0	5	2
35	15	5-12	1-3	4-6	5	4	3	1	0	1	4	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	1
10	6	2-4	1-3	1-1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
6	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
8	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
13	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
	78	29-52	6-15	14-22	38	15	13	5	7	9	29	16
		56%	40%	64%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Nnanna EgwuN. Egwu#32
Jon EkeyJ. Ekey#33
Tracy AbramsT. Abrams#13
Rayvonte RiceR. Rice#24
Joseph BertrandJ. Bertrand#2
bench
Maverick MorganM. Morgan#22
Kendrick NunnK. Nunn#25
Malcolm HillM. Hill#21
Jaylon TateJ. Tate#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	0	0-3	0-0	0-1	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	4
27	12	5-10	2-6	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	3
31	15	3-11	1-3	8-8	3	3	1	1	0	0	3	3
33	12	5-15	2-7	0-0	5	2	1	0	0	2	3	1
22	4	2-5	0-2	0-0	2	0	2	1	0	1	1	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
16	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	2
29	5	2-7	1-3	0-0	3	2	2	0	1	0	3	3
13	8	3-5	1-2	1-1	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
7	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	1
	62	23-61	7-23	9-10	25	8	9	5	1	9	16	21
		38%	30%	90%

Game Information

Champaign, IL

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Bo Boroski

Referee:Eric Curry

NCAA Division I

Big Ten Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Michigan	19-1	-	37-3
Nebraska	15-5	4	28-7
Michigan State	15-5	4	27-8
Illinois	15-5	4	28-9
Wisconsin	14-6	5	24-11
Purdue	13-7	6	30-9
UCLA	13-7	6	24-12
Ohio State	12-8	7	21-13
Iowa	10-10	9	24-13
Indiana	9-11	10	18-14
Minnesota	8-12	11	15-18
USC	7-13	12	18-14
Washington	7-13	12	16-17
Rutgers	6-14	13	14-20
Northwestern	5-15	14	15-19
Oregon	5-15	14	12-20
Maryland	4-16	15	12-21
Penn State	3-17	16	12-20

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