Paint Touches

Marquette Madness is dead and birthed from its ashes is a new tradition that certainly has less flair but a lot more focus on basketball. The Blue vs. Gold scrimmage was short, sweet, and to the point which might disappoint some but basketball nerds (and face it if you are reading this you are one) […]

Marquette had never been better than a five-seed at the Big East Championship. It had never boasted the Big East Player of the Year. It never had two players named first team all-conference since the program entered conference play in the 1989-1990 season. But this season Marquette had it all. It was the consensus No. […]

Q: Any real positives that come out of tonight’s game or was tonight one of those games you’ve got to get rid of right away? Jae Crowder: We got a chance to build on it going into the tournament. Look at the mistakes we made and try to learn from it, so it’s a lot […]

Turnovers and offensive rebounds were the difference in No. 9 Marquette’s 84-71 loss to Louisville in the quarterfinals of the Big East Championship tournament on Thursday night. Marquette (25-7) turned the ball over 26 times and allowed the Cardinals (24-9) to grab 26 offensive rebounds in the loss. Both numbers were a season high in […]

It’s a little known fact that Marquette likes to get out and run. Most people view Marquette as a a half-court, methodical team. Kidding. Marquette doesn’t like to play in the half-court. Nor does it like to play methodically. And combating a zone takes place in the half-court and forces an offense to play methodical. […]

Buzz Williams met with the media Friday afternoon and talked about the Georgetown game and what Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom have meant to him and the program.