Paint Touches

The best move coach Brad Autry made all night was one he didn’t make. With Marquette trailing 69-66 with 5.9 seconds to play, Autry, filling in for the suspended Buzz Williams, opted not to call a timeout and draw up a potential game-tying play, instead allowing his players to stay in rhythm and play on. […]

Junior Cadougan’s second half heroics went to another level Tuesday night. The senior point guard drained a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to send the game to overtime, and Marquette got clutch baskets in an 82-76 overtime win over Connecticut in the teams’ Big East opener. It was the first 3-pointer of the game for Marquette, which had […]

Marquette completed its non-conference schedule Saturday with a 75-66 win over North Carolina Central, moving the Golden Eagles to 9-3. With the Big East season around 48 hours away, it’s time to look back on the first two months of the season and see, in no particular order, which general preseason thoughts were confirmed, which […]

By Marco Radenkovich Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. That was the story Saturday afternoon at the Bradley Center as Marquette (9-3) hung on for a 75-66 win over North Carolina Central (6-7). Marquette committed 20 turnovers, leading to 25 NC Central points. The turnovers ranged from steals to dropped passes to out of bounds violations. The Golden […]

Trent Lockett arrived in Milwaukee as the assumed top scorer at Marquette, a team with question marks on offense after the departures of Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom, expectations were high. He wasn’t going to replicate either of the two seniors’ numbers, but as a proven scorer was expected to fill up the box score […]

When Todd Mayo jogged over to the scorer’s table following a Jamil Wilson foul that created an official’s timeout at the under-16 mark, hardly anyone noticed. Coming out of the timeout, Mayo’s appearance on the Al McGuire Court for the first time in almost nine months came as a shock. Many thought Mayo would play […]