{"id":423432,"date":"2024-11-28T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=423432"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"No-10-Marquette-rolls-past-Stonehill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/No-10-Marquette-rolls-past-Stonehill\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 10 Marquette rolls past Stonehill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Joplin scored 27 points and Kam Jones and Damarius Owens added 14 apiece as 10th-ranked Marquette rolled to a 94-59 nonconference victory over Stonehill on Wednesday night in Milwaukee. Marquette (7-0) gained control with a 17-7 run to end the first half for a 51-31 lead at the break, a season high for first-half points. Joplin, who had a career-high 29 points in Marquette&#8217;s previous game, an 80-69 win over Georgia, hit 10 of 12 shots, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range. He also pulled down a team-leading seven rebounds. Owens, a 6-7 freshman guard who missed the first three games after suffering a toe injury, made 5 of 8 shots, including all three 3-point attempts. His previous single-game high was three points. Amir Nesbitt had 14 points and Hermann Koffi added 13 for Stonehill (4-5), who was without leading scorer Josh Morgan (15.4 points per game). Morgan has been playing through a foot injury, but was held out against Marquette, the team announced. Marquette had an overwhelming 52-26 edge on points in the paint and a 25-8 advantage in points off turnovers. The Golden Eagles shot 60.7 percent. The commanding lead allowed Marquette to get several reserves significant minutes, resulting in a 31-7 advantage in points off the bench. Joplin had 20 first-half points for the Golden Eagles, hitting 8 of 9 shots. Marquette shot 62.5 percent in the first half, hitting 20 of 32 shots, including 8 of 15 from deep. Owens added nine points in the first half on three 3-pointers. Nesbitt had 11 points before the break for the Skyhawks, who actually shot 56.5 percent in the first half. Joplin scored 13 of Marquette&#8217;s first 19 points, hitting all five of his shots, including three beyond the arc. His third 3-pointer put the Golden Eagles up 19-8 with 13:30 left in the first half. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/754f3651e63ceb738be4dbde2a68f4c2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Marquette guard Kam Jones (1) makes a move on Stonehill guard Hermann Koffi (10) during the first half of their game Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>-Mark Hoffman\/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Joplin scored 27 points and Kam Jones and Damarius Owens added 14 apiece as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}