Evansville Purple Aces @ Missouri State Bears

6-1, 0-1 MVC

Final

	1	2	T
Evansville EVAN	30	48	78
Missouri St MOST	44	46	90

Missouri State BearsMissouri StMOST

6-1, 1-0 MVC

Evansville Purple Aces

starters
Ben HumrichousB. Humrichous#13
Yacine ToumiY. Toumi#10
Cam HaffnerC. Haffner#3
Antonio ThomasA. Thomas#2
Kenny Strawbridge Jr.K. Strawbridge Jr.#20
bench
Joshua HughesJ. Hughes#11
Sekou KalleS. Kalle#22
Chuck Bailey IIIC. Bailey III#4
Tanner CuffT. Cuff#1
Gage BobeG. Bobe#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
35	14	4-11	2-5	4-5	3	1	1	2	1	1	2	3
19	4	2-3	0-1	0-0	8	2	4	0	2	2	6	2
8	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
14	2	1-5	0-2	0-0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0
28	10	4-9	1-4	1-4	2	3	3	3	0	0	2	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	2	1-4	0-1	0-0	5	0	0	0	0	1	4	0
4	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
24	27	10-17	2-6	5-5	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	4
28	7	3-7	1-2	0-0	7	8	1	4	0	3	4	3
18	9	3-8	3-7	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	78	29-68	10-30	10-14	32	16	13	9	3	9	23	20
		43%	33%	71%

Missouri State Bears

starters
NJ BensonN.J. Benson#35
Donovan ClayD. Clay#5
Raphe AyresR. Ayres#11
Matthew LeeM. Lee#15
Chance MooreC. Moore#0
bench
Dawson CarperD. Carper#33
Cesare EdwardsC. Edwards#4
Tommy PinegarT. Pinegar #20
Kanon GipsonK. Gipson#23
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
31	16	7-12	0-0	2-4	13	0	3	0	2	7	6	2
37	19	6-12	1-4	6-7	5	2	1	2	1	1	4	3
24	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	3	3	1	2	0	1	2	3
40	20	4-14	2-7	10-14	4	8	5	3	0	0	4	2
39	28	8-14	5-8	7-7	8	2	3	1	3	2	6	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	7	3-5	1-2	0-0	7	0	1	1	0	0	7	2
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	90	28-59	9-23	25-32	42	15	15	9	6	11	31	14
		47%	39%	78%

N.J. Benson skies for big flush

0:21

Evansville Purple Aces vs. Missouri State Bears: Full Highlights

1:48

This flush from Cesare Edwards was too nice

0:18

Game Information

Springfield, MO

Referee:Gerry Pollard

Referee:Marques Pettigrew

Referee:Tyler Kumpf

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

Conference USA	CONF	GB	OVR
Liberty	17-3	-	26-8
Sam Houston	13-7	4	22-12
Louisiana Tech	11-9	6	20-14
Western Kentucky	11-9	6	18-14
Middle Tennessee	11-9	6	17-15
Kennesaw State	10-10	7	21-14
Jacksonville State	10-10	7	15-17
New Mexico State	8-12	9	16-16
Missouri State	8-12	9	16-18
Florida International	8-12	9	15-17
UTEP	7-13	10	11-20
Delaware	6-14	11	10-21

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