Live Blog: Final — Northwestern 74, Indiana basketball 61

Indiana
G – Conor Enright
G – Lamar Wilkerson
F – Tucker DeVries
F – Reed Bailey
F – Sam Alexis

Northwestern
G – Jake West
G – Jayden Reid
G – Angelo Ciaravino
F – Tre Singleton
F – Nick Martinelli

Hoosiers win the tip and we’re off as Sam Alexis opens the scoring with a layup off a Wilkerson assist.

Northwestern answers as Tre Singleton goes right at Reed Bailey for two.

After a Tucker DeVries steal, Lamar Wilkerson gets the and one layup to go in transition.

Indiana is doubling Nick Martinelli early, forcing anyone else to beat them.

Tucker DeVries knocks down a tough off the dribble three and follows it up with a free throw line jumper.

After some great one on one defense from DeVries, he finds Wilkerson for a three to put IU up 7.

Jake West answers with a three of his own.

Another steal leads to a Hoosier bucket as Alexis converts the floater off a DeVries assist.

After a Wildcat bucket, Indiana answers with a Tayton Conerway layup off a nice feed from Wilkerson.

Martinelli gets his first bucket to go on a tough shot over Sam Alexis, but Alexis answers with a bucket on the next possession.

Lamar Wilkerson with a nice finish in transition puts the Hoosiers up 8.

After a Jake West bucket, Tucker DeVries finds Nick Dorn in the corner for a three.

Northwestern respond with a pair of buckets from Martinelli and West.

Hoosiers answer again as DeVries finds Conor Enright for a three. 5 assists for DeVries already.

Nick Martinelli converts a tough floater over Sam Alexis.

Lamar Wilkerson converts the put back layup after an Alexis miss.

A pair of Northwestern buckets cut the Hoosier lead to 5 and Darian DeVries calls timeout.

Northwestern is taking advantage of some sloppiness from Indiana.

Indiana turn it over again out of the break, as they couldn’t get a shot off before the clock expired.

After a stop on the other end, Conerway pushed in transition and got a layup for Indiana.

Jake West gets another bucket before the break for Northwestern. He has 11 already.

Northwestern takes their first lead of the game with a pair of threes by Jake West and Tyler Kropp.

Indiana retakes the lead off a Nick Dorn three off a nice skip pass from Alexis.

Once again Tayton Conerway gets to the rim and converts a tough shot and Northwestern calls timeout..

Out of the timeout Reid finds Ciaravino for an alley oop finish.

After another Indiana turnover, Nick Martinelli draws a foul and goes 1-2 at the line.

Wildcats take the lead after two offensive rebounds on their opening possession.

Another Indiana turnover leads to a Jake West layup.

Darian DeVries wasted no time after the turnover pulling Enright for Tayton Conerway.

Nick Martinelli knocks down a three and he now has 14 points.

Wilkerson answers with a bucket from the elbow, but Martinelli responds with another bucket.

Indiana is struggling to get stops right now.

Lamar Wilkerson gets to the rim for a layup to cut the deficit to 2.

Wilkerson has 14 and is the only Hoosier with more than 6 points at the moment.

He’ll shoot two free throws after the break.

Wilkerson goes 1-2 at the line for Indiana.

Tucker DeVries picks up his first foul as both teams intensity has increased.

Martinelli knocks down a jumper off a baseline out of bounds play.

Another Indiana turnover leads to a hard foul on Nick Dorn. The officials reviewed it and upgraded it to a flagrant one.

This one is starting to get away from Indiana as the offense has gone cold.

A Martinelli and one puts the Wildcats up 9.

Tayton Conerway draws a foul out of the break and goes 2-2 at the line. Martinelli picks up his 2nd foul.

Northwestern calls a timeout after not being able to inbound the ball.

Another Indiana turnover leads to a Northwestern bucket on the other end.

Jayden Reid knocks down a three and Indiana calls timeout.

Lamar Wilkerson gets one to fall at the elbow out of the timeout.

Reed Bailey picks up his 2nd foul and Singleton knocks down both free throws.

Tre Singleton draws another foul, this time on DeVries (2nd) and makes both free throws.

Northwestern knocks down a three, but Tayton Conerway answers to keep the deficit at 15.

Nick Martinelli gets another bucket and he now has 26 points.

Nick Dorn picks up his 4th foul of the game.

Hoosiers have gone over four minutes without a made field goal.

Reed Bailey draws a foul and goes 1-2 at the free throw line.

Conerway scores in transition to cut the deficit to 12.

Reed Bailey picks up his 3rd foul and Reid goes 1-2 at the line.