Paint Touches

Ryan Jackson breaks down South Carolina and tells you what you can expect in Marquette’s opening round tilt.

Defense good. Offense bad. Of course, if this blog were South Carolina focused, we’d say the opposite about Marquette: Offense good. Defense bad. And both are true. This is a fantastically intriguing matchup of two polar opposite teams. And these aren’t just your average differences, these are extremes. Marquette Adj O: 7th South Carolina AdjO: 149th […]

Marquette fans wanted to see progress in year 3 of the Wojo experiment. Progress is what they got.

Sometime after Marquette closed out the regular season with a convincing victory over Creighton, a new consensus started bubbling up on Twitter that Team Bubble Watch shouldn’t be counting its chickens just yet, and that another victory over Seton Hall would be necessary for lock status. It manifested itself in to these two blurbs from well-respected national […]

After a two year hiatus, Marquette is reprising its role as Team Bubble Watch and that is a wonderful thing. During the first two years of the Wojo era, all but the most hopeful of Marquette fans knew that the Warriors were nowhere near the bubble this time of year. In the last year with […]

My first post last season was arguing that Belmont was the most important game of the season. While I didn’t expect most to agree then, and can see why they wouldn’t now, I do have to say that claim held up fairly well.  Losing to Belmont wasn’t a season-ending loss by any means, it didn’t […]