Paint Touches

At one point during the first half of Iowa’s dismemberment of Marquette, my wife came back from putting our daughter to bed and saw the Hawkeye lead had ballooned to 23. Seeing the distraught look on my face, she turned to me and said “It’s still not as bad as that Vanderbilt game.” Phrases like these […]

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 […]

Years ago, when the world was smaller, NBA shooting guard Lazar Hayward was a center. Yeah, all 6-foot-6 of him. Those weren’t exactly the Dark Ages of Marquette basketball – the 2009-2010 team went 22-12 in a loaded Big East and was a 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament, after all – but they were, […]

A few weeks back, we were tipped off that students buying basketball season tickets were asked to submit new names for the student section. The current unnamed unit is typically referred to as “The Best Student Section in the Country” at tip-off, a generally hyperbolous statement made comical when there are at most 150 kids […]

With my days in the office winding down before making my pilgrimage to the mecca that is the Midwest, I had to do some last minute shopping for bosses and co-workers. What was slated to be a quick trip turned out lengthier than reasonably expected, and I ended up missing the first 10 or so […]

If you told me I could lay a C-note on Marquette to beat Wisconsin, I’d check my wallet to make sure you didn’t just rob me. If you told me I could lay a C-note on Marquette to beat Wisconsin and I’d get the 10-point spread Vegas is giving, I would laugh and tell you I’d […]