Paint Touches

As the dawn of a new season nears, my anticipation for college basketball is reaching insatiable levels. I’ve read more team blogs the last month than I have the last five years. The Big East can’t get here soon enough. In the midst of quenching my basketball thirst on basketball-reference, the bible for hoops junkies, […]

Late Friday night word started filtering that Buzz Williams and Marquette had extended an offer to Philip Flory, a 2017 PG from Wisconsin. It’s common knowledge that players often boast of scholarship offers that aren’t fully there so I didn’t think twice about it. Then this tweet from the most knowledgeable prep basketball guru in the […]

One thing that makes sports so special is the natural rivalries that form between teams, yet there’s no exact science to forming them. You’d think Marquette and DePaul would be bitter enemies being only 90 miles apart and having played 120 times, but that’s not really the case. Whether it’s the Blue Demon’s ineptitude on […]

As a high school sophomore Derrick Wilson was a dual-sport athlete, being recruited by Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Stanford to play running back. At the same time, the 6-foot, 205-pound bulldozer was making a name for himself on the hardwood, drawing high-major interest while running the point for The Hotchkiss School (Conn.). And when […]

No coach in the country is harder and more brutally honest on his team than Buzz Williams, and one of his favorite lines goes something to the tune of, “When we do what we’re supposed to do, we’re pretty good; when we don’t do what we’re supposed to do, we really struggle.” Last season Marquette’s […]

The NCAA released its official attendance figures for the 2012-13 season and Marquette has slipped back in the national rankings for the third consecutive year finishing 15th in the country with an average of 15,033 fans per game at the Bradley Center. Marquette had finished the 2012 season averaging just over a hundred more fans […]