Evansville Purple Aces @ Belmont Bruins

7-1, 2-0 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Evansville EVAN	29	36	65
Belmont BEL	37	25	62

Belmont BruinsBelmontBEL

7-2, 4-1 Home

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
Egidijus MockeviciusE. Mockevicius#55
Blake SimmonsB. Simmons#50
Duane GibsonD. Gibson#4
D.J. BalentineD.J. Balentine#31
Adam WingA. Wing#12
bench
David HowardD. Howard#44
Jaylon MooreJ. Moore#10
Taylor StaffordT. Stafford#1
Jaylon BrownJ. Brown#3
Christian BenzonC. Benzon#2
Mislav BrzojaM. Brzoja#5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	8	2-2	0-0	4-6	8	0	0	0	3	1	7	2
30	7	2-4	1-2	2-2	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0
12	3	1-2	0-0	1-2	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	2
37	25	10-18	2-7	3-4	5	4	2	2	0	1	4	1
29	4	1-4	1-1	1-2	8	3	5	2	0	1	7	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	5	2-4	0-0	1-2	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	8	3-4	1-1	1-2	2	1	3	0	0	0	2	4
5	2	0-2	0-1	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
22	2	1-5	0-2	0-0	4	2	4	3	0	0	4	1
	65	22-45	5-14	16-24	33	12	17	7	4	4	29	14
		49%	36%	67%

Belmont Bruins

starters
Nick SmithN. Smith#2
Evan BraddsE. Bradds#35
Taylor BarnetteT. Barnette#20
Spencer TurnerS. Turner#11
Reece ChamberlainR. Chamberlain#22
bench
Mack MercerM. Mercer#25
Amanze EgekezeA. Egekeze#32
Tyler HaddenT. Hadden#41
Burton SampsonB. Sampson#21
Austin LukeA. Luke#1
Jeff LaidigJ. Laidig#43
Caleb ChowbayC. Chowbay#5
Holden MobleyH. Mobley#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	11	3-8	3-6	2-2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
25	13	5-11	1-4	2-2	3	0	4	0	0	2	1	1
24	5	2-8	1-5	0-0	4	0	1	3	0	0	4	3
29	10	4-10	2-7	0-0	2	1	3	0	0	0	2	0
33	2	1-11	0-3	0-0	14	8	3	0	1	5	9	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
21	13	5-6	3-3	0-0	1	0	3	2	1	0	1	1
3	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
6	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
7	6	1-1	1-1	3-4	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1
20	2	1-2	0-1	0-1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
	62	22-60	11-31	7-9	34	11	17	7	2	10	24	16
		37%	35%	78%

Game Information

Nashville, TN

Referee:Brett Miles

Referee:Coy Gammon

Referee:Sean Casey

NCAA Division I

Missouri Valley Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Belmont	16-4	-	26-6
Bradley	13-7	3	21-13
Illinois State	12-8	4	23-13
Murray State	12-8	4	20-13
UIC	12-8	4	19-16
Northern Iowa	11-9	5	23-13
Valparaiso	11-9	5	18-15
Southern Illinois	10-10	6	16-16
Drake	6-14	10	14-20
Indiana State	4-16	12	11-21
Evansville	3-17	13	7-25

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