Ohio State Buckeyes @ Illinois Fighting Illini

14-8, 6-3 Big Ten

Final/OT

	1	2	OT	T
Ohio State OSU	29	29	10	68
Illinois ILL	24	34	5	63

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

10-11, 2-6 Big Ten

Ohio State Buckeyes

starters
Keita Bates-DiopK. Bates-Diop#33
Jae'Sean TateJ. Tate#1
Marc LovingM. Loving#2
Daniel GiddensD. Giddens#4
A.J. HarrisA.J. Harris#12
bench
Mickey MitchellM. Mitchell#00
Trevor ThompsonT. Thompson#32
JaQuan LyleJ. Lyle#13
Kam WilliamsK. Williams#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
35	15	7-18	1-5	0-0	12	1	2	1	3	2	10	2
33	9	4-8	1-1	0-1	3	1	1	1	0	2	1	5
37	11	4-12	3-9	0-2	10	1	1	1	0	1	9	2
21	0	0-3	0-0	0-2	9	0	1	0	1	2	7	4
20	3	1-5	1-3	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	5	2-3	0-0	1-1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
23	16	7-7	0-0	2-2	5	0	2	0	0	3	2	4
25	2	0-5	0-2	2-2	7	3	4	0	1	1	6	1
20	7	2-8	1-3	2-3	2	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
	68	27-69	7-23	7-13	51	9	14	4	5	13	38	22
		39%	30%	54%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Michael FinkeM. Finke#43
Jalen Coleman-LandsJ. Coleman-Lands#5
Kendrick NunnK. Nunn#25
Malcolm HillM. Hill#21
Jaylon TateJ. Tate#1
bench
Maverick MorganM. Morgan#22
Aaron JordanA. Jordan#23
D.J. WilliamsD.J. Williams#0
Alex AustinA. Austin#44
Khalid LewisK. Lewis#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
30	6	2-8	1-5	1-4	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	1
27	11	3-11	3-9	2-2	6	1	0	0	0	0	6	3
44	24	7-15	5-11	5-9	5	1	3	1	0	0	5	0
40	12	3-14	0-3	6-8	8	2	2	0	0	2	6	4
29	2	0-1	0-1	2-2	4	3	1	0	0	0	4	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
30	8	3-6	0-0	2-6	5	0	1	2	0	1	4	2
4	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
16	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	1	1	1	0	0	2	2
	63	18-56	9-29	18-31	34	8	10	4	0	5	29	15
		32%	31%	58%

Game Information

Champaign, IL

Referee:John Gaffney

Referee:Donnie Eppley

Referee:Ted Valentine

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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