Paint Touches

For the past four years, Paint Touches has been counting down the top 50 players in the Big East. It started as my personal opinion and over time it grew to the point of having representatives from each of our Big East bloggin’ brethren contribute to the rankings for a truly neutral picture of the […]

This is a Marquette focused blog, so I usually keep most posts MU-centric. But it never hurts to take a broader look at the landscape going into a season, to better gauge individual results as the season starts up. So I rounded up 30 full Big East projections, from reputable national sites to lay some […]

With the shock of the new Jordan jersey drop finally wearing off, we wanted to speak with Marquette Assistant Coach Jake Presutti about the process behind creating a new design. Presutti has been on staff since Steve Wojciechowski arrived in 2014 and has been the liaison between the program and Jordan. So when it came […]

With each passing day, we’re that much closer to seeing real live college basketball, something I was not positive would be the case in 2020. As with anything in life post COVID, anything can change in the blink of an eye, so we’re not counting our chickens just yet. In order to help get a […]

Earlier this week, Journal Sentinel Marquette beat writer Ben Steele noted on seeing a player use Dawson Garcia in their official offer announcement on Twitter, a pretty odd sighting as most players use established greats like Dwyane Wade or Markus Howard. Think Dawson Garcia might be the first #mubb player to appear in somebody's offer […]

Despite the uncertainty and altered timeline around the 2020 NBA draft, there will be a draft at some point. And with Markus Howard hoping to hear his name on draft night, we wanted to talk to The Athletic’s NBA Draft guru Sam Vecenie to get an expert’s take on all things Howard. And boy did […]