Paint Touches

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s season-opening victory over Northern Illinois. Be sure to click on the images to see them in full size. Photos by Ryan Messier.

I don’t normally write much after a cupcake. Any stats pulled out have too tiny a sample to be worth discussing. And there’s not a ton to take away from end to end blowouts. But I needed to expand on the attendance, so am using this pace for that and a few other blurbs. Record […]

There are a million blessings I’ve been given in this life, but one of the best is to have a son that loves sports more than I do. He’ll wake up and watch the YouTube recap of last night’s games. First thing he does when he gets home from school, weather permitting, is go to […]

Before every season, I like to put my money where my mouth is and project how many minutes each player will play. It’s not that I’m particularly good at it (far from it) but it’s a great way to see just how much changes from what the narrative/expectation is the 6 months of the offseason. […]

We spend 3 to 4 months leading up to the season obsessively clicking on every way-too-early ranking, parsing each useless projected March Madness bracket and otherwise binging on any morsel or blurb mentioning our favorite team. But by December, all of those hours spent angrily yelling on Twitter about perceived slights are pretty much forgotten […]

Thanks to the more than 450 of you that took time out to complete the Big East fan survey on preseason projections, we have a pretty robust dataset to parse through. Although Marquette fans once more dominated the responses, with over 54% being self-proclaimed #mubb fans, we still were able to get a great a […]