MARQUETTE FROSH PLAYS BIG IN UPSET OF WISCONSIN
Marquette 67, No. 4 Wisconsin 65
Justin Lewis expected D.J. Carton to win the game for Marquette from the foul line.
When that didn’t happen, Lewis delivered in the nick of time, picking up his teammate and snapping No. 4 Wisconsin’s 11-game winning streak.
Lewis, a freshman, scored 18 points and converted a putback off Carton’s missed free throw at the buzzer as Marquette knocked off the Badgers 6765 on Friday night.
“Nobody was hoping that D.J. missed obviously, but to have the foresight to be ready to try to make a play if he did miss is incredible for any player, but especially a freshman,” Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski said.
The game marked one of the most thrilling of the 127 meetings between the two in-state foes whose campuses are about 75 miles apart, though the absence of spectators at Fiserv Forum due to the pandemic gave the latest edition of the rivalry a different feel.
The lead changed hands six times in the final 70 seconds. Neither team led by more than six points.
Wisconsin (3-1) led 65-64 when Carton drew a foul from Badgers guard D’Mitrik Trice just inside the 3-point arc with ninetenths of a second left. Trice, who led Wisconsin with 17 points, referred to it as a “bonehead play on my part.”
“I tried to take a charge,” said Trice, whose jumper had put Wisconsin ahead with 5.8 seconds left. “Obviously it was a block. It’s just something that I’ve got to learn from. If I had to run that play back, I would just slide my feet and stay in front of him.”
Carton made the f irst free throw, but his second attempt bounced off the rim.
Lewis got into the paint
and tapped the ball with his right hand. The freshman’s shot hit the front of the rim and went off the backboard before falling through the basket to win the game as his teammates mobbed him under the basket.
“The second shot, I didn’t even look up because I
wanted him to send us home,” Lewis said. “Then, it went off, and I just crashed and tipped it in.”
No. 6, Duke 76, Bellarmine 54: Matthew Hurt scored 24 points, including six of Duke’s 13 3-pointers, and the Blue Devils (2-1) used a 19-2 run in the second half to cruise past Bellarmine (0-1).
No. 8 Michigan State 83, Detroit Mercy 76: Rocket Watts scored a career-high 23 points and Michigan State (4-0) started out f lat against Detroit Mercy (0-1) but avoided a huge upset. The Titans (0-1) led by five points midway through the second half.
No. 9 Creighton 93, Kennesaw State 58: Marcus Zegarowski and Ryan Kalkbrenner scored 14 points apiece to lead Creighton (3-0) in a rout of Kennesaw State (2-2). Creighton coach Greg McDermott went nine deep into his bench in the first half and 13 of his players got minutes.
No. 15 Virginia 71, Kent State 64 (OT): Sam Hauser scored six of his 18 points in overtime and host Virginia (3-1) avoided a second upset by an unranked, nonconference foe, holding on to beat Kent State (1-1). Hauser scored the first five points of the extra period.
No. 17, Texas Tech 80,
Troy 46: Mac McClung scored 17 of his 20 points in the first half and Texas Tech (3-1) led big early in a victory over Troy (1-2) in a replacement game for both teams.
No. 21 Oregon 83, Seton Hall 70: Eugene Omoruyi scored 22 points as the Ducks (1-1) beat the Pirates (1-3), in Omaha, Neb., where Oregon coach Dana Altman used to coach at Creighton.
West
Boise State 86, College of Idaho 49: The host Broncos (2-1) had an easy time with the Yotes (1-1) behind 19 points from Abu Kigab.
USF 88, Cal Poly 60: Jamaree Bouyea had 18 points and five assists, Dzmitry Ryuny added 15 points with 10 rebounds, and San Francisco (4-2) beat host Cal Poly (1-1).
Loyola Marymount 85, Long Beach State 61: Guard Joe Quintana scored 20 points for LMU (2-2) in a victory over visiting Long Beach State, which was playing its first game.