Marquette grinds out a 64-63 win over Kansas State

Marquette collected its first road win of the Shaka Smart era with a gutsy victory over the Kansas State Wildcats Wednesday evening. A bounce back game was needed after the Golden Eagles looked overmatched for much of their contest against Wisconsin on December 4th, ultimately dropping that game 89-76. A bounce back was exactly what they got with a rollercoaster of a game ending with MU on top, 64-63.

A made three pointer by Kam Jones with 33 seconds left proved to be the difference in this one, but Marquette likely wouldn’t have been in a spot to close out that game without the stat-stuffing performance from Justin Lewis. Lewis finished with 14/9/5 on 43% shooting, but 10 of those points…