Paint Touches

Jayce Johnson has proven to be even better than his rebounding stats would suggest.

As the calendar turned to 2020 on Dec. 31st and Marquette prepared to launch its Big East campaign in Omaha, MU boasted a good to very good defense, rated as the 40th best in the country with a 91.1 Adjusted Defensive rating on KenPom. Just 3 weeks later, the AdjD rating has tumbled 3 full […]

There are about 37 negative ways to analyze Marquette’s drubbing at Creighton, but the thing that stuck with me well into the morning was Theo John’s 8 minutes. After all, it was Creighton’s coach Greg McDermott himself who was caught in a huddle last season instructing his players not to take it into that “monster” […]

It’s that time of the year again. No not that one. Weekly Big East tiers are officially back! Almost every team (but Marquette) has played double digit games, and though 10 or so games isn’t a big sample, per se, when it constitutes 33% of your total output, it’s large enough to start writing about. By […]

With 3 kids under 6, seeing a 9 PM (ET) tip time for Marquette any given day gives me a quick jolt of life. Not only will I be able to watch the game on the big TV, I’ll get to watch it uninterrupted without bedtime duties or any other of the 3,000 distractions the […]

Coming into the season, expectations for Koby McEwen were higher than they probably should have been (and I said as much back in October), but a fantastic showing against Purdue proved right away what kind of lift the Utah State transfer could provide. I've watched Koby put the defender on skates with that shoulder fake […]