Paint Touches

When a Junior Cadougan-less Marquette team went into Madison, Wis., and defeated Jordan Taylor and the Badgers, the Internet was buzzing. Marquette was ranked 16th in the country and upended the 7th ranked team in the country, ending a 23-game home winning streak in the process. And, in reality, that was the birth of Paint […]

When freshman Junior Cadougan crumbled to the Kasten gym floor in September 2009 with a torn Achilles tendon , it left an already thin point-guard position even weaker. The top-100 recruit was expected to play a significant role on Marquette’s second unit, but a four-to-six month rehabilitation prognosis ended those talks for the foreseeable future. […]

Almost two months ago we selected the first hypothetical Big East All-NBA team, with convoluted rules–obviously Dwyane Wade never played in the Big East–but pretty decent results. Why were they decent? ESPN said so, duh. ESPN once again released its list of the NBA’s top 500 players to much consternation and backlash on social media. […]

Junior Cadougan won 97 games in his four seasons at Marquette. After tearing his Achilles tendon during his freshman season, Cadougan led the Golden Eagles to three straight Sweet 16 appearances, including an Elite Eight spot last year. He, along with Dominic James (for one season), Mo Acker and Dwight Buycks are the only consistent […]

Duane Wilson will miss the start of the season, Marquette’s Twitter account revealed on Monday. At 6-foot-2, 180 pounds, Wilson was expected to be a contributor from day one backing up Derrick Wilson at point guard. He possessed incredible quickness in high school and AAU ball that made him a consensus top-75 player, ranked as […]

It’s like clockwork. The AP will release its poll. Twitter will rise up in anger over so and so being too low and so and so’s rival being overrated. In response to that response a chorus of Tweets will ensue about how it’s just a meaningless poll and people should stop obsessing over it. Back […]