Illinois Fighting Illini vs Chattanooga Mocs

Men's Basketball Championship - South Region - 1st Round

27-8

Final

	1	2	T
Chattanooga UTC	33	20	53
Illinois ILL	29	25	54

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

23-9

Chattanooga Mocs

starters
KC HanktonKC Hankton#1
Silvio De SousaS. De Sousa#22
Darius BanksD. Banks#5
Malachi SmithM. Smith#13
David Jean-BaptisteD. Jean-Baptiste#3
bench
Josh AyeniJ. Ayeni#21
Avery DiggsA. Diggs#23
Grant LedfordG. Ledford#35
A.J. CaldwellA.J. Caldwell#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	6	2-4	2-4	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	3
18	8	4-7	0-0	0-2	4	3	1	0	0	2	2	4
38	8	3-9	0-0	2-4	13	1	1	2	0	4	9	3
34	12	4-20	0-3	4-6	8	1	2	3	0	3	5	1
33	4	2-11	0-4	0-0	3	1	2	2	0	1	2	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
5	5	2-3	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
13	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	3	0	1	1	0	2	1	2
19	5	2-7	1-3	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	1
18	1	0-1	0-0	1-2	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	2
	53	21-65	4-15	7-14	43	6	10	8	0	16	27	21
		32%	27%	50%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Kofi CockburnK. Cockburn#21
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Alfonso PlummerA. Plummer#11
Da'Monte WilliamsD. Williams#20
Trent FrazierT. Frazier#1
bench
Benjamin Bosmans-VerdonkB. Bosmans-Verdonk#13
Omar PayneO. Payne#4
Andre CurbeloA. Curbelo#5
Jacob GrandisonJ. Grandison#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
35	17	6-12	0-0	5-10	13	1	4	1	3	5	8	4
32	10	5-8	0-1	0-1	8	2	0	0	1	2	6	3
29	15	5-12	3-8	2-2	2	0	3	0	0	0	2	2
28	2	1-3	0-2	0-0	6	0	0	1	0	0	6	1
32	2	0-6	0-5	2-2	3	4	1	2	0	1	2	2
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	0
4	3	1-1	0-0	1-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
30	5	1-7	0-1	3-4	3	4	6	1	0	0	3	2
9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	3	2	0	0	0	1	2	1
	54	19-49	3-17	13-22	41	13	14	5	4	9	32	16
		39%	18%	59%

Game Information

Pittsburgh, PA

Referee:Don Daily

Referee:Tony Chiazza

Referee:Tommy Nunez

NCAA Division I

Southern Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
East Tennessee State	13-5	-	23-11
Mercer	11-7	2	19-13
Wofford	11-7	2	19-13
Samford	11-7	2	18-14
Furman	10-8	3	22-13
Western Carolina	10-8	3	15-16
UNC Greensboro	9-9	4	15-19
Chattanooga	7-11	6	13-19
The Citadel	7-11	6	11-22
VMI	1-17	12	6-26

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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