Paint Touches

Buzz Williams won’t admit his team’s good. Not even after 21 wins, 12 in the Big East and 25 straight at home. So good luck getting him to admit the truth about himself: he’s one hell of a basketball coach. Following Marquette’s 72-64 win over No. 21 Notre Dame–a win that moved the Golden Eagles […]

Junior Cadougan: Don’t let the 12 points on 5-of-10 shooting fool you. This was one of the senior point guard’s worst performances of the year. Cadougan (five turnovers) couldn’t get into any sort of rhythm and, in rare form, was poor in transition. He should bounce back, but the box score doesn’t tell the story […]

You don’t need advanced statistics to know Marquette is a bad 3-point shooting team. You don’t need KenPom to tell you very few of Marquette’s points come from beyond the arc. You definitely don’t need a Synergy account to realize every opposing coach is going to throw some type of zone at the Golden Eagles, […]

In the closing minutes of Marquette’s 79-69 win over No. 16 Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon, Jamil Wilson grabbed a long rebound off a Tray Woodall missed 3-pointer and found himself all alone, streaking down the right sideline. Wilson finished off the possession — and the Panthers — with an emphatic two-handed slam, putting the finishing […]

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s 79-69 victory over Pitt at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. All photos by A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor.

When Darius Johnson-Odom and Jae Crowder left Marquette last spring, it left a void both in the leadership and scoring departments. For the first time in Buzz Williams’ tenure, there was no returning player with the accolades and experience to fill said void without a hitch. It was an unknown. Through 23 games Vander Blue […]