Kam Jones is already one of the four most prolific three-point shooters in program history. How much further can he climb as a senior?
By now, you should be more than familiar with our series of regularly updating leaderboards for various Marquette Golden Eagles sports accomplishments. Keep checking back to that link in the previous sentence for our charts as the seasons continue to churn through history and MU’s various teams continue to create new memories and accomplishments.
This time around, we’re looking at the 10 men who have made the most three-point baskets in a career in program history, as well as the guys who are chasing their way towards the top 10.
In 2024-25, that means we’re primarily keeping an eye on Kam Jones, just like we were last year.
A year ago, Kam Jones headed into the season with 156 made threes. That was still a ways off from Brian Wardle in 10th place all time with 197, but Jones had splashed 100 triples as a sophomore. It seemed very clear that he was going to go rocketing into the top 10 as the season chugged along. That ended up being completely accurate as he hit 95 of his 234 long range attempts as a junior. That was down in number of attempts from sophomore year, but up in conversion rate as he shot just over 40% by the end of the season. That ended up pushing him past Sam Hauser and into fourth place all time in Marquette history.
He’s still there right now, on December 20th, just with 22 more made threes than he started the 2024-25 season. He needs just 11 more to tie and 12 to pass Travis Diener for third place in program history. Another 80 — getting him towards that 100 that he hit as a sophomore — and he’ll be just one short of tying Steve Novak for the second most in program history.
So the balance of “what does Marquette need from Kam Jones” will be the determining factor in whether or not he has a shot at catching Novak, it seems. If getting downhill and going to the rim is the most important thing to generate points for the offense, that’s going to limit his long range shooting a bit. Still, he’s going to sail past Diener no matter what, and #3 all-time behind Novak and Markus Howard is nothing to hang your head about at the end of the day.
Kam Jones isn’t Marquette’s leader in made threes this season. That’s actually David Joplin, who has 26 so far this year. That moves his career total to 182, putting him 15 away from tying Brian Wardle for what used to be 10th place before Kam Jones went soaring past him. Joplin’s putting in 2.2 three-pointers per game on average this season, and with 19 regular season games and one guaranteed Big East tournament game left to go, he’s on pace to get to 70 threes this season. That would get him to 226 on the season, and just a shade past Aaron Hutchins for seventh place all-time.
Here’s what the chart looks like after Marquette’s December 18th game against Butler.