Houston Cougars vs Illinois Fighting Illini

NCAA Men's Basketball Championship - South Region - Sweet 16

27-8

Final

	1	2	T
Illinois ILL	24	41	65
Houston HOU	22	33	55

Houston CougarsHoustonHOU

30-7

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
David MirkovicD. Mirkovic#0
Jake DavisJ. Davis#15
Tomislav IvisicT. Ivisic#13
Keaton WaglerK. Wagler#23
Kylan BoswellK. Boswell#4
bench
Ben HumrichousB. Humrichous#3
Zvonimir IvisicZ. Ivisic#44
Andrej StojakovicA. Stojakovic#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
34	14	6-13	2-6	0-2	10	2	3	0	1	1	9	2
13	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	3	1	2
29	9	3-5	1-3	2-2	3	3	1	0	0	2	1	1
38	13	4-14	3-6	2-5	12	3	1	1	2	3	9	1
30	6	0-5	0-1	6-10	4	2	1	0	0	0	4	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
16	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
12	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	0
28	13	5-8	1-3	2-2	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	3
	65	22-51	9-23	12-21	43	13	9	2	3	12	31	14
		43%	39%	57%

Houston Cougars

starters
Chris Cenac Jr.C. Cenac Jr.#5
Joseph TuglerJ. Tugler#11
Kingston FlemingsK. Flemings#4
Milos UzanM. Uzan#7
Emanuel SharpE. Sharp#21
bench
Kalifa SakhoK. Sakho#14
Chase McCartyC. McCarty#24
Mercy MillerM. Miller#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	6	3-12	0-3	0-0	10	1	0	1	1	3	7	2
25	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	4	5	2	0	1	2	2	4
37	11	4-10	1-3	2-2	6	4	0	0	0	1	5	4
37	6	2-11	2-6	0-0	2	5	0	1	0	0	2	2
39	17	7-16	3-10	0-0	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
20	9	3-7	3-7	0-0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	2
7	0	0-4	0-3	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	55	22-64	9-32	2-2	34	17	5	4	2	11	23	21
		34%	28%	100%

Ben Humrichous' 3 caps 17-0 run for Illinois

0:18

David Mirkovic gets the block for Illinois

0:16

Keaton Wagler hits a second-chance bucket for Illinois

0:17

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:Paul Szelc

Referee:Marques Pettigrew

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

Big 12 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Arizona	16-2	-	36-3
Houston	14-4	2	30-7
Iowa State	12-6	4	29-8
Kansas	12-6	4	24-11
Texas Tech	12-6	4	23-11
TCU	11-7	5	23-12
BYU	9-9	7	23-12
UCF	9-9	7	21-12
West Virginia	9-9	7	21-14
Cincinnati	9-9	7	18-15
Colorado	7-11	9	17-16
Arizona State	7-11	9	17-16
Oklahoma State	6-12	10	20-15
Baylor	6-12	10	17-17
Kansas State	3-15	13	12-20
Utah	2-16	14	10-22

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