Paint Touches

It’s here. 126 days after Marquette tipped off its season against Colgate, the day of reckoning has come. Selection Sunday is but a few hours away, with the potential fate of the Golden Eagles in the selection committee’s hands. The games are played, the stats kept, all there is to find out now is who […]

The Big East Tournament is upon us at last! The final year of this version’s Big East should be a memorable one, as three teams tied for first and three more teams were within three games of the top spot. Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week […]

It had to be Vander Blue. It was the only fitting that he, the player everyone thought was no good his first two seasons, playing for a team his own coach said was “not any good” this season, hit the game-winner as time expired to beat St. John’s to give Marquette a share of the […]

With the Big East regular season in the books, awards will be handed out this week for conference honors. It’s important to remember that these awards are voted on, so there is sure to be debate on some of the winners. Anyway, we decided to take our best stab at it, and this is what […]

With the official announcement of the new Big East reportedly coming today, the question that will most be asked is: how good will it actually be? I went into this a bit last week as a response to a columnist falsely claiming the gap between the new Big East and the leftovers it was leaving […]

Vander Blue had been quiet the last three games, and Buzz Williams deflected criticism from his junior shooting guard by saying the flow of the game didn’t call for the Golden Eagles’ leading scorer to put up points. Whether that was the case, Blue was called upon Tuesday night in New Jersey and came up […]