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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 […]

Andy Katz posted his list of the 16 names you’ll be hearing about in March, and included Markus Howard, a returning All-American 2nd teamer, at No. 10. But while the list itself is of very little value, Katz had already named Markus as the 2nd best player in NCAA basketball for next season, one line […]

The Big East came one minute (and one Hoya collpase) away from being 18-0 through the first six days of the season, an umblemished mark that would have included home and away wins against ranked opponents. Even with that choke job, the BEast is sitting pretty at 17-1, with the reigning national champ and 7 […]

(Editor’s Note: In lieu of all of the questions in regards to Marquette’s non-conference schedule, (which I have criticized in two posts the past few weeks) Paint Touches got in contact with Deputy Athletic Director Mike Broeker. One of his key responsibilities is overseeing the schedule building process for the men’s basketball team, so we […]

It’s relatively easy to project the likelihood of being drafted with a season full of video and box scores to go off of. Predicting who NBA team will target in 2016 mere days after the 2015 draft took place, now that’s a challenge.  A popular challenge, at that. 2016 NBA mock drafts have been popping up left […]