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The basketball season kicked off on Friday with the annual Marquette Madness festivities. Paint Touches’ photographer Anthony Giacomino was there to catch some of the best moments, as shown below. Be sure to click on the individual images to enlarge them.

Finally found the time to rewatch the four Italy games and keep a box score for each. I am not a professional scorekeeper, so there may be a few discrepancies here and there. One issue was the approximately three minutes and thirty seconds of game time against LSU Atletas that was lost due to bad […]

As I wrote last week, I’m not about to make grand declarations from four semi-competitive games in August. Yes, Marquette went 4-0 and generally looked impressive, but the quality of competition isn’t high to begin with, and those teams were in preseason form as well. It was 1,000 times better than Pro-Am scrimmages, but still […]

#mubb @SwaggyDu1 & @HENBA13 combined for 52 points in last night's win over Haukar. pic.twitter.com/jGwrfWoSEg — Marquette Basketball (@MarquetteMBB) August 13, 2015 Marquette kicked off its 2015 foreign tour with a hard fought 89-82 victor over Haukar. Paint Touches has assembled some quick reactions to the Golden Eagles’ “season opener.” • Duane Wilson is the […]

It’s relatively easy to project the likelihood of being drafted with a season full of video and box scores to go off of. Predicting who NBA team will target in 2016 mere days after the 2015 draft took place, now that’s a challenge.  A popular challenge, at that. 2016 NBA mock drafts have been popping up left […]

10. Wojo’s first win Steve Wojciechowski’s first season as a head coach had some deep valleys, but the emotional response to his first victory from Juan Anderson and the rest of the squad highlight what kind of connection he was able to forge with players he did not recruit. 9. Creighton buzzer-beater Marquette choked up […]