Eastern Illinois Panthers @ Eastern Kentucky Colonels

11-6, 5-0 OVC

Final

	1	2	T
E Illinois EIU	41	31	72
E Kentucky EKU	29	36	65

Eastern Kentucky ColonelsE KentuckyEKU

10-6, 2-1 OVC

Eastern Illinois Panthers

starters
Josh PiperJ. Piper#55
Luke PiotrowskiL. Piotrowski#33
LeTrell ViserL. Viser#03
Terrell LewisT. Lewis#02
Dylan ChatmanD. Chatman#30
bench
Chris OlivierC. Olivier#35
Trae AndersonT. Anderson#15
Luke NormanL. Norman#10
Anthony JohnsonA. Johnson#11
Reggie SmithR. Smith#05
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	6	2-4	2-3	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	3	0	2	0
28	10	4-9	2-6	0-0	2	1	4	1	1	0	2	3
32	10	3-6	2-2	2-2	2	4	3	0	0	0	2	2
26	9	3-5	3-5	0-0	4	3	3	0	0	0	4	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	9	2-8	0-0	5-7	7	1	1	1	1	3	4	3
28	14	5-6	1-2	3-7	7	3	3	0	1	2	5	2
13	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	2
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	7	1-2	0-0	5-8	2	1	2	0	0	0	2	3
	72	23-43	11-19	15-24	32	15	18	3	6	5	27	16
		53%	58%	63%

Eastern Kentucky Colonels

starters
Eric StutzE. Stutz#42
Denzel RichardsonD. Richardson#3
Isaac McGloneI. McGlone#5
Timmy KnippT. Knipp#22
Corey WaldenC. Walden#2
bench
Ja'Mill PowellJ. Powell#32
Paul JacksonP. Jackson#0
Tommy MatthewsT. Matthews#4
Deverin MuffD. Muff#33
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
30	7	2-7	0-1	3-4	4	1	3	1	2	2	2	5
31	3	1-6	0-4	1-2	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
34	3	1-4	1-3	0-0	3	2	2	1	0	0	3	1
29	8	2-10	1-7	3-4	4	2	4	2	0	0	4	1
36	29	11-20	4-8	3-4	4	2	1	2	0	1	3	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	13	2-4	1-2	8-9	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	1	2	1	0	2	3
7	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
	65	20-53	7-25	18-23	26	9	11	8	3	7	19	20
		38%	28%	78%

Game Information

Richmond, KY

Referee:Eric Ballenger

Referee:Bret Smith

Referee:John Boylan

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

Atlantic Sun Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Austin Peay	15-3	-	22-9
Central Arkansas	15-3	-	22-12
Queens University	13-5	2	21-14
Lipscomb	12-6	3	19-13
Florida Gulf Coast	8-10	7	16-18
West Georgia	8-10	7	15-17
Bellarmine	7-11	8	13-19
Jacksonville	7-11	8	12-20
Stetson	7-11	8	12-21
Eastern Kentucky	7-11	8	11-21
North Florida	5-13	10	7-25
North Alabama	4-14	11	9-21

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