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Earlier we broke down where Marquette’s frontcourt can improve this summer (check that out here) and now we’re breaking down where the guards can do the same. This is a far-less experienced group, meaning they have more room to grow in an all-important offseason. Take a look: Juan Anderson: The Golden Eagles switchable is transitioning from […]

For the last two seasons Paint Touches has brought you advanced statistics, breakdown of numbers and Synergy analysis. But upon reading the report Wired.com released in late April of last year–NBC’s College Basketball Talk posted it Saturday morning–on “the 13 new basketball positions,” it seems there is a whole new kind of analytics that needs […]

Perhaps the only thing more interesting than Juan Anderson deciding to return to Marquette one month after requesting his release was the news that he will make the transition to the backcourt for his junior season. Wisconsin Basketball Yearbook’s Mark Miller first reported the news, and it came, more or less, as a shock. After […]

A little more than a month after being granted his release, junior forward Juan Anderson has decided to return to the Golden Eagles, the team announced early Monday morning. A source close to the situation revealed to Paint Touches earlier this month that teams from the Pac-12 and Missouri Valley Conference had inquired on Anderson, […]

When I asked Buzz Williams two months ago why Chris Otule had made such a noticeable improvement in his fifth season, the answer was simple: a player who, until last season, had spent more time on the trainer’s table than at the scorer’s table, was finally seeing consistent practice time. At last the majority of […]

You don’t need to remind Jameel McKay that the No. 32 has an almost-sacred aura surrounding it in the Marquette basketball community. Don’t bother telling him that two of Marquette’s all-time greats have worn the same jersey six of the last seven seasons, winning dozens of games and earning All-Big East and All-American accolades in […]