Paint Touches

So we took a month off between updating these posts. Yea, my bad. But we got the final one in, so let’s forget about February and move along. As always, this chart and all stats come from TRank. Here is what the map looks like on the morning of 3/5/2018: Tier 1 – Villanova Villanova wasn’t able to […]

After Marquette’s losses to Butler and Providence in late January and early February, I officially adjusted my expectations because I believed we had enough evidence that this was an NIT team and nothing more. Marquette was a DePaul win from making me eat my Tweets, but alas, death by DePaul seems a very appropriate cause […]

The Big East has no shortage of fantastic players having outstanding seasons. Jalen Brunson, Trevon Bluiett, Mikal Bridges, Shamorie Ponds, Angel Delgado, Marcus Foster, Kelan Martin, etc… In fact, the conference has a legitimate case for getting two or three players on national All-America teams at the end of the season, with Jalen Brunson all […]

Seton Hall hasn’t lived up to preseason expectations this year, but they haven’t exactly been a pushover. With a top-50 KenPom defense and a top-35 KenPom offense, they are balanced and can pose problems to pretty much every team they play with their experienced roster. But then they play Marquette and it all falls to […]

A few weeks back, I made a joke on Twitter that Andrew Rowsey and Markus Howard play tag to see who gets to score 30 points depending on where the game was played. You’re it, my turn, back to you. Home Rowsey. Road Howard. It's like they're playing tag. I got 30, your turn. — […]

Some pretty big changes for the first time in a few weeks, as we get the last few days of January out of the way. As always, this chart and all stats come from TRank. Here is what the map looks like on the morning of 1/29/2018: Tier 1 – Villanova Nova lost Phil Booth until at […]