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It’s been a week since Marquette took down the Badgers and erased Bo Ryan’s empire from existence, but there’s one stat that still has me befuddled. How in the world did Marquette outscore Wisconsin 17-2 in transition? The Badgers aren’t the Final Four team from last year, of course, but the past 14 years have proven that […]

With the season almost a third of the way through, it’s time to bring back an old standby and gauge where Marquette stands to date. 1) Who has been Marquette’s MVP through the first 9 games? Andrei Greska, Paint Touches: I posed this question on Twitter because it truly can go a few ways. Traci […]

Problem 1: Nobody was watching Big East teams play cupcakes in November. Problem 2: “Big” teams are generally unwilling to play November road games against top competition. Problem 3: FS1 is still relatively unknown for non-MMA/non-racing fans. Solution: Coerce one of the “Big” conference into a series. When they were announced last May, we said the […]

Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy likes to say that statistics are for losers. Pick that or any similar adjective and it would adequately describe what Marquette did against Iowa for 36 minutes Thursday night. Believe it or not, the final score, 89-61, makes the game seem closer than what it was. The stats — […]

With the season just a few crab dribbles away, the bracket projections are coming out hot and heavy. The consensus when it comes to Marquette: uncertainty.  Don’t take my word for it though, here is where Marquette sits nationally on the bracketology spectrum: SI: Last 4 In ESPN: Last 4 In NBC: Next 4 Out USA […]

ESPN writer John Gasaway wrote a very insightful piece yesterday using numbers to detail why the Big East still constituted a “major” conference. (The piece is paywalled, so if you don’t have Insider, try this.)  If you reached this post, you are probably a Marquette fan, or at least a fan of another Big East program, so […]