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The month of February has been quite a hurdle for Marquette the past decade. But this team isn’t like any of them.

The end of the Big East season is nigh, but this week promises to be filled with intrigue. So I tried and help decipher what scenarios will put Marquette where. MU can still finish as high as 5th and as low as 6th, but there are a lot of options about who they play and […]

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s Big East loss against Creighton. 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” […]

We will touch on the emotional factor of Marquette’s victory over Creighton later today, but before we do that, we have to set a baseline for just how improbable the victory itself was. You don’t need any fancy charts to tell you what Marquette did was historic, overcoming a 5 point deficit in under a […]

The first official practices of the 18-19 college basketball season are in the books and Paint Touches is celebrating by counting down every Marquette opponent from worst to first. Each preview will contain a look at how the opponent did last season, who they lose, who they gain, reasonable expectations for their season, and our […]