Paint Touches

Shaka has repeatedly noted he’s building Marquette off of retention and growth. The results to date have defied what was thought possible.

If you’ve wondered why Marquette’s projections are almost universally near the bottom of the Big East, take a peep.

It’s fairly early to make any assessment of Shaka’s 1st 3 recruiting classes, but one thing is crystal clear.

Following a thorough late night victory over Villanova on Feb 2, the 2nd win over the Big East’s standard bearer in 2 weeks, Marquette was sitting at 16-7, 8-4 in Big East play and dreaming of just high the ceiling for this team could be. It wasn’t just that it beat Nova twice, it was […]

While I believe there’s nothing as engrossing as the written word, I do have to admit limitations to what reading someone else’s interpretation of an event can evoke compared to the event itself. So when I kept reading about Tyler Kolek’s dustup with Shaka Smart in the first half of Marquette’s victory over Villanova, I […]

On January 23, 2021, Marquette basketball broke me. I wasn’t exactly a Wojo hypeman and had partaken in many a private conversation about his coaching acumen and Marquette’s future under his guidance, but I was probably one of the last to board that particular bus. However, losing at home to DePaul, AGAIN(!), in a particularly […]