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Markus, MU have a big, short and midrange problem

If you have a Twitter, like well made informative charts, and don’t follow @jgtrends on Twitter, you’re really missing out on some of the most insightful advanced metrics in college basketball as a whole. Yesterday in particular, he put out this chart of the points each shot has been worth to top-25 teams this year, […]

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What are the seeding stakes at play for MU?

It was all good just 2 weeks ago. Having won 5 of the past 6 games and rising to top 25 status in both the AP poll and Ken Pom, Marquette had all the momentum and opportunity to start thinking about possibly reaching protected seed (top-4) status in NCAA Tournament seeding. Sure sweeping 3 of […]

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Wojo to Howard: “You don’t have to go it alone”

With a little over 14 minutes to go in Sunday’s game against Butler, Markus Howard, fresh off missing a tough stepback 3, drove a congested lane and forced up a tough shot that was blocked out of bounds. This is a fairly common occurance, and doesn’t usually merit striping down and posting online, but this […]

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Sacar Anim is the model for Marquette

Markus Howard gets the limelight, but Sacar Anim is working his way into Marquette history.

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Is Markus Howard clutch?

Fans tend to make generalizations on limited data, but upon further review, Markus is as clutch as the next best Big East player.

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How to lose a game in 10 plays

Losing a giftwrapped game takes a lot of work. Here’s the 10 plays that did the heavy lifting.

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