Paint Touches

The ink on the 2018 season wasn’t even dry yet when one glaring takeaway was already burning brightly. The Big East will be much weaker both individually and as a whole. Sure, Villanova was losing the National Player of the Year as well as another lottery pick, but it wasn’t just the reigning champs that […]

Sam Hauser has been one of the best players in the Big East. When will the public at large catch up?

#mubb released the new season ticket prices and chart, and for the most part, it's substantially less then I had expected/projected based on the survey options they presented. pic.twitter.com/zK9J1tWGxJ — Paint Touches (@PaintTouches) May 10, 2018 Marquette released the pricing for 2018-’19 season tickets on Thursday, an event that usually would not get coverage in […]

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 […]