2025-26 Marquette Men’s Basketball Player Review: #0 Nigel James

With the 2025-26 season long since in the books, let’s take a few moments to look back at the performance of each member of YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles this year. While we’re at it, we’ll also take a look back at our player previews and see how our preseason prognostications stack up with how things actually played out. We’ll run through the roster in order of total minutes played going from lowest to highest, and today we move along to the ascending star freshman on the roster…….

Nigel James

Freshman — #0 — Guard — 6’0” — 185 lbs — Huntington, New York

Games

Min

FGM

FGA

FG%

3PTM

3PA

3P%

FTM

FTA

FT%

OReb

DReb

Reb

Ast

Stl

Blk

Fouls

Pts

32

29.2

6.2

13.1

47.0%

1.3

3.8

34.7%

2.8

4.1

69.2%

0.8

2.7

3.4

4.9

1.9

0.3

2.2

16.4

ORtg

%Poss

%Shots

eFG%

TS%

OR%

DR%

ARate

TORate

Blk%

Stl%

FC/40

FD/40

FTRate

106.7

30.5%***

29.8%**

52.0%

54.7%

2.8%

10.4%

37.3%****

17.7%

1.2%

3.9%**

3.0

4.6*

31.0%

* — Notes a top 500 national ranking per KenPom.com
** — Notes a top 100 national ranking per KenPom.com
*** — Notes a top 50 national ranking per KenPom.com
**** — Notes a top 20 national ranking per KenPom.com

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WHAT WE SAID:

Reasonable Expectations

The word “reasonable” is the thing that we have to hold on to here, because of the fact that James has ultimately turned into the most heralded recruiting prospect in the Class of 2025 for Marquette. By default, that should sound an awful lot like he should be at the very least a notable contributor for the Golden Eagles this fall.

Except we could have said the same thing for Damarius Owens last year when he came in as a top 70 prospect in the 247 Sports Composite rankings and he averaged less than 10 minutes a game. If I was writing a Summer Vibe Check for Marquette going into this year, I probably would have skipped Owens as a Notable Returning Player. The year before, Tre Norman was a top 90 prospect in the 247 Composite, and two years later, we’re still waiting to see him pop out as a notable contributor for the Golden Eagles.

You see my point here.

But with Marquette…

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Publish date : 2026-05-28 14:45:00

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