Paint Touches

On a day when Marquette celebrated its 95-year history, a strong defensive second half propelled the Golden Eagles (14-4, 3-2 Big East) over a struggling Pittsburgh (11-7, 0-5 Big East) squad 62-57. Junior guard Junior Cadougan didn’t light up the scoreboard, but ran the offense with precision, dishing out nine assists —six in the second […]

On today’s show Mark Strotman spoke with Troy Machir, writer for the Ballin’ Is A Habit college basketball blog. He and Rob Dauster are currently on a three-week road trip across the Midwest traveling to various stadiums and arenas to take in all the college basketball they can handle. You can see their running diary […]

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, […]