Michigan Wolverines @ Illinois Fighting Illini

17-13, 11-8 Big Ten

Final/2OT

	1	2	OT	T
Michigan MICH	31	39	17	87
Illinois ILL	33	37	21	91

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

20-10, 11-8 Big Ten

Michigan Wolverines

starters
Will TschetterW. Tschetter#42
Hunter DickinsonH. Dickinson#1
Jett HowardJe. Howard#13
Dug McDanielD. McDaniel#0
Kobe BufkinK. Bufkin#2
bench
Terrance Williams IIT. Williams II#5
Tarris Reed Jr.T. Reed Jr.#32
Jace HowardJa. Howard#25
Joey BakerJ. Baker#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	4
46	31	14-21	1-1	2-5	16	3	5	0	3	3	13	3
44	15	5-12	3-8	2-2	5	1	1	0	1	0	5	5
47	9	3-10	1-4	2-3	2	4	1	0	0	0	2	2
43	23	7-15	3-4	6-8	6	0	1	1	1	0	6	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
20	6	2-5	0-0	2-2	5	0	1	0	1	3	2	2
26	3	0-2	0-0	3-4	6	0	1	0	1	2	4	5
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
10	0	0-5	0-4	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
	87	31-70	8-21	17-24	46	8	12	1	7	9	37	25
		44%	38%	71%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Dain DainjaD. Dainja#42
Matthew MayerM. Mayer#24
RJ MelendezR. Melendez#15
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Terrence Shannon Jr.T. Shannon Jr. #0
bench
Brandon LiebB. Lieb#12
Luke GoodeL. Goode#10
Ty RodgersT. Rodgers#20
Sencire HarrisS. Harris#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
17	8	4-7	0-0	0-0	4	0	2	2	1	1	3	3
39	24	8-20	4-11	4-7	7	0	0	1	1	0	7	2
32	12	3-6	1-1	5-5	4	2	0	0	0	2	2	3
49	6	3-9	0-0	0-1	7	2	1	2	0	1	6	4
44	21	4-14	0-5	13-16	7	4	2	1	1	2	5	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	4	1-2	0-1	2-2	4	0	0	1	0	1	3	0
33	14	6-9	0-0	2-3	7	1	2	1	1	5	2	2
22	2	1-5	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	1	0	0	3	3
	91	30-72	5-18	26-34	45	9	7	9	4	12	33	19
		42%	28%	76%

Terrence Shannon Jr. somehow gets this and-1 to fall in OT

0:19

Terrence Shannon Jr. ties it up late with clutch and-1

0:21

Kobe Bufkin splashes a tough and-1 jumper

0:22

Game Information

Champaign, IL

Referee:Larry Scirotto

Referee:D.J. Carstensen

Referee:Roger Ayers

NCAA Division I

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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Eichorst returning to home state as new AD at Wisconsin

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