Paint Touches

It wasn’t easy, and it was almost never pretty, but Marquette battled its way to a 69-62 win over lowly Seton Hall Wednesday night to improve to 4-0 in Big East play. The Pirates had only eight healthy players but managed to hang around with a Golden Eagle team that was coming off a thrilling […]

Junior Cadougan (2 pts, 2 ast, 3 reb) Junior was playing very well prior to his ankle injury, but was forced to sit out all of the second half and overtime. Now it becomes a waiting game to see the severity of the injury. NA Vander Blue (22 pts, 4 ast, 3 reb) Vander has […]

Sometimes box scores can’t tell the whole story. Advanced statistics can be a more indicative measure of a team’s successes and failures than simply per-game numbers. Ken Pomeroy’s website (KenPom.com) looks at these statistics and ranks them both individually and as a team. Pomeroy currently predicts Marquette (11-3, 2-0) will finish 17-13, while going 8-10 in […]

Junior Cadougan’s second half heroics went to another level Tuesday night. The senior point guard drained a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to send the game to overtime, and Marquette got clutch baskets in an 82-76 overtime win over Connecticut in the teams’ Big East opener. It was the first 3-pointer of the game for Marquette, which had […]

Marquette completed its non-conference schedule Saturday with a 75-66 win over North Carolina Central, moving the Golden Eagles to 9-3. With the Big East season around 48 hours away, it’s time to look back on the first two months of the season and see, in no particular order, which general preseason thoughts were confirmed, which […]

Marquette proved Saturday afternoon it may not be over its early season inconsistencies, but did show that it is more than capable of overcoming them as non-conference play winds down and the Big East season awaits. The good numbers were seen easily in the box score: 84 points, including 32 in the paint, in 73 […]