Ball State Cardinals @ Ohio Bobcats

8-8, 2-2 MAC

Final

	1	2	T
Ball State BALL	35	36	71
Ohio OHIO	45	41	86

Ohio BobcatsOhioOHIO

10-6, 4-0 MAC

Ball State Cardinals

starters
Mickey Pearson Jr.M. Pearson Jr.#3
Payton SparksP. Sparks#5
Fatt HillJ. Hill#1
Juanse GorositoJ. Gorosito#4
Jeremiah HernandezJ. Hernandez#33
bench
Mason JonesM. Jones#24
Ben HendriksB. Hendriks#34
Joey HartJ. Hart#20
Ethan Brittain-WattsE. Brittain-Watts#2
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
33	19	4	2	6	3	0	0	4	6-13	46.2	3-6	50.0	4-4	100.0	1
27	8	5	7	12	3	0	1	2	4-8	50.0	0-0	0.0	0-2	0.0	1
33	14	0	5	5	3	1	1	3	3-11	27.3	2-2	100.0	6-10	60.0	0
24	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	3-7	42.9	2-4	50.0	0-0	0.0	2
26	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	3-5	60.0	1-2	50.0	1-1	100.0	2
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
8	7	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3-4	75.0	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	1
13	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	2-2	100.0	1
19	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2-5	40.0	1-4	25.0	0-0	0.0	3
17	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	2	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	5
	71	12	22	34	12	1	2	15	24-56	42.9	10-20	50.0	13-19	68.4	16

Ohio Bobcats

starters
Aidan HadawayA. Hadaway#10
AJ ClaytonAJ Clayton#23
AJ BrownAJ Brown#3
Elmore James IVE. James#1
Jackson PaveletzkeJ. Paveletzke#13
bench
Vic SearlsV. Searls#35
Ayden EvansA. Evans#5
Elijah ElliottE. Elliott#6
Ajay SheldonA. Sheldon#0
Shereef MitchellS. Mitchell#4
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
29	15	2	3	5	2	1	1	0	5-9	55.6	3-5	60.0	2-2	100.0	4
30	7	2	2	4	1	1	2	0	3-6	50.0	0-2	0.0	1-2	50.0	2
18	12	0	2	2	1	2	0	0	5-6	83.3	2-2	100.0	0-0	0.0	2
24	6	0	3	3	1	0	0	1	2-5	40.0	1-1	100.0	1-2	50.0	1
32	15	1	4	5	6	1	0	2	6-13	46.2	0-4	0.0	3-3	100.0	3
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
18	9	1	3	4	0	1	2	0	4-7	57.1	0-2	0.0	1-4	25.0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
8	2	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
14	8	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3-7	42.9	2-6	33.3	0-0	0.0	2
25	12	0	2	2	3	4	0	0	5-7	71.4	0-0	0.0	2-3	66.7	3
	86	8	21	29	15	11	5	5	34-62	54.8	8-22	36.4	10-16	62.5	17

Ajay Sheldon buries the 3 for Ohio

0:19

Convocation Center (OH)

7:00 PM, January 14, 2025Coverage: ESPN+

Athens, OH

Attendance: 4,624

Referees:
Josh White
Tim Stewart
Blanca Burns

Team	CONF	GB	OVR
Akron	0-0	-	0-0
Ball State	0-0	-	0-0
Bowling Green	0-0	-	0-0
Buffalo	0-0	-	0-0
Central Michigan	0-0	-	0-0
Eastern Michigan	0-0	-	0-0
Kent State	0-0	-	0-0
Massachusetts	0-0	-	0-0
Miami (OH)	0-0	-	0-0
Northern Illinois	0-0	-	0-0
Ohio	0-0	-	0-0
Toledo	0-0	-	0-0
Western Michigan	0-0	-	0-0

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