CARBONDALE, Ill. – Marty Hill scored a game-high 20 points and Dainius Chatkevicius added a career-high of 13 points, but five Southern Illinois players reached double digits with the Salukis hanging on for a 78-73 win over the University of Evansville men's basketball team on Saturday evening inside SIU Arena.
"I loved our fight tonight, we were ready to go. We never gave in and fought to the end. That is what I wanted to see," UE head coach Walter McCarty said. "We were against a really good basketball team tonight and we were able to run our actions; we are growing as a basketball team.