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Marquette is playing its best ball right in the nick of time.

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s regular season closing win over  Creighton at the Bradley Center. Be sure to click on the images to see them in full size. Photos by Anthony Giacomino and Ryan Messier.  

Sometime after Marquette closed out the regular season with a convincing victory over Creighton, a new consensus started bubbling up on Twitter that Team Bubble Watch shouldn’t be counting its chickens just yet, and that another victory over Seton Hall would be necessary for lock status. It manifested itself in to these two blurbs from well-respected national […]

It doesn’t take a stathead to know Marquette doesn’t have a great defense. Heck, it barely takes more than watching one half most games. But for those with even a cursory knowledge of the stats can tell you Marquette is one of the worst defenses of top-100 teams, according to KenPom (134 overall, 4th worst of […]

I think you need a degree in Bracketology to decipher this, but here’s my attempt.  If Marquette Loses 6th seed Wins by Providence and Seton Hall; Any result for Xavier MU Plays Creighton Win by Seton Hall; Losses by Providence and Xavier MU Plays Creighton Losses by Providence, Seton Hall, Xavier MU Plays Creighton 5th Seed […]

Following the loss to Providence a a couple weeks back, I went on an weeks long Twitter rant dismissing Wojo’s ability to draw up a good play coming after timeouts, or ATOs, as the cool kids call it.  That's what you run if you are out of timeouts and yell from the sideline. — Paint Touches […]