Paint Touches

I was minding my own business while working last month, getting ready to pick up my kids and scrolling through Twitter a bit. As is usually the case, I ran into something that stuck with me the rest of the day. Eyeballing a generic PG rating: Assist% / 5 + Steal% x 2 – TOV% […]

Villanova and Xavier set a new record for a regular season Big East game on FS1, and made a lot of noise in doing so.

Marquette’s victory over Creighton on Wednesday was quite the upset, according to KenPom and Vegas, and seems to have sparked a bit of life in what had become a dormant #mubb writer.  However I don’t have enough time to fully research a column or deep dive, and instead will stick to a sort of stream of […]

Marquette opened as a 19-point underdog in its trip to Villanova tonight, which caught my attention, as I didn’t recall Marquette ever being given so many points.  After a bit of searching, it turns out that my initial assumption was correct. Marquette has only been given 19 or more points once since the 1999-2000 season, […]

No.  Yes, he hasn’t been good at it. (After a 1-5 night in Providence, his season average is down to an awful 25.5% on 51 attempts.) Yes, he has forced up way too many in poor situations. (He’s never taken less than two 3s in a game and only made two 3s in three games.) […]

I went off on a tangent on Twitter today, which is not my usual medium, so I figured I’d put it here as well for those that might have missed it. My apologies to those who saw it twice. Watching Buddy splashing pull-up 3s last night got me thinking of DJO's PUJITs and how #mubb […]