Jamarques Lawrence Season 2025-26

Honors & Awards

• Big Ten Freshman of the Week (March 6, 2023)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2024)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2022, 2025; Spring 2023)
• UNL Bronze Academic Medallion (2024)
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2023, 2024)

2025-26 (Senior)
• Jamarques Lawrence returned to Nebraska for his senior year and was one of two Huskers to start all 35 games on NU's Sweet 16 team
• Averaged 9.8 points and a career-high 3.8 assists per game while posting a 1.9-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio
• Reached double figures 16 times, including a trio of 20-point efforts, after having one 20-point game in his first three seasons of college hoops
• Totaled nine points, including 2-of-4 from 3-point range, and two assists in the Sweet 16 game vs. Iowa
• Battled foul trouble vs. No. 16 Vanderbilt and finished with nine points and a pair of steals in 21 minutes 
• Went over 1,000 career points as he had 13 points and three assists without a turnover in 24 minutes vs. Troy
• Matched his career high with seven assists and added six points and three rebounds vs. USC
• Matched his career high with seven assists and had 12 points in his homecoming at Rutgers
• Posted his third 20-point game of the year at No. 3 Michigan with 20 points, including 4-of-9 from 3-point range, and four assists
• Totaled 14 points, five rebounds and five assists in the win at Minnesota, his 10th double-figure effort of the year
• Poured in a career high 27 points on 8-of-13 shooting (5-8 from 3) at Indiana, while addding five boards, three assists and three steals
• Finished with 14 points and three assists in NU's 58-56 win over No. 9 Michigan State
• Totaled 14 points, four rebounds and three assists in the win over North Dakota
• Had 11 of his 14 points in the second half at No. 13 Illinois, including the game-winning 3-pointer with 0.2 seconds left while chipping in six assists
• Set a then-career high with 21 points on 6-of-9 shooting and added three rebounds and three assists vs. New Mexico
• Scored all 14 of his points in the second half, including a trio of 3-pointers, and added four assists in NU’s comeback win over Oklahoma
• Tied a career high with five 3-pointers as he totaled 18 points and six assists in the win over West Georgia

2024-25 (at Rhode Island)
Jamarques (pronounced juh-MAR-kiss) Lawrence spent the 2024-25 season at Rhode Island, where he started all 31 games and averaged 9.9 points, 2.5 assists and 1.8 rebounds per game. Hed paced the Rams with 59 3-pointers and shot 39 percent from 3-point range and 87 percent from the foul line.  Lawrance ranked second on the team in assists (76) and steals (23) and minutes per game (28.8). He posted 13 double-figure games, including a career-high 20 points and four steals against Saint Bonaventure and 19 points at Saint Louis, when he connected on 5-of-6 from 3-point range.

2023-24 (Sophmore)
Lawrence played in all 34 games in 2023-24, averaging 6.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game as Nebraska reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014. Lawrence started the first 23 games at point guard before moving to the bench for the final stretch of the season. He flourished in his new role, averaging 9.5 points per game while shooting 55 percent from the field and 52 percent from 3-point range over his last 11 games. He totaled nine points, two assists and a pair of steals vs. No. 13 Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals and had 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting against Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament.

Lawrence had seven double-figure efforts in Big Ten play, including four times after moving to the bench. His best game as a Husker came at Indiana, when he had a season-high 19 points, including a school-record 5-of-5 from 3-point range, six rebounds and five assists. He tied for team-high honors with 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting and a team-high five assists at Ohio State and finished with 16 points and seven rebounds against Minnesota.  He also had double figures in both matchups with Northwestern, including 12 points in Evanston and 10 points, five rebounds and three assists in the home win over the Wildcats.

In non-conference play, Lawrence finished with 14 points and three assists in the win over North Dakota and 11 points and a career-high six assists in the win over Cal State Fullerton.

2022-23 (Freshman)
Jamarques Lawrence emerged as a significant contributor as a true freshman. He appeared in 28 games, including 12 starts, and averaged 5.0 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game. After a season-ending injury to Emmanuel Bandoumel in mid-January, Lawrence moved into the lineup and flourished, averaging 9.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game while shooting 39 percent from 3-point range. He had all seven of his double-figure efforts in that stretch, including 15-point games against Michigan State and at Iowa. 

His most extensive action in non-conference action came at Kansas State when he tallied nine points and five rebounds in 18 minutes off the bench. Lawrence, who played more than 15 minutes once in NU's first 17 games, had six points in 22 minutes at No. 4 Purdue and five points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer, and four boards in 19 minutes in a win over Ohio State. Lawrence made his first career start against Northwestern on Jan. 25, and had 12 points, including four 3-pointers, and three assists in 33 minutes. He nearly posted a double-double in the win over Penn State on Feb. 5 with 11 points, nine rebounds and three assists. He closed the year playing his best basketball with four straight double-figure games and averaging 13.3 points on 53 percent shooting, including 46 percent from 3-point range, along with 4.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. The stretch featured a pair of 15-point games against Michigan State and Iowa when he earned Big Ten Freshman-of-the-Week accolades. Against MSU, he hit 7-of-10 shots from the field, while he sank a career-high five 3-pointers and added a season-best four assists in the win at Iowa.

Before Nebraska
A consensus three-star prospect, Jamarques Lawrence spent the last two seasons at perennial power Roselle Catholic High School playing for Coach Dave Boff. The program went 29-2 on the year en route to winning the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions title. Roselle Catholic finished in the top 10 by both Max Preps (fourth) and USA Today (sixth). 

The 6-foot-2, 185-pound guard was ranked as high as No. 145 nationally by Rivals and was among the top 250 seniors by 247Sports. As a senior in 2021-22, he earned first-team all-state honors by averaging 15.9 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.8 steals per game for the top-ranked team in New Jersey while averaging nearly two 3-pointers per contest. He reached double figures 22 times as a senior, including eight games of at least 20 points, including a season-high 26-point effort against The Patrick School. He had 21 points and 10 rebounds against Trenton Catholic in the state title game and 18 points and 10 rebounds in the Tournament of Champions semifinal. 

As a junior, he averaged 13.6 points, 2.8 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.5 steals per game, as Roselle Catholic posted a 15-3 mark in a shortened season. He finished in double figures in 10 of 15 contests, including a 23-point effort against The Patrick School. Lawrence had four-or-more 3-pointers five times, including one game with six 3-pointers.  Lawrence, who spent his first two seasons at Plainfield High School, averaged 20.3 ppg as a sophomore, including 81 3-pointers. In his four-year high school career, he totaled 1,447 points, including over 200 3-pointers, as well as 280 rebounds and 250 assists in 91 contests.  Lawrence played AAU hoops for the NY Jayhawks and Coach Jay David. Lawrence chose Nebraska over a host of schools including Wake Forest, DePaul, Virginia Tech, Cal and Wichita State.

Personal
The son of Jacqueline Jones (Duncan), Jamarques has two older brothers (Derek Jones and Kareem Lawrence). Jamarques is majoring in human development and family science.