Paint Touches

Sometime after Marquette closed out the regular season with a convincing victory over Creighton, a new consensus started bubbling up on Twitter that Team Bubble Watch shouldn’t be counting its chickens just yet, and that another victory over Seton Hall would be necessary for lock status. It manifested itself in to these two blurbs from well-respected national […]

I think you need a degree in Bracketology to decipher this, but here’s my attempt.  If Marquette Loses 6th seed Wins by Providence and Seton Hall; Any result for Xavier MU Plays Creighton Win by Seton Hall; Losses by Providence and Xavier MU Plays Creighton Losses by Providence, Seton Hall, Xavier MU Plays Creighton 5th Seed […]

After a two year hiatus, Marquette is reprising its role as Team Bubble Watch and that is a wonderful thing. During the first two years of the Wojo era, all but the most hopeful of Marquette fans knew that the Warriors were nowhere near the bubble this time of year. In the last year with […]

Probable Starters: 1: Quentin Goodin: 6-4 194 lb FR PG: 19.0 mpg, 4.3 ppg, 1.6 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.0 spg, 0.2 bpg, 1.5 tpg, .336 FG%, .528 FT%, .323 3P% 2: JP Macura: 6-5 203 lb JR SG: 32.6 mpg, 14.4 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.5 spg, 0.2 bpg, 2.1 tpg, .421 FG%, .812 […]

For those who follow me on twitter, I was blasting Wojo during the Nova game for using the zone. I thought it was killing our offense, making us weak on the boards and the only reason we weren’t losing by 30 was because Nova couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn that night. Then […]

Following the loss to Providence a a couple weeks back, I went on an weeks long Twitter rant dismissing Wojo’s ability to draw up a good play coming after timeouts, or ATOs, as the cool kids call it.  That's what you run if you are out of timeouts and yell from the sideline. — Paint Touches […]