Paint Touches

On the heels of its biggest win of the 2012-13 season, Marquette heads back to the BMO Harris Bradley Center after a one-week finals layoff to host Savannah State on Saturday afternoon. The Golden Eagles last took the court on Saturday against Wisconsin, using a big first half to hold on late, 60-50, against the […]

Lost in the madness that is conference realignment — complete with millions of dollars at stake, late-night meetings in New York City with athletic directors and rumors floating around the clock — are the players themselves. Two members of Marquette’s 2013 recruiting class, point guard Duane Wilson and power forward Jameel McKay, spoke with Paint […]

The day has come. After 15 months of limbo and departures, beginning with Pittsburgh and Syracuse, followed by West Virginia and TCU, then Notre Dame and Rutgers and finally Louisville, the seven non-football schools of the remaining Big East have decided to split from the football playing members, according to reports from Gary Parrish and […]

Vander Blue won’t admit it. He’ll tell you everything you want to hear, that Saturday night’s 60-50 victory over Wisconsin was just another tally in the win column. That it was one Marquette needed to avoid falling to 5-3 early in the season. He’ll say that playing against the hometown school, the same school he […]

It took Derrick Wilson all of seven games into his freshman season to earn him the label of defensive stopper. The box score didn’t tell the story — he grabbed two rebounds and committed three fouls in 20 minutes, and nothing else — but his determined defense on preseason All-American Jordan Taylor was perhaps one […]

The Big East continues to show its dominance in the national polls, with five teams in the AP Top 25. Only the Big Ten (6) has more. As always, the team in green is our team of the week and the team in red is the one that disappointed. Previous: Week 1 Week 2 1. […]