CHICAGO – Illinois State out-scored the UIC Flames by 12 in the second half, but a 16-point halftime deficit proved too much to overcome in a 55-51 UIC win on Wednesday evening.
Darius Burford scored a team-high 10 points, while Malachi Poindexter scored nine, Seneca Knight 8, and Harouna Sissoko a season-high seven points. Sissoko pulled down a season- and game-high eight rebounds, as the Redbirds out-rebounded UIC 41-to-31, the sixth consecutive game that ISU has out-rebounded its opponents, tied for the fifth-longest such rebounding streak since 2000-01.