Kam Jones scored 20 factors and dished 10 assists to guide the No. 10 Marquette Golden Eagles to a 94-62 victory over the visiting Western Carolina Catamounts on Saturday afternoon in Milwaukee.
Jones added six rebounds for Marquette (8-0), which is off to its greatest begin since profitable 10 straight to start the 2011-12 marketing campaign, which ended with a Candy 16 look. Ben Gold added 12 factors, whereas Stevie Mitchell scored 10 and had three steals. David Joplin, Caedin Hamilton and Royce Parham every netted 9 factors for the Golden Eagles.
The Catamounts (2-4) had been led by Bernard Pelote’s 13 factors and eight boards. Jamar Livingston chipped in 10 factors and CJ Hyland bundled 5 factors with 5 rebounds and 6 assists.
Marquette managed many of the recreation, thanks largely to 51.4 p.c capturing and 21 takeaways.
The Golden Eagles constructed a 16-point lead within the first half earlier than Western Carolina clawed inside 37-28 with 3:55 left. Marquette responded with a 12-2 run to take a 49-30 benefit into the break, its largest lead of the sport to that time.
The sport rapidly obtained out of hand from there, with the Golden Eagles ultimately scoring 11 straight factors to push its result in 81-45 with 7:15 remaining.
Marquette completed with 26 factors off of Catamount turnovers and hit 14 of 40 pictures (35.0 p.c) from 3-point vary.
The win wasn’t all clean crusing for the Golden Eagles, who misplaced backup guard Zaide Lowery to an obvious left knee harm. Lowery was helped off the courtroom and into the locker room by his teammates with 1:36 left within the recreation.
Saturday’s recreation was a remaining tune-up for Marquette, which has three difficult video games arising in opposition to No. 5 Iowa State, No. 15 Wisconsin and Dayton earlier than Huge East Convention play begins Dec. 18.
–Discipline Degree Media