Paint Touches

Marquette produced much more of a complete effort on offense Saturday afternoon, rebounding from a brutal loss at Green Bay on Wednesday with a 84-80 win over LSU. Davante Gardner led the team with 19 points and the Golden Eagles shot 49.1 percent from the field. Marquette (8-3) made its first three shots and seven […]

So that was just about as bad as it gets, right? Marquette’s hideous 49-47 loss to Green Bay last night signified just how far this team has to go to become an NCAA Tournament team by the end of the year. Except for a stretch over the final 4:46 in the first half, when the […]

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s 71-51 victory over Savannah State at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. All photos by A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor.

It took Derrick Wilson all of seven games into his freshman season to earn him the label of defensive stopper. The box score didn’t tell the story — he grabbed two rebounds and committed three fouls in 20 minutes, and nothing else — but his determined defense on preseason All-American Jordan Taylor was perhaps one […]

Marquette topped Wisconsin  60-50 Saturday night to win its second consecutive in-state rivalry game and move to 6-2 on the season. It was quite a different performance for a team just 10 days after a beatdown in Gainesville, and the player grades reflect it: Juan Anderson (0 pts, 4 reb, 4 fls, 1 blk, 1 […]

A year ago Junior Cadougan sat on the Kohl Center sidelines, suspended for a violation of team rules as his Marquette team picked up a road win over in-state rival Wisconsin. Saturday night at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, Cadougan made sure his presence was felt. The senior point guard scored seven straight Marquette points […]