Paint Touches

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s Big East opening loss to Xavier at the Bradley Center.

In the months leading up to the season, we here at Paint Touches released our top 50 players in the Big East. This list was based on a formula we created in house that tried to marry advanced stats like eFG% and dPPP with more traditional stats like PPG and RPG to forecast how individual […]

Sam Hauser in the NBA? It’s time to start the conversation.

With the demolition of American complete, Marquette turned it’s sights to Big East play and the daunting challenge that will present. But we’re not quite ready to move on. We have a few days before Xavier rolls into town, so I felt it was appropriate to take a step back.  Before a game was played, […]

With Big East play right around the corner, we have enough evidence to start gaming out the true quality of teams, rather than relying on a few outliers, whether positive or negative.  Don’t just take my word for it, though. Every week, I play around with TRank’s conference efficiency map to get a gauge of […]

Rejoice Marquette faithful, for we have witnessed the completion of another successful Badger Hate Week, the holiest week in the Marquette basketball calendar. The Badger has seen his shadow is unlikely to arise from his Kohl Hole for many months…or at least until its next game for another round of whack a mole. Some may […]