CHICAGO (AP) - Josh Crittle scored 20 points, Daniel Barnes added 16 and Illinois-Chicago beat Cleveland State 82-59 on Tuesday night in the first round of the Horizon League tournament.
Gary Talton added 11 points for the fifth-seeded Flames (17-14), and Hayden Humes and Marc Brown chipped in 10 apiece. Illinois-Chicago shot 49 percent from the floor and was 8 of 17 from 3-point range.
Charlie Lee led the eighth-seeded Vikings (14-18) with 17 points, and Bryn Forbes had 16. Cleveland State shot 32 percent and was outrebounded 45-32.
The Flames opened the game on a 30-6 run, capped by an Ahman Fells tip-in with 7:10 left in the first half, and the Vikings never got within single digits again.
Illinois-Chicago moved on to face No. 4 seed Green Bay, which beat Milwaukee 62-46, on Friday in Valparaiso, Ind. The game will be the Flames' first in the quarterfinals since the 2008-09 season.
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| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Cleveland State (14-18) | 30 | 29 | 59 |
| Illinois-Chicago (17-14) « | 44 | 38 | 82 |
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| Cleveland State Vikings | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Kamczyc, F | 29 | 2-5 | 1-2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| D. Long, C | 23 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| C. Lee, G | 35 | 5-16 | 2-2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| B. Forbes, G | 34 | 5-16 | 6-8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| S. Douglas, G | 28 | 4-5 | 1-2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Mason | 22 | 1-8 | 2-2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| J. Lomomba | 15 | 0-4 | 1-2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| J. Ivory | 7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Scales | 6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| R. Veira | 1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 19-60 | 14-20 | 32 | 8 | 25 | 59 | |
| 31.7% | 70% | ||||||
| Illinois-Chicago Flames | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| H. Humes, F | 23 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| A. Kelley, F | 19 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| J. Crittle, C | 24 | 5-7 | 10-12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 20 |
| G. Talton, G | 35 | 4-5 | 2-2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| D. Barnes, G | 34 | 6-11 | 0-0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 16 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Brown | 19 | 2-4 | 5-6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| W. Simonton | 12 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| A. Fells | 10 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| J. Miller | 10 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| J. Wiegand | 8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| J. Parker | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G. Snider | 1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 27-55 | 20-26 | 45 | 20 | 18 | 82 | |
| 49.1% | 76.9% | ||||||
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