David Joplin made six 3-pointers to highlight his career-high 29-point performance, lifting No. 15 Marquette to an 80-69 win over Georgia on Saturday in Nassau, Bahamas.
Chase Ross and Ben Gold chipped in 14 points apiece and Kam Jones added 10 points and seven assists for the Golden Eagles (6-0), who scored nine straight points after the Bulldogs closed within 69-66 with just under five minutes remaining.
Blue Cain led Georgia (5-1) with 17 points on 5-for-10 shooting from 3-point range. Tyrin Lawrence had 15 points and Dakota Leffew added 11 off the bench. Silas Demary Jr. tallied 10 points and seven boards.
After Joplin’s fifth triple extended Marquette’s advantage to 60-46 with 10:30 left, Leffew knocked down consecutive 3-pointers to jump start an 11-0 Bulldogs run. A 3-pointer by Cain trimmed the Golden Eagles’ lead to three again with 4:58 to go, but Georgia went scoreless over the next 4:09 as Marquette pulled away.
No. 6 Purdue 80, Marshall 45
Trey Kaufman-Renn scored a game-high 18 points as the Boilermakers blasted the Thundering Herd in West Lafayette, Ind.
Purdue (5-1) tweaked its lineup with starting center Daniel Jacobsen out with a leg injury. Camden Heide and Myles Colvin each scored 13 points in their first career starts. The Boilermakers shot 50 percent from the field (24-for-48) and 6-of-16 (37.5 percent) from 3-point range.
Nate Martin scored nine points and pulled down seven rebounds to lead Marshall (3-2), which was held to 30.2 percent shooting and missed 28 of its 32 3-point attempts.
No. 18 Cincinnati 81, Georgia Tech 58
Dillon Mitchell scored 14 points and had 11 rebounds to lead the Bearcats to a win over the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta.
Mitchell, a transfer from Texas, recorded his first double-double since joining the Bearcats and the 10th of his career. Cincinnati (5-0) also received 14 points and five rebounds from Connor Hickman and 14 points, seven assists and two steals from Jizzle James.
Georgia Tech (2-3) was led by Naithan George with 13 points and Duncan Powell with 10. The Yellow Jackets have lost two straight.
No. 25 Illinois 87, Maryland Eastern Shore 40
Will Riley scored a game-high 19 points off the bench as the Fighting Illini shrugged off a slow start to roll past the Eagles in Champaign, Ill.
Morez Johnson Jr. recorded his first double-double this season with 10 points and 13 rebounds, Kylan Boswell posted 13 points and Tomislav Ivisic contributed 11 for Illinois (4-1). Coming off a 100-87 loss to No. 8 Alabama on Wednesday, the Illini led by as much as 52 despite hitting just 10 of 40 3-point attempts.
Jalen Ware paced Maryland Eastern Shore (2-6) with 10 points before fouling out. Ketron “KC” Shaw, who ranks sixth in Division I with 23.4 points per game, went scoreless in the first half and finished with seven points on 2-of-11 shooting.
