Paint Touches

The Paint Touches crew has touched down in Louisville and is ready to provide unprecedented coverage of Marquette’s quest to repeat 2003. Well, unprecedented may be a bit strong but you get the picture. We will start off with a few clips of the open practice held at the YUM! Center today, with more in […]

Here’s a quick look at what some national writers have to say at first glance about Marquette’s chances in the Tourney in the Twittersphere, with a dash of Dwyane Wade for good measure. (Click on the pictures to see them in full size.)

Mark Strotman will have the full write-up tomorrow, but after seeing the way West Virginia fans feel the world is out to get them, a quick chart should settle things (ok it won’t settle anything because they love a good conspiracy theory). Just look at the way Crowder finished the year. He dominated Kevin Jones […]

With less than one week of games remaining, we’re down to the home stretch of the Big East season. Marquette finds itself in unprecedented territory boasting not one but two candidates for Big East Player of the Year. We made the case for Jae Crowder last week — as has the great Cracked Sidewalks blog, Jay […]

A wise man once said, “A team should be a extension of the coach’s personality.” That man was none other than Al McGuire, the patron saint of Marquette basketball who routinely finished the phrase by saying: “my teams are obnoxious and arrogant.” More than 30 years have passed since the colorful warrior paced the sidelines, […]

It’s no secret that SI’s Luke Winn has some tremendous chart and graphic making skills. If you don’t believe me just check out this week’s Power Rankings and see the wealth of visual information he provides. My only gripe with Mr. Winn is that he has yet to make a super cool graphic for Marquette this […]