ISU
at
Southwest Missouri State
February 2nd


1st 2nd TOTAL
Illinois State 36 27 63
Southwest Missouri St. 23 45 68
The Birds jumped out to an early 9-2 lead on 4 points by Gregg Alexander, and 5 by Shawn Jeppson. SMS climbed back within 2, 11-9, before an Alexander basket stopped the run. By the 7:50 mark ISU held a 19-11 lead on a 3 pointer by Vince Greene. The Birds pushed the lead to 14 on back to back baskets by Boo Bojang and a 3 pointer by Jeppson to make the score 29-15. SMS cut the deficit to 11 before entering the half down 13, 36-23.

The Birds held onto their double digit lead until just under 15 minutes to go as SMS cut the lead down to 9, 47-38. They got as close as 7 before ISU increased their lead to 11, 51-40.  ISU held a 56-46 lead with 9 minutes left in the game when SMS once again chipped into the lead. The cut the deficit to 5, 60-55 with 3:42 remaining and finally took their first lead of the game, 63-65 with 53.4 seconds left in the game.  The Birds didn't score the rest of the way, and were held without a field goal over the final 7:30, and lost 68-63.



Illinois St
PLAYER MIN FGM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST PF PTS
G. Alexander 36 4-8 0-0 2 4 3 0 10
B. Bojang 31 5-12 3-4 2 9 1 0 13
A. Strandmark 21 4-6 0-0 2 6 0 2 8
R. Rice 29 0-4 4-4 0 3 4 4 4
S. Jeppson 32 4-9 0-1 0 4 3 3 10
V. Greene 11 2-5 0-1 0 1 1 2 6
C. Mazanowski 4 2-2 0-0 0 1 0 1 4
S. Ford 23 2-8 2-4 3 4 2 4 6
C. Reid 13 1-3 0-0 1 2 0 1 2
Totals 200 24-57 9-14 10 34 14 17 63
  .421 .643  
TEAM REBS: 3
TURNOVERS: 11 (Greene 3, Jeppson 2, Rice 2, Alexander, Bojang, Ford, Strandmark)
BLOCKED SHOTS: 4 (Strandmark 2, Jeppson, Greene)
STEALS: 4 (Alexander 2, Rice, Strandmark)
3-PT FGS: 6-10, .600 (Alexander 2-2, Jeppson 2-3, Greene 2-5)

SMS
PLAYER MIN FGM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST PF PTS
S. Brakebill 33 7-11 6-7 2 6 2 2 20
D. Novak 32 2-7 0-0 2 8 1 1 5
M. Wallace 30 8-13 1-1 4 9 0 2 17
T. McGee 37 5-20 5-6 0 3 6 1 16
T. Fisher 21 0-2 0-2 3 5 2 2 0
D. Williams 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
J. Gilbert 15 3-5 0-0 0 1 0 1 8
T. Maclin 7 0-0 0-1 1 2 0 0 0
M. Randle 10 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 2 0
T. Walk 12 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 2 2
Totals 200 26-60 12-17 12 36 11 14 68
  .433 .760  
TEAM REBS: None
TURNOVERS: 7 (Novak 3, M Wallace 2, Gilbert, Mcgee)
BLOCKED SHOTS: 6 (Brakebill 5, Randle)
STEALS: 5 (Mcgee 2, M Wallace, Maclin, Randle)
3-PT FGS: 4-14, .286 (Brakebill 0-1, Novak 1-4, Mcgee 1-4, Fisher 0-1, Gilbert 2-4)


Technicals: None
Attendance: 6,210 

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