ST. LOUIS – Entering Arch Madness as the #10 seed, the University of Evansville men's basketball team gave #7 Illinois State everything it had, but the Redbirds were able to hang on for a 65-60 win at the Enterprise Center on Thursday night.
"I thought we played a very hard-fought game. We played about as good as we could have; we had opportunities to win this game," Aces head coach Walter McCarty said after the game. "I thought our game plan was very good and our guys did a nice job of following it. We had a few unlucky bounces that Illinois State was able to take advantage of.