Paint Touches

Remember that one time Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski got so amped before a non-conference game he punched a whiteboard and tore up his hand? If so, it shouldn’t be a surprise that he can dial up to 100 real quick on the sidelines.  Even so, seeing him do so in August in a friendly during […]

A few weeks back, we were tipped off that students buying basketball season tickets were asked to submit new names for the student section. The current unnamed unit is typically referred to as “The Best Student Section in the Country” at tip-off, a generally hyperbolous statement made comical when there are at most 150 kids […]

The basketball season kicked off on Friday with the annual Marquette Madness festivities. Paint Touches’ photographer Anthony Giacomino was there to catch some of the best moments, as shown below. Be sure to click on the individual images to enlarge them.

ESPN writer John Gasaway wrote a very insightful piece yesterday using numbers to detail why the Big East still constituted a “major” conference. (The piece is paywalled, so if you don’t have Insider, try this.)  If you reached this post, you are probably a Marquette fan, or at least a fan of another Big East program, so […]

As I wrote last week, I’m not about to make grand declarations from four semi-competitive games in August. Yes, Marquette went 4-0 and generally looked impressive, but the quality of competition isn’t high to begin with, and those teams were in preseason form as well. It was 1,000 times better than Pro-Am scrimmages, but still […]

It’s not even September and we are about to get a taste of Marquette basketball in a competitive setting. No practice whispers, no Pro-Am myths. Real, live basketball. Giddy doesn’t begin to describe my interest level. Reading this all-access primer from Sports Illustrated’s Brian Hamilton took it to another level. If there was ever a […]