DePaul Blue Demons @ Illinois Fighting Illini

GAVITT TIPOFF GAMES

1-2, 0-1 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
DePaul DEP	32	41			73
Illinois ILL	39	43			82

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

3-0, 3-0 Home

DePaul Blue Demons

starters
Tre'Darius McCallumT. McCallum#10
Marin MaricM. Maric#34
Max StrusM. Strus#31
Devin GageD. Gage#3
Elijah CainE. Cain#11
bench
Paul ReedP. Reed#15
Jaylen ButzJ. Butz#2
Peter RyckboschP. Ryckbosch#30
Justin RobertsJ. Roberts#0
Brandon CyrusB. Cyrus#4
Austin GrandstaffA. Grandstaff#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	4	1	3	0	0	2	2	4
21	12	5-10	0-0	2-2	5	0	1	1	1	4	1	5
33	15	3-9	3-7	6-7	5	1	1	1	0	2	3	4
10	4	2-5	0-0	0-0	3	0	2	0	0	1	2	2
22	8	2-9	0-2	4-6	3	2	3	0	0	1	2	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
19	4	1-3	0-0	2-4	7	0	1	0	1	2	5	5
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	19	7-15	3-4	2-2	5	5	1	2	1	0	5	3
28	11	3-8	0-3	5-6	2	1	3	1	0	1	1	2
9	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	2
	73	23-63	6-19	21-27	36	11	17	5	3	15	21	32
		37%	32%	78%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Michael FinkeM. Finke#43
Leron BlackL. Black#12
Mark SmithM. Smith#13
Te'Jon LucasT. Lucas#3
Mark AlstorkM. Alstork#24
bench
Greg EboigbodinG. Eboigbodin#11
Kipper NicholsK. Nichols#2
Da'Monte WilliamsD. Williams#20
Trent FrazierT. Frazier#1
Aaron JordanA. Jordan#23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	9	3-8	0-3	3-3	5	3	2	0	3	3	2	3
17	8	4-8	0-1	0-0	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	5
23	21	4-10	1-5	12-12	3	3	2	1	0	2	1	4
19	6	2-6	0-1	2-4	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	3
17	1	0-1	0-1	1-2	5	3	4	1	1	2	3	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	1
25	16	6-11	2-3	2-3	4	0	0	1	0	0	4	4
23	8	2-8	0-3	4-6	5	1	2	0	0	4	1	2
19	6	2-4	1-3	1-2	3	0	2	0	0	1	2	1
22	7	2-4	1-3	2-4	9	0	0	2	0	3	6	2
	82	25-60	5-23	27-36	38	14	18	6	4	19	19	27
		42%	22%	75%

Game Information

Champaign, IL

Referee:Brian O'Connell

Referee:Earl Walton

Referee:Mike Eades

NCAA Division I

Big East Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
St. John's	18-2	-	30-7
UConn	17-3	1	34-6
Villanova	15-5	3	24-9
Seton Hall	10-10	8	21-12
Creighton	9-11	9	16-18
DePaul	8-12	10	16-16
Butler	7-13	11	16-16
Providence	7-13	11	15-18
Marquette	7-13	11	12-20
Georgetown	6-14	12	16-18
Xavier	6-14	12	15-18

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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