Illinois Fighting Illini @ Rutgers Scarlet Knights

15-8, 7-6 Big Ten

Final

	1	2	T
Illinois ILL	29	44	73
Rutgers RUTG	37	45	82

Rutgers Scarlet KnightsRutgersRUTG

12-11, 5-7 Big Ten

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
Morez Johnson Jr.M. Johnson Jr.#21
Tomislav IvisicT. Ivisic#13
Kasparas JakucionisK. Jakucionis#32
Dra Gibbs-LawhornD. Gibbs-Lawhorn#2
Kylan BoswellK. Boswell#4
bench
Ben HumrichousB. Humrichous#3
Jake DavisJ. Davis#15
Will RileyW. Riley#7
Carey BoothC. Booth#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	11	3-3	0-0	5-6	5	1	1	0	0	3	2	4
19	9	4-9	1-5	0-1	7	2	1	1	3	2	5	2
27	7	2-8	0-2	3-5	2	2	3	1	0	0	2	4
21	6	3-8	0-4	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	3
38	6	3-8	0-3	0-0	10	1	1	4	0	3	7	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
29	14	5-11	3-8	1-2	5	1	1	0	0	3	2	2
10	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	2
34	18	6-16	2-5	4-5	3	6	4	0	0	1	2	0
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	73	27-65	6-28	13-19	41	13	13	6	3	18	23	22
		42%	21%	68%

Rutgers Scarlet Knights

starters
Dylan GrantD. Grant#9
Lathan SommervilleL. Sommerville#24
Dylan HarperD. Harper#2
Ace BaileyA. Bailey#4
Jeremiah WilliamsJ. Williams#25
bench
Bryce DortchB. Dortch#8
Zach MartiniZ. Martini#99
P.J. HayesPJ Hayes IV#23
Jamichael DavisJ. Davis#1
Jordan DerkackJ. Derkack#0
Tyson AcuffT. Acuff#5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
18	5	2-10	1-6	0-0	7	0	0	1	1	5	2	0
18	7	2-5	0-0	3-4	4	1	1	0	0	2	2	5
34	28	7-15	3-5	11-12	6	5	3	4	1	0	6	1
36	18	7-13	0-0	4-4	11	2	2	0	3	5	6	2
25	13	3-7	0-2	7-8	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	4
18	4	1-2	1-2	1-2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
27	4	1-4	0-0	2-4	4	2	0	1	0	0	4	0
5	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	82	24-59	6-16	28-34	40	12	9	8	5	16	24	16
		41%	38%	82%

Ace Bailey blocks shot, then scores on the other end

0:21

Dylan Harper's 28 points lead Rutgers to upset win

1:59

Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights: Game Highlights

1:58

Game Information

Piscataway, NJ

Referee:Larry Scirotto

Referee:Jeffrey Anderson

Referee:Owen Shortt

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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