Paint Touches

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 […]

We have seen enough. Steve Wojciechowski is not fit to lead Marquette.

With a little over 14 minutes to go in Sunday’s game against Butler, Markus Howard, fresh off missing a tough stepback 3, drove a congested lane and forced up a tough shot that was blocked out of bounds. This is a fairly common occurance, and doesn’t usually merit striping down and posting online, but this […]

Marquette basically had 2 choices: extend Wojo and alienate a fed up fanbase, or fire Wojo and start from scratch.

(Editor’s note: Marquette declined to make Steve Wojciechowski available for an interview.) The biggest story from last night’s season-ending defeat came via the acknowledgement from Marquette that Sam Hauser would require surgery to repair a hip injury that had been bothering him since before the start of the season, and that the recovery would take […]

At one point during the first half of Iowa’s dismemberment of Marquette, my wife came back from putting our daughter to bed and saw the Hawkeye lead had ballooned to 23. Seeing the distraught look on my face, she turned to me and said “It’s still not as bad as that Vanderbilt game.” Phrases like these […]