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===== ESPN Recap ===== | ===== ESPN Recap ===== | ||
- | ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Dominic James scored a career-high 29 points and Steve Novak added 24 to lead Marquette to a 82-79 win over DePaul on Tuesday night. | + | ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- [[Dominic James]] scored a career-high 29 points and [[Steve Novak]] added 24 to lead Marquette to a 82-79 win over DePaul on Tuesday night. Marquette (13-5, 3-2 Big East) was able to hold off a furious Blue Demons rally. [[DePaul]] (8-8, 1-4) was able to cut a 24-point deficit to two points inside a minute left. Trailing 72-59, [[DePaul]] outscored Marquette 7-2 in a three-minute span to get within 74-66 on a Sammy Mejia 3 with 3:55 left in the game. Mejia banked in a 3 with 1:03 left to close it within 76-72. He then came back with another basket for DePaul, cutting the lead to 78-74 with 34.3 left. [[DePaul]] put [[Dan Fitzgerald]] on the line, who missed both free throws. Draelon Burns got fouled for DePaul and made two free throws to cut it to 78-76 with 21.4 left, but Novak followed with a pair of free throws. Burns got fouled again and hit one of two from the line, and [[Jamil Lott]] iced it with two free throws for Marquette. |
- | Marquette | + | James and Novak got hot quick. James finished an alley-oop to give Marquette |
- | Trailing 72-59, DePaul outscored Marquette 7-2 in a three-minute span to get within 74-66 on a Sammy Mejia 3 with 3:55 left in the game. | + | Marquette was 10-for-12 from 3-point range in the first half as a team and shot 64.3 percent overall. |
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- | Mejia banked in a 3 with 1:03 left to close it within 76-72. He then came back with another basket for DePaul, cutting the lead to 78-74 with 34.3 left. | + | |
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- | DePaul put Dan Fitzgerald on the line, who missed both free throws. Draelon Burns got fouled for DePaul and made two free throws to cut it to 78-76 with 21.4 left, but Novak followed with a pair of free throws. | + | |
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- | Burns got fouled again and hit one of two from the line, and Jamil Lott iced it with two free throws for Marquette. | + | |
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- | James and Novak got hot quick. James finished an alley-oop to give Marquette a 19-6 lead, then he hit a 3 that made it 25-10 midway through the first half. Novak piled it on with another 3 to extend the lead to 30-12. James hit his second 3-pointer of the half to give Marquette its largest lead of the game at 46-22. | + | |
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- | DePaul trailed 49-30 at the half. | + | |
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- | Marquette was 10-for-12 from 3-point range in the first half as a team and shot 64.3 percent overall. | + | |
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- | Jerel McNeal finished with 11 points and seven assists for Marquette, and Joe Chapman had 11 points. | + | |
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- | Mejia finished with 24 points for DePaul, and Burns added 22. | + | |
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- | DePaul played without starting forward Wilson Chandler, who was suspended for violating a team policy. He is the team's leading rebounder. | + | |