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Marquette won all three of its home games this past week despite falling behind early in each. The Golden Eagles were helped out by a handful of spectacular performances and now begin a seven-game stretch against unranked opponents, beginning with a road contest against Providence. 1. True or false: Davante Gardner is more important to Marquette’s […]

Originally published in the Marquette Tribune on Jan. 19 The No. 21/22 Marquette Golden Eagles held serve at home last week and now will attempt to match their winning ways on the road when they travel to Providence to battle the Friars on Saturday. After a six-game stretch in 16 days, coach Buzz Williams’ group […]

Today’s Marquette Tribune featured an editorial asking new Vice President and Director of Athletics Larry Williams to be active in changing the Marquette athletics’ culture. The editorial believed “the best place to start would be with our most prominent athletics programs: men and women’s basketball.” You can read the editorial here, which discusses the preferential […]

Sophomore Davante Gardner came to Marquette known as “Ox” because of his large frame and rough style of play inside. Following Marquette’s 74-63 win over Louisville, head coach Buzz Williams may have coined a new nickname for the budding star forward. “You throw him the ball, and it’s like a Jack-in-the-box,” Williams said. “Throw him […]

Marquette head coach Buzz Williams isn’t sure why his team is having trouble in the early portion of games. If he did, he would have told them by now. The Golden Eagles won all three games at home over the past six days to move to 4-2 in Big East play, but they didn’t do […]