Kam Jones sent Marquette to our Sweet 16 of new Value Add Basketball Game teams as one of the only players who could have avoided a turnover on a "41" roll to then hit a 3-pointer at the horn to beat Creighton 94-93 and set up a game with Duke's 2015 national champs.
While Marquette had a disappointing 2nd round loss to Michigan State last year and Duke exploded to the title in 2015 - heading into that tournament Duke was ranked #5 by the AP and #6 at www.kenpom.com while basically the same team right now is ranked #3 by the AP and #5 at www.kenpom.com after Tuesday night's win vs. Southern - which I attended.
The mismatch appears to be based on NBA talent, where Duke 2015 may be the only team in our game with eight NBA players. However, even this is interesting since we mark players as "NBA" if they either played in the league or are forecast to go in one of the next two NBA drafts at NBADraft.net. Marquette had only one NBA player in the game in Olivier-Maxence Prosper, however that changed recently. Kam Jones moved into a projected 2025 2nd round pick, and then this week he was moved up to a projected 2024 projected pick and Oso Ighodaro shot all the way to the top of the 2nd round in the 2024 draft and on the verge of being projected as a 1st rounder.
In this game, Marquette led only a few times in a back-and-forth stretch starting with 22 possessions left (13:11) when Olivier-Maxence Prosper scored to make it 52-50 Marquette, through the 16th possession left when Justise Winslow stole a pass and scored on the fast break to put Duke ahead for good 57-56.
As great as Jones' card is, a mismatch was created because Marquette starts three pure guards with little rebounding, while the 6'6 powerful Winslow is one of three overpowering frontline Duke players (6'11 Jahlil Okafor and 6'9 Amile Jefferson are the others even after 7'0 Marshall Plumlee plays the opening minutes. When a defensive rebound opportunity came to Jones on the rebound chart he never got it because his 1-0 range (meaning no roll on the 6-sided die), meaning Winslow always go the offensive rebound, while when the rebound chart came to the chart gave the rebound chart gave Winslow the chance as the offensive small forward he also got it with his 1-6.
Note on the scoresheet that every other possession the ball automatically goes to a defensive player, so when Duke missed on possession 27 and 6 the rebound they went to Jones. However, Winslow towered over Jones to grab eight rebounds to those two and this included sticking it back in at the half for a 34-32 lead, and twice again in the second half. But the true killer was when Okafor grabbed an offensive rebound and kicked it out to Winslow, who hit a 3-pointer due to s shot off an offensive rebound lowering the 20-sided die one number which meant a "3" was a 3-pointer made instead of a 2-pointer to give Duke a 65-58 lead with 12 possessions (6:26) left in the game.
Marquette would rally to cut it within 71-73, and fouled Amile Jefferson twice at the end for a chance at the win. Jefferson is only a 1-11 on the 20-sided die to make a free throw (55%) but he hit all four at the end to pull out the 75-73 win. Here is the box score and photo of the sheet, followed by the entire Sweet 16 match-ups.
| Pos | Stam | 14-seed Marquette 2023 (73) | Pts | Reb | Stl | Blk | Fls | Ht | NBA | Actual Stats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-PG | 42 | Tyler Kolek | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6'3 | 12.9 Pts, 4.1 Reb, 7.5 Ast | |
| 2-SG | 27 | Stevie Mitchell | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6'2 | 7.1 Pts, 2.9 Reb, 1.0 Ast | |
| 3-SF | 37 | Kameron Jones | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6'4 | NBA | 15.1 Pts, 3.6 Reb, 2.0 Ast |
| 4-PF | 36 | Olivier-Maxence Prosper | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'8 | NBA | 12.5 Pts, 4.7 Reb, 0.7 Ast |
| 5-C | 40 | Oso Ighodaro | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6'9 | NBA | 11.4 Pts, 5.9 Reb, 3.3 Ast |
| 1-PG | 4 | Sean Jones | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5'10 | 3.6 Pts, 0.8 Reb, 1.1 Ast | |
| 2-SG | 15 | Chase Ross | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6'4 | 4.6 Pts, 1.7 Reb, 0.8 Ast | |
| 3-SF | 15 | David Joplin | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6'7 | 9.2 Pts, 3.2 Reb, 0.8 Ast | |
| 4-PF | 0 | Keeyan Itejere | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'9 | 0.8 Pts, 0.5 Reb, 0.0 Ast | |
| 5-C | 4 | Ben Gold | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'11 | 2.7 Pts, 1.0 Reb, 0.2 Ast | |
| 220 | Total Turnovers 12 | 73 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 17 | ||||
| Pos | Stam | 6-seed Duke 2015 (75) | Pts | Reb | Stl | Blk | Fls | Ht | NBA | Actual Stats |
| 1-PG | 44 | Tyus Jones | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6'1 | NBA | 11.8 Pts, 3.5 Reb, 5.6 Ast |
| 2-SG | 44 | Quinn Cook | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6'2 | NBA | 15.3 Pts, 3.4 Reb, 2.6 Ast |
| 3-SF | 37 | Justise Winslow | 23 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6'6 | NBA | 12.6 Pts, 6.5 Reb, 2.1 Ast |
| 4-PF | 37 | Jahlil Okafor | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6'11 | NBA | 17.3 Pts, 8.5 Reb, 1.3 Ast |
| 5-C | 24 | Amile Jefferson | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6'9 | NBA | 6.1 Pts, 5.8 Reb, 0.8 Ast |
| 1-PG | 4 | Rasheed Sulaimon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'5 | 7.5 Pts, 2.0 Reb, 1.8 Ast | |
| 2-SG | 20 | Matt Jones | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6'5 | 6.0 Pts, 2.3 Reb, 1.0 Ast | |
| 3-SF | 5 | Grayson Allen | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6'4 | NBA | 4.4 Pts, 1.0 Reb, 0.4 Ast |
| 4-PF | 5 | Marshall Plumlee | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7'0 | NBA | 2.2 Pts, 2.4 Reb, 0.3 Ast |
| 5-C | 0 | Semi Ojeleye | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6'8 | NBA | 3.0 Pts, 2.3 Reb, 0.2 Ast |
| 220 | Total Turnovers 12 | 73 | 32 | 9 | 4 | 15 | Game Turnovers 12 |
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