Illawarra Hawks vs Cairns Taipans, 2025–26 Round 15
2025–26 · Round 15 · Sat 3 January 2026
WIN Entertainment Centre
Hawks beat Taipans by 18
Illawarra Hawks beat Cairns Taipans 96–78 at WIN Entertainment Centre in Round 15 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Sat 3 January 2026.
Tyler Harvey led all scorers with 18 points for the Hawks on 7-of-13 shooting, including 4 threes; Sam Waardenburg had 17 for the Taipans.
Hawks won the rebounding battle 45–35, and Taipans turned it over 14 times to 5.
Hawks led by as many as 24.
Leaders
Team stats
- Field goals 23/6237%
- Threes 9/3030%
- Free throws 23/2688%
The game
- Rebounds 35
- Assists 14
- Turnovers 14
- Steals 3
- Bench points 18
- Biggest lead 7
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. Harvey | 18 | 5 | 3 | 28:50 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7-13 | 4-9 | 0-0 | +24 | |
| W. Swaka Lo Buluk | 10 | 1 | 0 | 22:41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 | +23 | |
| S. Froling | 16 | 6 | 4 | 21:08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7-10 | 0-0 | 2-4 | +20 | |
| J. McGee | 16 | 10 | 2 | 17:50 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7-12 | 0-1 | 2-2 | +10 | |
| B. Bayles | 0 | 5 | 0 | 17:38 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +7 | |
| Q. Peterson | 14 | 3 | 3 | 22:53 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5-10 | 3-7 | 1-1 | -1 | |
| W. Hickey | 4 | 5 | 6 | 22:38 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +16 | |
| D. Grida | 11 | 2 | 1 | 15:35 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 3-5 | +21 | |
| M. Peatling | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15:20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 1-2 | -4 | |
| T. Blanchfield | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6:14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 1-2 | -8 | |
| L. Yates | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3:08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -6 |
| J. Narkle | – | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3:08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -6 |
| J. Ball | – | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3:08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 1-2 | -6 |
| Team | 96 | 45 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 38-78 | 9-29 | 11-18 | |||
| Shooting | 48.7% | 31.0% | 61.1% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. McVeigh | 16 | 1 | 1 | 33:30 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5-11 | 1-4 | 5-6 | -17 | |
| A. Andrews | 7 | 3 | 6 | 31:32 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3-9 | 0-4 | 1-2 | -20 | |
| S. Waardenburg | 17 | 3 | 1 | 28:27 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4-8 | 2-4 | 7-7 | -20 | |
| M. King | 11 | 5 | 1 | 26:23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5-9 | 1-4 | 0-1 | -31 | |
| K. Galloway | 9 | 9 | 0 | 18:14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | -5 | |
| A. Schofield | 10 | 3 | 2 | 19:39 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2-5 | 2-5 | 4-4 | +1 | |
| K. Adnam | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14:50 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | |
| M. Lee | 0 | 5 | 2 | 13:42 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -10 | |
| K. Stattmann | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8:26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 6-6 | +8 | |
| L. McVeigh | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5:20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +4 | |
| Team | 78 | 35 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 23-62 | 9-30 | 23-26 | |||
| Shooting | 37.1% | 30.0% | 88.5% |
Tap a column heading to sort. RTG is the FanCrew rating.
How the FanCrew rating works
FanCrew rating: the whole box-score line (scoring and shooting, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers and fouls) plus the margin while on court, on a 0–10 scale against every NBL game since 2005–06. 6.5 is a typical game, 8.5 and up a standout. Players need five minutes to be rated.