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The Marquette Golden Eagles will open up their 2011-2012 season in exactly three weeks at the Bradley Center, which means we have 21 days to bring you as much preseason coverage to get you ready. From Darius Johnson-Odom to Derrick Wilson, every player will enter the season with expectations. It would seem that each of […]

Big East writers preseason poll The Big East writers revealed how they thought the season would shake out, predicting Syracuse to top the league, Providence to hang on for dear life, and our very own Golden Eagles to finish in fifth. DJO also selected to the All-Big East team, receiving two votes for Player of […]

You don’t need to remind Vander Blue that his freshman year was anything but spectacular. From the media backlash regarding his recruitment to unrealistic expectations that he, Marquette’s highest rated recruit since Doc Rivers, would start from day one and have a major impact, the cards were stacked against Blue and he was forced to […]

Story by Mark Strotman published in the Marquette Tribune on Oct. 18. Not too many basketball recruits from sunny Oakland, Calif., wind up playing in Milwaukee. But for freshman Juan Anderson, the opportunity to play at Marquette was too great to pass up. The 6-foot-6 wing ultimately chose the Golden Eagles over Arizona State and […]

The Business First Journal published a fascinating report last week breaking down how much universities earn, spend and make on college basketball. The information is freely available to anyone through the department of education but the table in the first link makes it very easy to compare different schools, so go check it out. One […]

Last week, the experts at NBA Draft Express ranked the top NBA prospects in the Big East Conference for the upcoming season. There was little shock that Connecticut’s sophomore guard Jeremy Lamb was ranked No. 1, followed by Villanova’s sophomore forward Mouphtaou Yarou. Both are hard to debate, as they have the youth and athleticism […]