Paint Touches

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s season-opening victory over Northern Illinois. Be sure to click on the images to see them in full size. Photos by Ryan Messier.

I don’t normally write much after a cupcake. Any stats pulled out have too tiny a sample to be worth discussing. And there’s not a ton to take away from end to end blowouts. But I needed to expand on the attendance, so am using this pace for that and a few other blurbs. Record […]

There are a million blessings I’ve been given in this life, but one of the best is to have a son that loves sports more than I do. He’ll wake up and watch the YouTube recap of last night’s games. First thing he does when he gets home from school, weather permitting, is go to […]

Sometimes you write 2,000+ words about what expectations you have for each player. (CLICK HERE). Sometimes you post a screenshot of a few #mubb peeps putting out game by game predictions. Once again, I seem to be the pessimist of the bunch, 3 games back of the consensus average. For a far more entertaining and […]

Before every season, I like to put my money where my mouth is and project how many minutes each player will play. It’s not that I’m particularly good at it (far from it) but it’s a great way to see just how much changes from what the narrative/expectation is the 6 months of the offseason. […]

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 […]