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A 20 Win Season: #18/19 Marquette 89, DePaul 76
Marquette's defense picked up where it left off on Saturday in South Bend. DePaul hit 7 of their first 8 shots, starting with a Charles McKinney dunk off of the opening tip and including a Jamee Crockett three pointer where Vander Blue picked up his 2nd foul of the game after just 3:48 seconds of...
Your Post-Game Jubilation Thread: #18/19 Marquette 89, DePaul 76
Well, it started out awfully familiar. Not only did DePaul start out hitting shots, but they also started out grabbing offensive rebounds at an insane rate. Marquette eventually found themselves down 12 in the first half. But they battled back, and by they, I mean Darius Johnson-Odom. DJO went on a...
Week 14 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings
I apologize for missing last week’s rankings post, but in case you missed it Marquette jumped to #15 in both polls after defeating South Florida and Villanova to extend their winning streak to 6. This week, the winning streak would reach 7 after defeating Seton Hall at the Bradley Center. ...
A Brief By-The-Numbers Look At DePaul
We've all been down this road with the DePaul Blue Demons before. We've been dealing with DePaul since 1918 and Marquette has played DePaul every single season since 1958-59. Marquette has beaten DePaul more times than any other school. As far as recent history goes, DePaul has not been any good...
Big East Big Five: Week 13
Just 34 days remain until Selection Sunday. At this point, we have a solid idea on teams that are definitely in the NCAA Tournament and teams that are definitely out. Because this is the Big East, we have a strong set of games this week that will have an impact on the conference standings going...
Your Post-Game Dejection Thread: Notre Dame 76, #15/15 Marquette 59
Notre Dame has shot 32.6% from behind the arc this season, ranking them 241st in the country. The Irish shot 11-23 behind the arc this afternoon to roll to an easy victory over your Marquette Golden Eagles. That's 47.8% for the game. Pat Connaughton was the worst offender, making 5 of his 8 three...
2.4.12 Saturday College Hoops Open Thread
Saturday means college basketball all over your cable guide, and we're here to provide space for you to discuss the events of the day! Things get started with College GameDay coming to us live from Columbia, Missouri with a feature game between #4/4 Missouri hosting #8/8 Kansas. From there we get a...
Know Your Foe: On the Notre Dame Burning Men
A couple days back, on the heels of the epically awful Michigan State-Illinois rock fight that ended in a 42-41 Illini victory, Shane Ryan wrote a post at Grantland's The Triangle blog advocating the introduction of a 24-second shot clock in college basketball. The thesis of the post, in a...
2.2.12 Big East Review
We had three Big East games last night and somehow, none of them qualify under the heading of Bizarro Big East. #14/14 Georgetown 58, Connecticut 44. The Huskies shot 30% for the game while Hollis Thompson ZZZZZZZZZZZ. Marquette's only played 4 games this season that was as slow or slower than...
No. 15 Marquette 66, Seton Hall 59
Ok, here's one for ya. Stop me if you've heard this before: So there's this basketball team, right. And they come out and start the game looking really, really awful. But then... Oh, you've heard this one already? About how the team rights the ship, comes back, wins the game and the coach...
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