Paint Touches

For the next five weeks, Paint Touches will ask five burning questions leading up to Marquette Madness. This week asks which teams will finish in the top five in the Big East in 2012-13. Week 1: Marquette’s leading scorer? Week 2: Todd Mayo or Vander Blue? Mark Strotman: West Virginia is gone, but 2012-2013 will mark […]

For the next five weeks, Paint Touches will ask five burning questions leading up to Marquette Madness. This week asks whether Todd Mayo or Vander Blue is more valuable to the Golden Eagles. Week 1: Marquette’s leading scorer? Mark Strotman: It’s almost a certainty that seniors Junior Cadougan and Trent Lockett will play significant minutes […]

When Isaac Chew accepted a position to join Buzz Williams’ staff at Marquette in May, it marked yet another difficult decision in his coaching career that began unexpectedly more than a decade ago in Kansas City. Because six weeks before Chew, then an assistant at Missouri, said yes to Williams, he told John Groce and […]

For the next five weeks, Paint Touches will ask five burning questions leading up to Marquette Madness. This week asks who will lead Marquette in scoring. Mark Strotman: Perhaps the most intriguing question this year for Marquette is who will lead the team in scoring. Paint Touches has well documented that departed seniors Jae Crowder […]

*This is part one of a two-part story on assistant coach Isaac Chew. Part one focuses on Chew’s recruiting, while part two will look at Chew’s path that led him to Marquette. When Tony Benford accepted the head coaching position at North Texas on Apr. 24, it left Marquette in a bind for more reasons […]

This is the first match-up of a 16-game bracket looking at the best Marquette game of the last decade. The complete bracket is at the bottom of each match-up. Vote early and share it. The more votes, the better. 2. 1/3/06 UConn (Big East Opener) vs. 15. 1/6/10 Georgetown (Cubillan 6-6) The Case for UConn […]