Paint Touches

Late Friday night word started filtering that Buzz Williams and Marquette had extended an offer to Philip Flory, a 2017 PG from Wisconsin. It’s common knowledge that players often boast of scholarship offers that aren’t fully there so I didn’t think twice about it. Then this tweet from the most knowledgeable prep basketball guru in the […]

Statline: 18 pts, 4 reb, 6 ast, 7-10 FG, 1 TO, 26 min. Quality of opponent: 7/10. If you had asked this directly after the game, the answer would have most likely been 6/10. If you had asked this during the Badgers’ conference season the answer would have been 8/10. With the benefit of hindsight, a […]

Statline: 17 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast, 7-14 FG, 2-2 3FG, 35 min Quality of opponent: 7/10. If you had asked this directly after the game, the answer would have most likely been 6/10. If you had asked this during the Badgers’ conference season the answer would have been 8/10. With the benefit of hindsight, […]

Much has been made this season about Marquette’s impressive home winning streak. The Golden Eagles have won all 13 games at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in 2012-’13, and the current 22-game winning streak is fourth best in the country, behind Syracuse (37), South Dakota State (28) and Colorado State (26). It’s an impressive feat, […]

Vander Blue won’t admit it. He’ll tell you everything you want to hear, that Saturday night’s 60-50 victory over Wisconsin was just another tally in the win column. That it was one Marquette needed to avoid falling to 5-3 early in the season. He’ll say that playing against the hometown school, the same school he […]

Relieve some of the best moments from Marquette’s 60-50 victory over Wisconsin. All photos by A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor.