Western Kentucky Hilltoppers vs Illinois State Redbirds

Cayman Islands Classic

2-4

Final

	1	2	T
Illinois St ILST	35	31	66
Western KY WKU	38	40	78

Western Kentucky HilltoppersWestern KYWKU

4-1

Illinois State Redbirds

starters
Kendall LewisK. Lewis#22
Liam McChesneyL. McChesney#13
Darius BurfordD. Burford#10
Colton SandageC. Sandage#15
Seneca KnightS. Knight#3
bench
Alex KotovA. Kotov#25
Joe PetrakisJ. Petrakis#33
Jayden JohnsonJ. Johnson#24
Malachi PoindexterM. Poindexter#1
Luke KasubkeL. Kasubke#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	2	1-5	0-1	0-0	3	2	0	1	2	1	2	5
23	7	3-6	1-3	0-0	3	1	0	0	3	0	3	4
24	16	5-9	1-3	5-5	4	1	3	0	1	1	3	3
28	9	3-12	3-11	0-0	2	3	2	0	0	1	1	4
38	18	4-8	3-5	7-8	8	0	3	2	1	2	6	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
23	6	2-7	2-5	0-0	4	0	1	0	0	2	2	1
4	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
24	6	3-7	0-2	0-0	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	1
13	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	66	21-55	10-31	14-15	30	9	11	5	7	8	22	21
		38%	32%	93%

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

starters
Jamarion SharpJ. Sharp#33
Jairus HamiltonJ. Hamilton#3
Dayvion McKnightD. McKnight#20
Luke FramptonL. Frampton#14
Emmanuel AkotE. Akot#13
bench
Tyrone Marshall Jr.T. Marshall#24
Fallou DiagneF. Diagne#1
Khristian LanderK. Lander#4
Jordan RawlsJ. Rawls#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	2	0-3	0-0	2-2	4	0	0	0	3	0	4	2
25	7	2-6	1-3	2-3	5	3	2	0	0	1	4	2
29	9	3-5	0-0	3-5	5	5	6	0	0	2	3	3
33	14	5-8	4-7	0-0	3	3	0	1	0	0	3	4
30	14	3-6	3-3	5-8	4	1	1	1	2	0	4	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	0
14	14	5-6	2-3	2-3	4	0	1	0	0	3	1	4
15	4	1-4	0-1	2-2	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	2
17	12	6-10	0-0	0-0	2	3	1	1	0	1	1	0
	78	26-51	10-17	16-23	34	16	11	5	5	9	25	17
		51%	59%	70%

Game Information

George Town, Cayman Islands

Referee:Tony Chiazza

Referee:Pat Adams

Referee:Bobby Daw

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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