Paint Touches

By Mark Strotman Marquette is known perennially as one of the nation’s best-conditioned teams, and it’s not by chance. Head strength and conditioning coach Todd Smith is in his sixth year with the Golden Eagles and is the brains — and certainly brawn — behind the Golden Eagles’ mentality to out-run and out-tough opponents. Smith previously […]

On Oct. 14 coach Buzz Williams knew three of his five starters for tonight’s season opener against the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers: senior guard Darius Johnson-Odom, senior forward Jae Crowder, and redshirt junior center Chris Otule. On Wednesday he added another name to that list. Vander Blue. “He’s playing under control, understanding what he can […]

By Mark Strotman While the Marquette basketball team is just under four days from tipping off its 2011-2012 season, it’s never too early to speculate about the distant future. Since coach Buzz Williams took over at Marquette, Wesley Matthews, Lazar Hayward and Jimmy Butler have all joined NBA rosters, with Hayward and Butler being selected […]

By Mark Strotman With redshirt junior Chris Otule joining today, all 12 Marquette players are now officially on Twitter. The Golden Eagles use the social media website for numerous reasons, but forwards Davante Gardner and Jamail Jones said keeping in touch with friends and family back home is the main reason they tweet. “I’m so […]

By Mark Strotman Jamail Jones will enter the 2011-2012 season with a new mindset and work ethic as he looks to build on a freshman season he called a learning experience. He’ll also have a brand new haircut to go with it. The idea for the new cut this summer came about while Jones was […]

We had some technical difficulties with the tripod last night, so our range was very limited. Sorry about that. it was also very tough to keep stats, live blog, analyze and tweet all at once, hence the limited amount of footage. We only were able to film one side of the action. However, here is […]