Northwestern Wildcats @ Illinois Fighting Illini

6-13, 3-12 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Northwestern NU	26	40	66
Illinois ILL	38	35	73

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

15-5, 11-3 Big Ten

Northwestern Wildcats

starters
Pete NanceP. Nance#22
Miller KoppM. Kopp#10
Ryan YoungR. Young#15
Chase AudigeC. Audige#1
Anthony GainesA. Gaines#11
bench
Robbie BeranR. Beran#31
Ty BerryT. Berry#3
Boo BuieB. Buie#0
Ryan GreerR. Greer#2
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
29	14	0	6	6	0	1	0	1	5-9	55.6	2-5	40.0	2-2	100.0	4
34	6	1	3	4	1	1	0	1	3-8	37.5	0-4	0.0	0-1	0.0	1
15	4	0	2	2	0	0	0	3	2-4	50.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	3
39	22	2	3	5	1	2	0	2	9-21	42.9	3-8	37.5	1-2	50.0	1
34	5	2	5	7	1	2	0	1	1-5	20.0	1-3	33.3	2-2	100.0	3
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
14	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	1	0-4	0.0	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	5
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0-1	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
15	9	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	4-9	44.4	0-2	0.0	1-1	100.0	5
16	6	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	3-3	100.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
	66	7	25	32	4	6	1	12	27-64	42.2	6-25	24.0	6-8	75.0	22

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Kofi CockburnK. Cockburn#21
Jacob GrandisonJ. Grandison#3
Adam MillerA. Miller#44
Ayo DosunmuA. Dosunmu#11
Trent FrazierT. Frazier#1
bench
Giorgi BezhanishviliG. Bezhanishvili#15
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Andre CurbeloA. Curbelo#5
Da'Monte WilliamsD. Williams#20
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
23	17	6	4	10	0	0	0	2	7-11	63.6	0-0	0.0	3-6	50.0	2
12	5	0	3	3	2	0	0	1	2-3	66.7	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	1
31	10	0	3	3	0	2	0	2	3-11	27.3	3-9	33.3	1-2	50.0	4
38	13	0	2	2	5	1	0	5	5-9	55.6	2-2	100.0	1-2	50.0	1
31	9	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	2-5	40.0	2-5	40.0	3-4	75.0	4
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
16	10	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	5-7	71.4	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	2
6	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	2-2	100.0	0
18	2	1	6	7	2	0	0	2	1-3	33.3	0-2	0.0	0-3	0.0	1
25	5	0	3	3	5	2	1	1	2-3	66.7	0-1	0.0	1-3	33.3	1
	73	8	26	34	16	5	2	15	27-52	51.9	8-21	38.1	11-22	50.0	16

State Farm Center

9:00 PM, February 16, 2021Coverage: BTN

Champaign, IL

Attendance: 162

Referees:
Donnie Eppley
Bo Boroski
Lewis Garrison

Team	CONF	GB	OVR
Illinois	0-0	-	1-0
Iowa	0-0	-	1-0
Maryland	0-0	-	1-0
Michigan	0-0	-	1-0
Michigan State	0-0	-	1-0
Minnesota	0-0	-	1-0
Nebraska	0-0	-	1-0
Northwestern	0-0	-	1-0
Ohio State	0-0	-	1-0
Oregon	0-0	-	1-0
Penn State	0-0	-	1-0
Purdue	0-0	-	1-0
Rutgers	0-0	-	1-0
UCLA	0-0	-	1-0
USC	0-0	-	1-0
Washington	0-0	-	1-0
Wisconsin	0-0	-	1-0
Indiana	0-0	-	0-0

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