Right after the Big East announced the availability reports for Marquette’s men’s basketball game against #4 UConn on Sunday morning, three hours before tipoff, the official Marquette team Twitter account
provided a slight bit of extra context. Sean Jones is out for Sunday’s game with some sort of foot injury.
Props to whoever was manning the keyboard for this tweet, as they managed to not appear to admit that part of Sean Jones’ foot was in an altercation with another part of his foot.
This will be the seventh game that Jones, a redshirt junior guard, will miss this season. After starting in Marquette’s first three games of the year, he missed the next six with a shoulder issue. That injury was enough to keep Jones in a sling that immobilized his arm to let it heal, and I’d be willing to bet that he’s not 100% back from that now, not quite two months later.
This is just speculation, but if he has a foot injury that’s severe enough to keep him out of a game on Sunday afternoon, then we have to wonder when the next time we will see Jones in action for Marquette will be. The team is not saying he’s done for the year, so we can guess that it’s just a temporary thing. Lots of basketball players all across the country are playing with a ding of some kind or another right now, but Jones is out. I’d have to presume that means we won’t see him in action at Fiserv Forum against Xavier on Wednesday night at the very least.
Jones is averaging 6.3 points, 1.4 rebounds, and a team high 3.9 assists per game this season. He’s shooting just 32% from behind the three-point line and only 30% on two-pointers. Since returning from his shoulder issue, Jones is averaging 6.4 points, 1.2 rebounds, and 3.8 assists while shooting 40% behind the arc…. but just 2-for-11 (18%) inside of it.
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