Author Archives | Andrei Greska

Day 4 Pro-Am highlights and notebook

We finally made it out to the Scion Dental Milwaukee Pro-Am on Saturday afternoon and were able to quench some of that #mubb thirst that the offseason creates. (It’s not said enough but Jim Ganzer does a fantastic job setting this event up and it’s well worth an hour or two of your time. Check […]

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Greska: Class of 2013 crucial for Buzz Williams

Note: I hate hyperbole in writing. There are so many words in the English language to accurately portray a certain event/feeling/situation that going to the extremes strikes me as lazy and unintelligent. It’s even more irritating in sports writing. If you can’t find an apt comparison without thoughtlessly drabbing generalizations all over the place, you […]

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Analyzing Marquette’s transfers under Buzz Williams

There has been a lot  of talk about a transfer epidemic in college basketball with coaches and media alike bemoaning the “me-first” culture pervading today’s youth. Yet  the transfer rate remains steady around 9 to 12 percent, according to Sports Illustrated’s Luke Winn. That’s less than the national average for non student-athletes as the New […]

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Marquette transfer table

Not all transfers are created equal, as four of these players never made it to the first day of fall classes. So while the “transfer” label may not exactly fit, they still make it into our table of players to leave Buzz Williams and Marquette. (We also didn’t include Juan Anderson and Jake Thomas as […]

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Where are they now: Rob Frozena and Tommy Brice

21 points. 10 rebounds. 3 assists. No, this isn’t the stat line of one great game but rather the career numbers of fan favorite Rob Frozena in his four year Marquette career. Fan favorite may be underselling it a bit. He was a rock star with the crowd chanting his name on a regular basis, […]

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Where are they now: Jerel McNeal

It’s not easy going from being one of the most decorated players in Marquette history to yet another name in the long list of NCAA athletes passed up by the NBA. Jerel McNeal’s transformation from a scrawny teen out of Hillcrest High School in Illinois to one of the most gifted scorers in the game […]

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