Paint Touches

From preseason rankings to where teams are now, there has not been a more disappointing team in college basketball than the Pittsburgh Panthers. Losers of five straight, including four in conference play, the Panthers will look to pick up their first Big East win Saturday against Marquette. Here’s a look at Jamie Dixon’s squad and […]

After Wednesday’s 83-64 victory over St. John’s the Marquette Golden Eagles (, the two game losing streak was over, and Marquette is now .500 in conference. But that victory came on the back end of losses in three of its previous four contests and some of its worst basketball of the year. With redshirt junior […]

Buzz Williams’ new terminology, paint touches, has taken a life of its own. While it certainly is not a new philosophy for basketball coaches, wanting teams to get the ball into the painted area of the court for high percentage shots and to suck defenses in, Williams has insisted that, night in and night out, […]

Mike Dunlap, St. John’s interim head coach Opening statement “Talking about the first half and check off a number of boxes in a positive way and in the second half, they (Marquette) were grittier, they came after us and we didn’t do very well with that. A lot of our turnovers led to easy baskets, […]

Looking at the final score, it was difficult to imagine that Marquette (13-4, 2-2 Big East) trailed at halftime, or any other point in an 83-64 win over St. John’s (8-8, 2-3 Big East) Wednesday night. The was the case, however, as Marquette found itself down 32-31 at halftime, while playing without senior guard Darius […]

Marquette returns home to take on the St. John’s Red Storm after a winless two-game road trip out east last week. Losses at Georgetown and Syracuse dropped the Golden Eagles to 1-2 in conference play but have looked better since losing Chris Otule to a knee injury on Dec. 3. If there’s a team in […]