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It’s not even remotely close to the time to hit the panic button on Marquette, but no one would blame you if you’ve thought about locating said button. The fact of the matter is Marquette will struggle mightily against teams with true inside presences. Davante Gardner hasn’t shown enough improvement defensively. Buzz Williams admitted that […]

Ken Pomeroy (KenPom.com) is a website that looks at advanced statistics in college basketball and can be a solid indicator of efficiency, both by team and individually. Marquette is currently ranked as the No. 7 team in the nation based on his numbers and there are a handful of glaring statistics that show just how […]

Nobody likes a week between games, so here’s some quick analysis on each player through nine games. Enjoy. PG Junior Cadougan: What he has done well: The early reports that Cadougan was ready to make the jump to one of the best distributor’s in the Big East have rang true this year, as the junior […]

For the first time in 33 games there was a new man taking the opening tip for the No 11/11 Marquette Golden Eagles (9-0) on Saturday night: Davante Gardner. The sophomore forward started in place of redshirt junior center Chris Otule who missed his first full game with a left ACL injury that will force […]

Jae Crowder was staring his second straight sub-par performance in the face. After scoring two points and grabbing three rebounds in 24 foul-plagued minutes in a win over Wisconsin Saturday, he had come out flat again. Then he simply took over. The senior forward owned the final 14 minutes of Marquette’s 79-77 win over Washington […]

1. Derrick Wilson: He played 20 minutes, did not attempt a field goal and had three personal fouls. And he was Marquette’s most important player player Saturday afternoon. After news broke just before tip-off that junior point guard Junior Cadougan had been benched for breaking team rules, Wilson was inserted into the starting lineup for […]