Paint Touches

We spend 3 to 4 months leading up to the season obsessively clicking on every way-too-early ranking, parsing each useless projected March Madness bracket and otherwise binging on any morsel or blurb mentioning our favorite team. But by December, all of those hours spent angrily yelling on Twitter about perceived slights are pretty much forgotten […]

Thanks to the more than 450 of you that took time out to complete the Big East fan survey on preseason projections, we have a pretty robust dataset to parse through. Although Marquette fans once more dominated the responses, with over 54% being self-proclaimed #mubb fans, we still were able to get a great a […]

Going into the his freshman campaign last year, I had fairly minimal expectations for Chase Ross. He wasn’t a heralded recruit. He wasn’t the talk of the preseason. He didn’t play in the open scrimmage. And the backcourt was fairly jammed. In my own preseason estimates, he was going to see the lowest number of […]

It’s here. The season opener may still be almost a month away but there’s no doubt that college basketball season is upon us. Current students are preparing for mid-terms, Milwaukee has developed a noticeable chill in the air, and Jon Rothstein is tweeting out obvious statements and claiming they are the product of well embedded […]

Every year I take the media’s projections and try to set a baseline for how the Big East will shake out. But this season, with a lot of inspiration from Kevin Farrahar at Friar Basketball, I wanted to get a crowd consensus to throw into the mix as well. Fill out the form below, which […]

One of my favorite things to do all summer is collect Big East projections and line ’em all up to create one big repository. I’ve done it each of the past 3 years and find it not only makes me smarter about non-BE teams, it also helps give me perspective. And in years like Marquette […]