Archive | 2015

Preseason Preview: San Jose State

Marquette Madness has come and gone. The season is so close, we can taste it. Marquette fans know who we will battle but might not know anything about our future opponents. To remedy this, Paint Touches is taking an in depth look at each of Marquette’s opponents, both conference and non-conference, to see what we […]

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Preseason Preview: Chicago State

Marquette Madness has come and gone. The season is so close, we can taste it. Marquette fans know who we will battle but might not know anything about our future opponents. To remedy this, Paint Touches is taking an in depth look at each of Marquette’s opponents, both conference and non-conference, to see what we […]

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Preseason Previews: Grambling State

Marquette Madness has come and gone. The season is so close, we can taste it. Marquette fans know who we will battle but might not know anything about our future opponents. To remedy this, Paint Touches is taking an in depth look at each of Marquette’s opponents, both conference and non-conference, to see what we […]

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Marquette Madness 2015: Photo Gallery

The basketball season kicked off on Friday with the annual Marquette Madness festivities. Paint Touches’ photographer Anthony Giacomino was there to catch some of the best moments, as shown below. Be sure to click on the individual images to enlarge them.

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Does it matter if the Big East is a major conference?

ESPN writer John Gasaway wrote a very insightful piece yesterday using numbers to detail why the Big East still constituted a “major” conference. (The piece is paywalled, so if you don’t have Insider, try this.)  If you reached this post, you are probably a Marquette fan, or at least a fan of another Big East program, so […]

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Italy Box Scores and Player Averages

Finally found the time to rewatch the four Italy games and keep a box score for each. I am not a professional scorekeeper, so there may be a few discrepancies here and there. One issue was the approximately three minutes and thirty seconds of game time against LSU Atletas that was lost due to bad […]

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