Tag Archives: Buzz Williams

Greska: Embrace the Hype

As the confetti was still hovering over the Huskies, outlets across the country were racing to publish their first rankings for the 2024 season. And a funny thing happened, the consensus settled on Marquette being the team to beat next year. The fine folks at Field of 68 were able to round up 12 of […]

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Listen: Recalling the 2012 Season

The nice guys at The College Basketball Stories had me on their podcast to talk Marquette, particularly the 2012 season, with the caveat that I had to be slightly, nay moderately, intoxicated. If you’ve ever wanted to hear me drunkenly rant about Buzz Williams, have I got the podcast for you. Here’s the link to […]

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How will the new tax laws impact Marquette? Part 1

  (Editor’s note: As we at Paint Touches are nowhere near smart enough to interpret tax bylaws, we went out and recruited input from an actual expert, AJ Singh, to help us shed light on the topic.)  The new tax bill, known as Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was signed into law on Dec. 20, […]

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Buzz Williams Has 2.3 Million Reasons Why He Doesn’t Care About Your Money: A Revisionist History

It’s the year 2017 and national outlets are still trying to justify Buzz’ move to Virginia Tech.

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Strotman: Saying goodbye to Paint Touches

A little more than three years ago I walked down to the basement of Johnston Hall and proposed an idea to one my fellow reporters at the Marquette Tribune, Andrei Greska: Launch a website where the student reporters covering the men’s basketball team could write additional stories as a complement to the articles we published in the […]

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Travis Diener bridging Marquette past to present

You could find just about any type of person imaginable in New York City during Super Bowl weekend in the first weekend in February of this year. What with this country’s biggest sporting event merging with its biggest city, there was no shortage of questionable, charismatic or downright crazy characters. But walking those busy streets was […]

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