GAMEDAY Mens Basketball
Creighton 83, Marquette 82
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. - Ryan Kalkbrenner scored 21 points and Ryan Hawkins made a layup with 1:55 left to give Creighton the lead en route to an 83-82 win over Marquette.
Hawkins' layup capped a 7-1 run for the Bluejays. Neither team scored again until the final eight seconds.
Creighton's Ryan Nembhard missed a 3-pointer with 17 seconds to go. Creighton momentarily had the offensive rebound but wound up giving the ball away. The Bluejays' Rati Andronikashvili got the ball back with a steal with eight seconds to go and the Blue Jays finished it off with 3 of 4 free throws.
Marquette's Kam Jones made a 3-pointer at the buzzer for the final margin.
Nembhard had 18 points for Creighton (18-8, 10-5 Big East Conference), which earned its fifth consecutive win. Hawkins added 17 points and nine rebounds. Trey Alexander had 13 points and eight rebounds.
Darryl Morsell had 23 points for the Golden Eagles (17-10, 9-7). Kam Jones added 18 points. Justin Lewis had 11 points and seven rebounds.
| Marquette | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| J. Lewis | F | 35 | 5-13 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 2-7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| K. Kuath | F | 24 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 5-7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| O. Prosper | F | 20 | 1-5 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| D. Morsell | G | 36 | 11-18 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 23 |
| T. Kolek | G | 15 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| G. Elliott | 26 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
| K. Jones | 25 | 7-11 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 18 | |
| O. Ighodaro | 16 | 1-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| S. Mitchell | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| D. Joplin | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Totals | 200 | 35-64 (.547) |
6-10 (.600) |
6-16 (.375) |
10-30 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 82 | |
| Creighton | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| R. Hawkins | F | 40 | 7-13 | 3-4 | 0-3 | 3-9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 17 |
| R. Kalkbrenner | C | 37 | 8-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 5-7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 21 |
| R. Nembhard | G | 39 | 6-11 | 2-3 | 4-6 | 0-3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
| T. Alexander | G | 37 | 4-9 | 4-4 | 1-2 | 0-8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| A. O'Connell | G | 35 | 5-13 | 0-2 | 3-9 | 0-1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| R. Andronikashvili | 9 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| K. Feazell | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| M. Kancleris | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 200 | 30-56 (.536) |
15-21 (.714) |
8-21 (.381) |
8-30 | 16 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 83 | |
