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Vander Blue scored a team-high 16 points, including a buzzer beating lay-up in overtime, to lead Marquette to a 69-67 victory over St. John’s, and a share of the 2013 Big East regular season championship. Jamil Wilson scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds, while Davante Gardner added 10 and six of his own. The […]

About 13 years ago, a young assistant at Northwestern State was asked what his ultimate coaching fantasy would be. The 27-year-old responded: “As a Division I coach, my team wins the conference championship in a game televised by ESPN with all of the players’ families in the stands.” That was Buzz Williams’ wildest dream just […]

With the official announcement of the new Big East reportedly coming today, the question that will most be asked is: how good will it actually be? I went into this a bit last week as a response to a columnist falsely claiming the gap between the new Big East and the leftovers it was leaving […]

Vander Blue had been quiet the last three games, and Buzz Williams deflected criticism from his junior shooting guard by saying the flow of the game didn’t call for the Golden Eagles’ leading scorer to put up points. Whether that was the case, Blue was called upon Tuesday night in New Jersey and came up […]

Vander Blue (22 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast) Vander started out missing an assortment of shots, threes, midrange jumpers, in the lane, you name it. They weren’t bad shots, they just simply weren’t going in. He started heating up as the half went on, though, and finished it with eight points all while keeping Marquett […]