Paint Touches

With Marquette’s 71-64 victory at Illinois, the Golden Eagles broke an over decade long streak of not winning a true road game in November (a 75-72 win at UWM on Nov 27, 2010). Some of that is that the season is starting earlier and earlier, so there are more November games, and another part is […]

I don’t normally write much after a cupcake. Any stats pulled out have too tiny a sample to be worth discussing. And there’s not a ton to take away from end to end blowouts. But I needed to expand on the attendance, so am using this pace for that and a few other blurbs. Record […]

Before every season, I like to put my money where my mouth is and project how many minutes each player will play. It’s not that I’m particularly good at it (far from it) but it’s a great way to see just how much changes from what the narrative/expectation is the 6 months of the offseason. […]

We spend 3 to 4 months leading up to the season obsessively clicking on every way-too-early ranking, parsing each useless projected March Madness bracket and otherwise binging on any morsel or blurb mentioning our favorite team. But by December, all of those hours spent angrily yelling on Twitter about perceived slights are pretty much forgotten […]

Thanks to the more than 450 of you that took time out to complete the Big East fan survey on preseason projections, we have a pretty robust dataset to parse through. Although Marquette fans once more dominated the responses, with over 54% being self-proclaimed #mubb fans, we still were able to get a great a […]

Going into the his freshman campaign last year, I had fairly minimal expectations for Chase Ross. He wasn’t a heralded recruit. He wasn’t the talk of the preseason. He didn’t play in the open scrimmage. And the backcourt was fairly jammed. In my own preseason estimates, he was going to see the lowest number of […]