Paint Touches

Joseph Chartouny was not the best player on the transfer market, but for Marquette, he was the perfect one.

I make a note of rounding up all the preseason projections before the season starts, to be able to gauge what the national, unbiased consensus is and to be able to measure against at the end of the season. And although there are still a few games remaining that will have minimal impact on the final […]

(Editor’s note: Marquette declined to make Steve Wojciechowski available for an interview.) The biggest story from last night’s season-ending defeat came via the acknowledgement from Marquette that Sam Hauser would require surgery to repair a hip injury that had been bothering him since before the start of the season, and that the recovery would take […]

I’ve long been fascinated with the financial aspect of sports, but particularly as it pertains to Marquette. Not everyone’s cup of tea, I know, but it can be very difficult to track down information at both a macro (NCAA) and micro (MU) level. So in the interest of serving the public interest, I thought I’d […]

I spent a bit of time Sunday going over how a deep NIT run could help Marquette next season, but while we’re over here grasping at NIT branded straws, I do think getting a few extra games against decent match-ups is going to do wonders for the record books. The Treys Amigos are already sneaking […]

On Friday morning, when I started seeing the updated brackets roll in following Marquette’s loss to Villanova and saw that the consolidating consensus was that MU would not make it in, I started thinking a bit more about the NIT.  I can’t speak for everyone, but just hearing the words NIT means the season was […]