No. 7 Marquette eyes 10-0 home start vs. improving Georgetown

No. 7 Marquette will put a pair of perfect records on the line Tuesday night when it hosts upstart Georgetown in Milwaukee.The Golden Eagles (13-2, 4-0 Big East) have won four in a row overall and all nine games at home this season.Kam Jones overcame a disastrous start in which he missed his first seven shots to score 15 of his 22 points in the second half, lifting Marquette to a 79-71 victory over visiting Creighton on Friday.Jones, who leads the team with 20.3 points and 6.5 assists per game, also had nine rebounds and five assists for the Golden Eagles, who have won their first four conference games for the first time since 2012-13.”We all want him to have the ball down the stretch. He’s going to be Kam regardless,” Marquette’s Stevie Mitchell said, per the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.Mitchell scored 14 of his 18 points in the first half. He also had three steals to boost his total to 12 over the last three games.”I’m going to do what I do best, and that’s guard,” Mitchell said. “Make their opposing point guard uncomfortable. Fly around.”There’s so much more to the game than scoring points. So I think when you focus on all that stuff, the points are just the cherry on top. If the ball goes in, great. If it doesn’t, I can still bring energy. I can still fly around. I can still give EGBs (energy-generating behavior) to my teammates. I can still get deflections. I can still crash the glass. I mean, there’s so many more things.”Marquette coach Shaka Smart sees value in what Mitchell brings to the table.”He’s just got this energy that’s unique to him that nobody else has,” Smart said. “Particularly when he’s kind of in that Stevie mode that is superhuman.”… We’re going to miss him a lot when he’s gone. So I tell myself in moments like that to make sure to appreciate him.”

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