Paint Touches

Alright, hyenas. As we did last year around this time — 364 days ago, to be exact — Paint Touches has the inside scoop on where Marquette is looking to fill its recruiting class for next season. A couple of high-profile shooting guards have been listed with Marquette recently in high-school senior Ahmed Hill and […]

For six seasons Marquette coach Buzz Williams has made himself an analogy aficionado, and perhaps the one he has spoken most passionately about occurred at last year’s media day. When asked how Williams was going to replace Big East Player of the Year Jae Crowder and the conference’s second-leading scorer, Darius Johnson-Odom, the one-of-a-kind storyteller went […]

With the final live July recruiting period having just begun, the Marquette coaching staff is again out and about on the recruiting trail, offering scholarships to potential commits who could shape the future of Marquette basketball. Today we’ll look at how Buzz Williams is playing the recruiting game perfectly when it comes to big men. […]

When then-high school sophomore Malek Harris took the 90-minute drive from Orland Park, Ill., to Milwaukee in June 2012, his expectations weren’t all that high. Marquette had begun to show interest one month after assistant Isaac Chew and his Chicago ties were hired to Buzz Williams’ staff. But by Harris’ own admission — “I was […]

The past two seasons Buzz Williams has been given the task of replacing All-Big East guards Darius Johnson-Odom and Vander Blue, and he accomplished that feat in his 2013 class. Five-star shooting guard Jajuan Johnson and combo guard Duane Wilson–both incoming freshmen–will log significant minutes next season and beyond, and junior Todd Mayo has performed […]