Syracuse Orange @ Illinois Fighting Illini

ACC/Big Ten Challenge presented by Continental Tire

3-4, 0-1 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Syracuse SYR	23	21	44
Illinois ILL	30	43	73

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

6-1, 5-0 Home

Syracuse Orange

starters
Chris BellC. Bell#0
Benny WilliamsB. Williams#13
Jesse EdwardsJ. Edwards#14
Judah MintzJ. Mintz#3
Joseph Girard IIIJ. Girard III#11
bench
Mounir HimaM. Hima#55
Maliq BrownM. Brown#1
John Bol AjakJ. Ajak#2
Justin TaylorJ. Taylor#5
Quadir CopelandQ. Copeland#24
Symir TorrenceS. Torrence#10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	8	3-9	2-8	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	3
30	8	2-6	1-2	3-4	5	0	1	0	0	3	2	6
33	9	3-9	0-0	3-6	17	3	4	2	3	4	13	5
34	9	3-16	0-2	3-6	2	5	4	0	0	1	1	4
20	0	0-3	0-1	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
4	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	2
4	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
9	0	0-1	0-0	0-1	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
23	6	2-7	2-4	0-0	5	1	1	0	0	0	5	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
13	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	2
	44	15-54	5-17	9-17	42	11	17	3	5	12	30	22
		28%	29%	53%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Matthew MayerM. Mayer#24
RJ MelendezR. Melendez#15
Coleman HawkinsC. Hawkins#33
Skyy ClarkS. Clark#55
Terrence Shannon Jr.T. Shannon Jr. #0
bench
Brandon LiebB. Lieb#12
Connor ServenC. Serven#2
Dain DainjaD. Dainja#42
Ty RodgersT. Rodgers#20
Paxton WardenP. Warden#22
Jayden EppsJ. Epps#3
Sencire HarrisS. Harris#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	5	2-6	0-3	1-2	8	2	1	2	0	3	5	1
21	15	3-7	2-5	7-8	6	1	0	2	1	2	4	2
29	15	7-11	1-2	0-2	10	10	2	1	0	1	9	1
30	2	0-10	0-7	2-4	5	3	0	2	0	0	5	3
33	17	5-17	5-15	2-2	7	2	2	0	2	5	2	1
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	2	0	0	0
2	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
17	3	1-4	0-0	1-2	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	3
15	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	11	4-7	3-6	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
4	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	73	24-67	11-39	14-22	46	21	7	7	6	17	29	15
		36%	28%	64%

Illinois crowd goes wild after Coleman Hawkins secures triple-double

2:13

Coleman Hawkins hits the triple vs. Syracuse Orange

0:19

Terrence Shannon Jr. drills triple in from Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Syracuse Orange

0:18

Game Information

Champaign, IL

Referee:Larry Scirotto

Referee:Terry Oglesby

Referee:Paul Szelc

NCAA Division I

Atlantic Coast Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Duke	17-1	-	35-3
Virginia	15-3	2	30-6
Miami	13-5	4	26-9
North Carolina	12-6	5	24-9
Clemson	12-6	5	24-11
Louisville	11-7	6	24-11
NC State	10-8	7	20-14
Florida State	10-8	7	18-15
California	9-9	8	22-12
Stanford	9-9	8	20-13
Virginia Tech	8-10	9	19-13
SMU	8-10	9	20-14
Wake Forest	7-11	10	18-17
Syracuse	6-12	11	15-17
Pittsburgh	5-13	12	13-20
Notre Dame	4-14	13	13-18
Boston College	4-14	13	11-20
Georgia Tech	2-16	15	11-20

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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