Paint Touches

Following Marquette’s 76-59 loss to Notre Dame, coach Buzz Williams could have opened his post-game talk to his players with a handful of topics. A stagnant offense held to 59 points on 39 percent shooting. Poor rotation on the perimeter, leading to 11 Notre Dame 3-pointers.  Getting to the free throw line just 11 times, […]

It would be easy for Chris Otule to ask, “Why me?” After all, the redshirt junior center has missed 55 games in three-plus seasons at Marquette. He missed the start of his freshman season with a broken left foot. A surgically repaired right foot ended his sophomore season just three games in. And this past […]

Sophomore Davante Gardner came to Marquette known as “Ox” because of his large frame and rough style of play inside. Following Marquette’s 74-63 win over Louisville, head coach Buzz Williams may have coined a new nickname for the budding star forward. “You throw him the ball, and it’s like a Jack-in-the-box,” Williams said. “Throw him […]

Marquette head coach Buzz Williams isn’t sure why his team is having trouble in the early portion of games. If he did, he would have told them by now. The Golden Eagles won all three games at home over the past six days to move to 4-2 in Big East play, but they didn’t do […]

After Wednesday’s 83-64 victory over St. John’s the Marquette Golden Eagles (, the two game losing streak was over, and Marquette is now .500 in conference. But that victory came on the back end of losses in three of its previous four contests and some of its worst basketball of the year. With redshirt junior […]

A roster cut shallow by injuries, a travel schedule that included stops in Madison, New York City and Baton Rouge, a final exam week which nixed practice out of the itinerary and six games have been just a few of the obstacles Buzz Williams and Marquette have dealt with over the past 19 days. Now […]