Paint Touches

Fast break and ball movement key to Marquette’s night in the paint

January 12, 2012 | Mark Strotman | 1 Comment

Buzz Williams’ new terminology, paint touches, has taken a life of its own. While it certainly is not a new philosophy for basketball coaches, wanting teams to get the ball into the painted area of the court for high percentage shots and to suck defenses in, Williams has insisted that, night in and night out, […]

St. John’s postgame transcripts

January 12, 2012 | Michael LoCicero | 0 Comments

Mike Dunlap, St. John’s interim head coach Opening statement “Talking about the first half and check off a number of boxes in a positive way and in the second half, they (Marquette) were grittier, they came after us and we didn’t do very well with that. A lot of our turnovers led to easy baskets, […]

St. John’s Preview: Harkless, Harrison are workhorses for undermanned Red Storm

January 10, 2012 | Mark Strotman | 0 Comments

Marquette returns home to take on the St. John’s Red Storm after a winless two-game road trip out east last week. Losses at Georgetown and Syracuse dropped the Golden Eagles to 1-2 in conference play but have looked better since losing Chris Otule to a knee injury on Dec. 3. If there’s a team in […]