Paint Touches

We would like to welcome you to the new Paint Touches website. This is an exciting time for the two of us and we are ecstatic to share it with our loyal readers. When we began PaintTouches.com in the summer of 2011 our goals and expectations were steep. We committed to covering Marquette objectively and […]

Statline: 26 pts, 8 reb, 7-7 FG, 12-13 FT, 33 min Quality of opponent: 8/10. Two thoughts here. 1)Syracuse came into the Bradley Center for the final time in a bit of a slump that would turn into a downright freefall, losing five of eight games and causing coach Jim Boeheim to blow up at the […]

Statline: 30 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast, 34 min, 13-20 fg Quality of opponent: 3/10. If this were Jeopardy and the answer was South Florida, the question would be something like: What is turrible? That may seem a little harsh, but for a team coming off a two-win NCAA Tournament appearance, the Bulls took a giant leap […]

Statline: 17 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast, 7-14 FG, 2-2 3FG, 35 min Quality of opponent: 7/10. If you had asked this directly after the game, the answer would have most likely been 6/10. If you had asked this during the Badgers’ conference season the answer would have been 8/10. With the benefit of hindsight, […]

The top 10 10. Trent Lockett vs. Miami 9. Jamil Wilson vs. Miami Stat line: 16 pts, 4 reb, 2 blk, 8-8 fg, 25 min Quality of opponent: 7/10. This Notre Dame squad didn’t scare you on paper or even on the floor, but as Marquette found out just two weeks later, it definitely was no slouch. The […]

Stat line: 8 pts, 11 reb, 2 ast, 38 min. Quality of opponent: 9/10. Miami came into this Sweet 16 matchup as a solid favorite to advance. They were the ACC regular season and tournament champions, having spent the last two months of the season in the top-10 of the AP polls, reaching as high as […]