Paint Touches

If you have a Twitter, like well made informative charts, and don’t follow @jgtrends on Twitter, you’re really missing out on some of the most insightful advanced metrics in college basketball as a whole. Yesterday in particular, he put out this chart of the points each shot has been worth to top-25 teams this year, […]

Nowhere, chillax. When I saw this Tweet, my jaw hit the floor, but, unlike most things Markus Howard, in a bad way. Top40 Isolation Usage and Efficiency. @Big12Conference watch out for @BaylorMBB taking you off the bounce this season. @ButlerMBB with amazing efficiency. @MarquetteMBB interesting situation with M.Howard using 64% of Marq Iso plays but […]

Markus can score just about any way, but his efficiency isn’t equal across the board.

I am as big a fan of Kirk Goldsberry’s shot chart visualizations as about anything else on the internet. So when he put this out last night, I knew I had to try and recreate it. It’s nowhere near as aesthetically pleasing, but I think conveys quite a bit of info in one image. I […]

Marquette’s defense has struggled all year, but the deficiencies are even worse in clutch situations.

We apologize for these player reviews being so late into the offseason — Marquette played its last game nearly two months ago — but that pesky thing called the real world got in the way. That, and the coaching chance made us put these bad boys on the back burner. We’ll try and give you […]