It was a special night for Marquis Nowell to perform on the big Garden stage in the Sweet 16.
Isiah Thomas and Mateen Cleaves were sitting together in their front-row Garden seats, talking the whole night about the stunning toughness and poise being shown by Markquis Nowell. Cleaves once won a championship for Michigan State after thinking he had broken his ankle during that 2000 title game against Florida.
Out of Harlem, Nowell finished with 20 points and an NCAA Tournament record 19 assists. He finished with five steals and only two turnovers, and left the valiant Walker, the Michigan State star out of Christ the King High in Queens, face down on the floor in defeat while the Wildcats mobbed their quarterback down the other end.“This one was special in front of my hometown,” he said later, “in front of the city that loves me.
As it turned out, the toughest and grittiest player on the floor was Nowell, who went down in a heap with his ankle injury and somehow returned to put on a remarkable show.In the immediate wake of his injury, Nowell had given the Wildcats a thunderous jolt of energy. He ran down a loose ball and banked home a lunging 3-pointer to beat the shot-clock buzzer before hobbling and hopping one-legged down the floor.
Nowell had heard all the stories about the Isiah Finals against the Lakers. But the Kansas State playmaker wasn’t thinking about that when he saw Thomas in the stands, sitting with Cleaves and other Michigan State dignitaries.
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