Evansville Purple Aces @ Southern Illinois Salukis

18-8, 8-6 MVC

Final

	1	2	T
Evansville EVAN	30	42	72
S Illinois SIU	29	35	64

Southern Illinois SalukisS IllinoisSIU

10-17, 3-11 MVC

Evansville Purple Aces

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

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	10	4-5	0-0	2-2	4	1	1	0	0	2	2	4
28	6	1-3	0-2	4-4	4	2	0	2	1	0	4	0
9	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	3	0	0	0	1	2
38	15	5-15	1-5	4-5	2	5	4	0	1	1	1	2
29	4	1-3	0-0	2-2	4	3	1	1	0	0	4	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
24	13	6-7	0-0	1-1	3	0	1	1	0	1	2	3
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	12	6-8	0-0	0-3	3	2	3	2	0	1	2	4
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	12	4-6	2-2	2-2	4	3	2	0	1	1	3	5
	72	27-48	3-9	15-19	26	17	15	6	3	6	20	25
		56%	33%	79%

Southern Illinois Salukis

starters
Jordan CarolineJ. Caroline#14
Sean O'BrienS. O'Brien#33
Deion LavenderD. Lavender#5
Tyler SmithpetersT. Smithpeters#11
Anthony BeaneA. Beane#25
bench
Ibby DjimdeI. Djimde#10
Dawson VerhinesD. Verhines#24
Jalen PendletonJ. Pendleton#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
36	13	4-11	0-0	5-8	15	1	4	2	0	9	6	2
25	9	4-4	1-1	0-2	3	1	2	1	0	0	3	4
31	11	4-10	1-5	2-4	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	3
36	11	3-6	2-5	3-4	3	0	3	2	1	1	2	3
34	11	4-11	0-2	3-4	4	1	2	1	0	2	2	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	2	0-1	0-0	2-2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4
9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
21	7	1-5	0-1	5-6	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	3
	64	20-48	4-14	20-30	31	4	17	6	2	14	17	23
		42%	29%	67%

Game Information

Carbondale, IL

Referee:Don Olson

Referee:Roland Simmons

Referee:Tom Fitzgerald

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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