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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 […]

It started out looking like Vanderbilt 2.0 with the No. 23/21 Louisville Cardinals building an 18-2 lead to open the game. But No. 21/22 Marquette overcame that early 16-point deficit to defeat Louisville 74-63 on Monday afternoon. Louisville hit 7-of-12 shots (58.3 percent) during the first 6:02 of play, including 4-of-6 (66.7 percent) from three-point […]

Basketball is a team sport. Not exactly breaking news. When teammates create offensive opportunities for one another and turn over their opposition, that’s typically a recipe for success. But the No. 25/24 Marquette Golden Eagles have struggled to grasp the concept and properly execute it over their previous six contests, including during Saturday’s 62-57 victory […]

Leading scorer Kyle Kuric sprained his ankle on the first play of practice Friday and missed the DePaul game and is questionable for Monday. If he does play, he’s sure to give Marquette all it can handle. The 6-foot-4 shooting guard is hitting on over 49 percent of his shots and can get hot from […]

Opening statement I thought we played more minutes of us than we have been playing. I didn’t think that we started great, had too many live ball turnovers early. Their first seven field goal attempts, they offensive rebounded six of them. They’re number one in the country in offensive rebound percentage. After that sequence I […]