GAMEDAY Mens Basketball
Marquette 96, Saint John's 94
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
MILWAUKEE - Kam Jones scored 23 points and No. 6 Marquette barely avoided a last-minute collapse, topping St. John's 96-94 for its sixth consecutive victory.
St. John's erased nearly all of a 10-point deficit in the final 21 seconds of regulation and had a chance to tie the game before O'Mar Stanley missed the second of two free throws with 2.4 seconds remaining. Jones got the rebound and hit one of two free throws to complete the scoring in the regular-season finale for each school.
Marquette appeared to have the game in hand after Stevie Mitchell made two free throws to make it 93-83 with 29 seconds left. Marquette even inserted senior walk-on Michael Kennedy into the game.
But the Red Storm wouldn't go away.
David Jones hit a 3-pointer with 21 seconds left, then got a backcourt steal and sank another 3 to cut the lead to 93-89 with 18 seconds remaining. After a pair of Mitchell free throws, St. John's guard Dylan Addae-Wusu banked in a 3-pointer while getting fouled and hit the ensuing free throw to make 95-93 with 12 seconds left.
After Stanley made his first free throw, Marquette called a timeout. Stanley missed the next shot, and Marquette held on to the rebound and the game.
Marquette's Tyler Kolek had 18 points and 10 assists. Mitchell scored 14, Oso Ighodaro had 13 and Olivier-Maxence Prosper finished with 10.
Addae-Wusu scored a career-high 25 for St. John's, including a 3-pointer from about 60 feet away that beat the first-half buzzer. Posh Alexander had 18 and David Jones added 17.
Josh Soriano of St. John's had 14 points and 11 rebounds in his 23rd double-double of the season, tying Purdue's Zach Edey for the Division I lead.
TIP-INS
St. John's: The Red Storm did a nice job fighting back on the road after falling behind so early, but turnovers proved costly. St. John's shot 53.1% from the floor but committed 19 turnovers. St. John's entered the day ranked 10th out of 11 Big East teams in free-throw percentage, but the Red Storm made their first 16 attempts before missing the one that would have tied the game.
Marquette: It would have been natural to experience a letdown after clinching the Big East title outright, but Marquette instead played extremely well at the start of the game. The Golden Eagles haven't won an NCAA Tournament game since 2013, but this team is capable of making a deep postseason run.
March 4, 2023
| St. John's | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| O. Stanley | F | 33 | 6-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 6-8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
| J. Soriano | C | 33 | 5-8 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 4-11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 14 |
| P. Alexander | G | 38 | 6-12 | 3-3 | 3-6 | 0-2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| D. Addae-Wusu | G | 33 | 9-13 | 3-3 | 4-6 | 0-6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 25 |
| A. Storr | G | 15 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| D. Jones | 27 | 6-14 | 3-4 | 2-5 | 0-5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 | |
| K. King | 14 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| E. Nyiwe | 7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Totals | 200 | 34-64 (.531) |
16-18 (.889) |
10-20 (.500) |
11-39 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 94 | |
| Marquette | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| O. Ighodaro | F | 34 | 4-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| O. Prosper | F | 23 | 4-9 | 1-1 | 1-5 | 2-6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| T. Kolek | G | 35 | 5-11 | 6-8 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| K. Jones | G | 30 | 8-14 | 2-4 | 5-10 | 0-1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| S. Mitchell | G | 25 | 5-7 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 |
| D. Joplin | 19 | 2-7 | 0-2 | 2-7 | 1-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| S. Jones | 13 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| B. Gold | 11 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| C. Ross | 10 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| M. Kennedy | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 200 | 32-64 (.500) |
21-28 (.750) |
11-31 (.355) |
8-27 | 24 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 22 | 96 | |
