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Losing a giftwrapped game takes a lot of work. Here’s the 10 plays that did the heavy lifting.

Jayce Johnson has proven to be even better than his rebounding stats would suggest.

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s Big East win over St. John’s. Be sure to click on the images to see them in full size. Photos by Ryan Messier.

As the calendar turned to 2020 on Dec. 31st and Marquette prepared to launch its Big East campaign in Omaha, MU boasted a good to very good defense, rated as the 40th best in the country with a 91.1 Adjusted Defensive rating on KenPom. Just 3 weeks later, the AdjD rating has tumbled 3 full […]

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s first Big East win this season over Villanova. Be sure to click on the images to see them in full size. Photos by Ryan Messier.

There are about 37 negative ways to analyze Marquette’s drubbing at Creighton, but the thing that stuck with me well into the morning was Theo John’s 8 minutes. After all, it was Creighton’s coach Greg McDermott himself who was caught in a huddle last season instructing his players not to take it into that “monster” […]