WASHINGTON — Kam Jones, Oso Ighodaro and Tyler Kolek each scored 14 points to lead a balanced scoring attack and Marquette defeated Georgetown 89-75 in the NCAA college basketball game.
Olivier-Maxence Prosper had 11 points and Chase Ross added 10 as Marquette (20-6, 12-3 Big East) moved into first place in the conference.
“It´s just what we do. We had a bunch of assists and a bunch of guys in double-figures,” Jones said according to AP.
Meanwhile, Kyrie Irving had 25 points and 10 assists as the Dallas Mavericks beat the Sacramento Kings 122-114 for their third straight win.
Josh Green scored 17 points and Tim Hardaway Jr. added 15 as the Mavericks won for the fifth time in six games.
Elsewhere, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, elsewhere, matched his career high with 44 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 138-129 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.
Gilgeous-Alexander was 13 of 16 from the floor and hit 18 of 19 free-throw attempts. He is the first player in Thunder history to score 40-plus points on 80% shooting. He also had seven assists.
“Shot a lot of free throws tonight for sure. That helps,” he said. “I just played in my comfort zone. I tried to put pressure on the defense a lot.”
Josh Giddey added 19 points for the Thunder, who had lost three of their previous five games.
Damian Lillard led the Trail Blazers with 38 points, and Jerami Grant added 23.
It was back-and-forth for much of the game, but Portland went up 112-103 in the fourth quarter on Anfernee Simons’ 3-pointer.
But the Thunder took over, boosted by a 16-2 run.
Oklahoma City closed within 112-111 on Isaiah Joe’s 3-pointer and then went ahead on Giddey’s jumper with 7:31 left. Lillard answered with a basket that gave Portland back a slim lead.
Gilgeous-Alexander’s dunk gave Oklahoma City a 119-114 lead with 5:22 to go. Lu Dort’s 3-pointer made it 129-121 with 2:45 left to all but seal it for the Thunder. Dort finished with 18 points off the bench.
“From halftime on we were saying internally that we were going to have to get stops if we wanted to get the game — otherwise it was going to be a scoring fest, first to 140-type thing,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said.
“It took us a while to get there … but once we got going, we got into nice defensive rhythm, we were really active, really helping each other, really engaged.”
The Trail Blazers started Cam Reddish, who they acquired in a trade before the deadline with the Knicks. Reddish scored 11 points starting in place of Josh Hart, who was sent to New York in the deal.
“We just couldn´t stop a nosebleed, man. It was really bad,” Blazers coach Chauncey Billups said.
“But it started you know at the start, really. And they´re a tough team to guard. They really are.”
Grant was hit in the face midway through the first quarter and fell to the court. He stayed down for several moments before heading to the locker room. He returned in the second quarter.
