Paint Touches

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 […]

I came across a really good video on Twitter that highlighted Tyler Kolek’s special passing ability passing under pressure, and after going through coach Drew Dunlop’s full timeline, found 3 additional breakdowns. They are an incredible reminder that Tyler’s passing isn’t just limited to pick and roll proficiency, and a great taste of what we […]

Having spent an inordinate amount of time collecting TV data over the past decade, I find that TV designation day, the day when the Big East and its teams releases the tip times and TV homes for all games, is more exciting than schedule release day. We already know all 10 opponents and have a […]