Paint Touches

There are about 37 negative ways to analyze Marquette’s drubbing at Creighton, but the thing that stuck with me well into the morning was Theo John’s 8 minutes. After all, it was Creighton’s coach Greg McDermott himself who was caught in a huddle last season instructing his players not to take it into that “monster” […]

The non-conference part is in the books (for the most part) and a red-hot Big East conference is set to start tonight, so it makes sense to touch base once more and set the scene for what promises to be a wild conference season. There wasn’t a ton of action since our last update 2 […]

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s blowout win over Central Arkansas. Be sure to click on the images to see them in full size. Photos by Ryan Messier.

It’s that time of the year again. No not that one. Weekly Big East tiers are officially back! Almost every team (but Marquette) has played double digit games, and though 10 or so games isn’t a big sample, per se, when it constitutes 33% of your total output, it’s large enough to start writing about. By […]

With 3 kids under 6, seeing a 9 PM (ET) tip time for Marquette any given day gives me a quick jolt of life. Not only will I be able to watch the game on the big TV, I’ll get to watch it uninterrupted without bedtime duties or any other of the 3,000 distractions the […]

Coming into the season, expectations for Koby McEwen were higher than they probably should have been (and I said as much back in October), but a fantastic showing against Purdue proved right away what kind of lift the Utah State transfer could provide. I've watched Koby put the defender on skates with that shoulder fake […]