Belmont Bruins @ Southern Illinois Salukis

9-6, 2-2 MVC

Final

	1	2	T
Belmont BEL	28	17	45
S Illinois SIU	23	40	63

Southern Illinois SalukisS IllinoisSIU

11-4, 3-1 MVC

Belmont Bruins

starters
Even BraunsE. Brauns#0
Drew FribergD. Friberg#12
Cade TysonC. Tyson#10
Keishawn DavidsonK. Davidson#3
Ben SheppardB. Sheppard#22
bench
Frank JakubicekF. Jakubicek#25
Michael ShanksM. Shanks#11
Derek SabinD. Sabin#21
Kyler VanderjagtK. Vanderjagt#4
Ja'Kobi GillespieJ. Gillespie#2
Isaiah WalkerI. Walker#1
EJ BellingerEJ Bellinger#5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
15	5	2-4	0-1	1-2	4	2	0	0	0	3	1	1
33	8	3-8	1-6	1-2	10	2	1	2	0	0	10	2
30	7	3-9	1-3	0-0	2	0	2	1	0	0	2	2
28	2	1-5	0-1	0-0	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	2
35	19	7-13	2-6	3-3	6	1	6	2	0	1	5	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
18	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	2	4	1	0	1	0	2	1
9	1	0-2	0-0	1-2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
4	3	1-2	0-1	1-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	0	0-5	0-3	0-0	2	0	1	1	2	0	2	2
7	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	45	17-52	4-22	7-11	33	11	15	7	3	7	26	13
		33%	18%	64%

Southern Illinois Salukis

starters
Clarence RupertC. Rupert#4
Marcus DomaskM. Domask#1
Trent BrownT. Brown#24
Xavier JohnsonX. Johnson#10
Lance JonesL. Jones#5
bench
Troy D'AmicoT. D'Amico#23
J.D. MuilaJ.D. Muila#11
Foster WondersF. Wonders#0
Dalton BanksD. Banks#3
Jawaun NewtonJ. Newton#13
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
18	9	4-6	0-0	1-3	5	0	0	0	3	0	5	0
35	14	5-11	0-2	4-5	4	5	4	2	0	0	4	1
13	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
28	9	4-9	1-4	0-0	4	3	1	1	0	1	3	1
37	16	6-14	2-8	2-2	2	3	1	3	0	0	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	0
21	4	2-5	0-0	0-0	9	0	1	1	0	2	7	1
6	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
15	5	2-4	1-2	0-0	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	3
13	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1
	63	26-56	4-19	7-10	36	12	11	9	4	7	29	10
		46%	21%	70%

Game Information

Carbondale, IL

Referee:Jeb Hartness

Referee:Amy Bonner

Referee:Ray Natali

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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