Paint Touches

With more than half the season behind us, it’s time for the nation to start putting more respect on Oso’s name.

That’s a question that feels presumptuous to ask at any time in January, let alone when Marquette doesn’t even hold the best record in the conference. But after a thorough demolishing of a Seton Hall team that had just beaten UConn in that same arena days before, it wasn’t just Marquette fans that were starting […]

Synergy has given us a way to measure shot quality, and the results put Marquette in an even better light.

Although both of Shaka’s Marquette squads were picked to finish 9th, there aren’t a ton of similarities between them at the moment.

Shaka has repeatedly noted he’s building Marquette off of retention and growth. The results to date have defied what was thought possible.

Coming into the year, I wrote at length at how Marquette’s potential defensive improvement could paper over potential offensive struggles and help MU overachieve the low expectations en route to a top half finish in the Big East. And much like Tyler Kolek said to all those doubters, this squad has taken the projected offensive […]