Paint Touches

On Friday morning, when I started seeing the updated brackets roll in following Marquette’s loss to Villanova and saw that the consolidating consensus was that MU would not make it in, I started thinking a bit more about the NIT.  I can’t speak for everyone, but just hearing the words NIT means the season was […]

I mapped out what Marquette had to do to get a bid and we are breaking down who you need to root for on a daily basis, but there’s so many teams on this year’s bubble, that even with the guides it can get a bit challenging to keep it all together.  So with the […]

I wrote at length last week about what a snub not putting Sam Hauser on the All-Big East 2nd Team would be, and sure enough, he was nowhere to be found. Surprisingly, to me, Markus Howard did get enough votes to make the 2nd team and Andrew Rowsey made it on the Honorable mention list.  This […]

So we took a month off between updating these posts. Yea, my bad. But we got the final one in, so let’s forget about February and move along. As always, this chart and all stats come from TRank. Here is what the map looks like on the morning of 3/5/2018: Tier 1 – Villanova Villanova wasn’t able to […]

Re-live some of the best moments from Marquette’s win Bradley Center closing win over ranked Creighton. Be sure to click on the images to see them in full size. Photos by Ryan Messier.  

I resisted as long as I could, but sometimes you just got to give the people what they want. And boy do they want this. Paint Touches will be regularly updating this viewing guide to let Marquette fans know which games you need to be paying attention to, and which teams to send prayers for and […]