Paint Touches

Welcome to Paint Touches’ 2016 Transfer Tracker. This list is our attempt at making sense of the hundreds of transfers that are bound to occur in the 2016 offseason. Every player on this list is a traditional transfer, which is to say that they will need to sit out the 2016-2017 season. If you’re looking […]

(Editors Note: We will be updating this story after every game to keep it current.) The days of Henry Ellenson playing competitive basketball in a Marquette uniform is coming to a close. That alone should be enough motive for you to watch each and every second left this season, whether it be one game or […]

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, […]