Paint Touches

LOUISVILLE — He knows. Don’t ask me how or where Buzz Williams learned it, he just does. He knows when the red light comes on. He knows when the spotlight is brightest. He knows exactly how to get the people going. Earlier last week Buzz referred to his seniors — Darius Johnson-Odom and Jae Crowder […]

After an 88-68 trashing of BYU, Marquette moves on to the third round of the NCAA Tournament to face the sixth-seeded Murray State Racers (31-1). Steve Prohm’s group used a big second half to pull away from the 11th-seeded Colorado State Rams on Thursday to advance, and Saturday’s matchup will pit two top-11 teams in […]

It’s March Madness baby. Everyone’s favorite time of the college basketball season. It’s win or go home. Here is our Five Point Play previewing the NCAA Tournament. Also, attached is our bracket orchestrated by Mark Strotman, Andrei Greska and Mike Nelson. Click on the image for a closer look where you can actually read the […]

For the past two days, Marquette heard plenty of chatter regarding Brigham Young’s interior size, height advantage at each position and two leading scorers, Noah Hartsock and Brandon Davies, who stood 6-foot-8 and 6-foot-9, respectively. Thursday afternoon, the Golden Eagles quit listening and instead let their play do the talking. The result was a dominating […]

The Cougars were unable to replicate the historical comeback they had on Tuesday, when they came back from down 25 to beat Iona in the first round. Jae Crowder finished with 25 points and a career-high 16 rebounds and Darius Johnson-Odom added 20 points in the Golden Eagles’ 88-68 win over BYU in the second […]