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Today’s Marquette Tribune featured an editorial asking new Vice President and Director of Athletics Larry Williams to be active in changing the Marquette athletics’ culture. The editorial believed “the best place to start would be with our most prominent athletics programs: men and women’s basketball.” You can read the editorial here, which discusses the preferential […]

Sophomore Davante Gardner came to Marquette known as “Ox” because of his large frame and rough style of play inside. Following Marquette’s 74-63 win over Louisville, head coach Buzz Williams may have coined a new nickname for the budding star forward. “You throw him the ball, and it’s like a Jack-in-the-box,” Williams said. “Throw him […]

Marquette head coach Buzz Williams isn’t sure why his team is having trouble in the early portion of games. If he did, he would have told them by now. The Golden Eagles won all three games at home over the past six days to move to 4-2 in Big East play, but they didn’t do […]

Leading scorer Kyle Kuric sprained his ankle on the first play of practice Friday and missed the DePaul game and is questionable for Monday. If he does play, he’s sure to give Marquette all it can handle. The 6-foot-4 shooting guard is hitting on over 49 percent of his shots and can get hot from […]

On today’s show Mark Strotman spoke with Troy Machir, writer for the Ballin’ Is A Habit college basketball blog. He and Rob Dauster are currently on a three-week road trip across the Midwest traveling to various stadiums and arenas to take in all the college basketball they can handle. You can see their running diary […]

From preseason rankings to where teams are now, there has not been a more disappointing team in college basketball than the Pittsburgh Panthers. Losers of five straight, including four in conference play, the Panthers will look to pick up their first Big East win Saturday against Marquette. Here’s a look at Jamie Dixon’s squad and […]