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No. 10 Marquette stays unbeaten by thumping Western Carolina

Kam Jones scored 20 points and dished 10 assists to lead the No. 10 Marquette Golden Eagles to a 94-62 victory over the visiting Western Carolina Catamounts on Saturday afternoon in Milwaukee.,Jones added six rebounds for Marquette (8-0), which is off to its best start since winning 10 straight to b...

No. 10 Marquette remains undefeated with convincing win over Western Carolina

Kam Jones scored 20 points and dished with 10 assists to lead the No. 10 Marquette Golden Eagles to a 94-62 victory over the visiting Western Carolina on Saturday afternoon in Milwaukee.,Jones added six rebounds for Marquette (8-0), which is off to its best start since winning 10 straight to begin t...

David Joplin, No. 15 Marquette too strong for Georgia

David Joplin made six 3-pointers to highlight his career-high 29-point performance, lifting No. 15 Marquette to an 80-69 win over Georgia on Saturday in Nassau, Bahamas.,Chase Ross and Ben Gold chipped in 14 points apiece and Kam Jones added 10 points and seven assists for Marquette (6-0).,Blue Cain...

David Joplin, No. 18 Marquette aim to jolt Central Michigan

No. 18 Marquette's second win of the season was a much closer affair than the 82-63 final score would suggest.,The Golden Eagles were pleased with how they put Friday's game to bed and will try to bring a similar composure into Monday's contest against visiting Central Michigan in Milwaukee.,In a ga...

No. 18 Marquette set for cozy evening with George Mason

It will be a rowdy setting Friday when No. 18 Marquette hosts George Mason in a nonconference matchup inside the program's 4,000-seat on-campus arena at Milwaukee, with tickets only available to students.,Marquette (1-0) took down Stony Brook 102-62 on Monday night in a game held at the 17,341-capac...

Ja Morant Is For Real

When a great player’s hype is dependent on masochists who regularly subject themselves to Ohio Valley Conference basketball, it’s not often that they actually shine on the national stage that March Madness provides. But Ja Morant showed up against fifth-seeded Marquette ready to make a splash with v...

Murray State Vs. Marquette Should Be Sick As Hell

Thank goodness Murray State made it into the NCAA Tournament, because before last Saturday it seemed worryingly possible that Ja Morant and his Racers might be hanging out in the NIT this postseason. But after finishing as OVC regular-season co-champions with Belmont and then winning their conferenc...

Just Try To Stop Markus Howard

The most remarkable aspect of 2019’s most remarkable college basketball player is his age: Markus Howard just turned 20 years old. The Marquette junior guard is one of the youngest players in his class, yet the 5-foot-11 Howard has spent this revelatory season torching all comers....

Save Yourself The Embarrassment And Stop Guarding Markus Howard

It was a miracle of a shot from Marquette’s Sam Hauser that sent the 21st-ranked Golden Eagles’ game against Creighton into overtime on Wednesday night. But it was the guy who inbounded and assisted on that dramatic buzzer-beater who utterly dominated the proceedings, and who did the most to get Mar...

Marquette's Markus Howard Will Shoot Over Anyone, From Anywhere

Marquette’s 70-52 win over Xavier on Sunday wasn’t especially exciting, since the Golden Eagles never trailed and spent most of the second half up by double digits. But if there was a moment when a struggling Xavier team looked to have a glimmer of hope, it was with about eight minutes to go in the ...

The NCAA Tournament Teams That Can Actually Pull Off Some Upsets

This is the second of three posts that will preview the NCAA tournament. This one is for people who want to know which sleeper teams have the best shot at making some noise. ...

Top-Ranked Villanova Goes Down After Furious Marquette Rally

The #1 and #2 teams in college basketball both went on the road tonight and they both lost. Second-ranked Kansas headed to Morgantown and lost by 16 to West Virginia, while top-ranked Villanova blew a big lead to Marquette and lost after they couldn’t score on the final possession. An errant dunk or...

Marquette has hired Steve Wojciechowski as its new men's head basketball coach, a man who is definitely not Shaka Smart....

Shaka Smart-To-Marquette Reports Came From Student Journalist

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel now tells us Shaka Smart is not likely to take the head basketball coaching position at Marquette. Why, then, were TV stations in Milwaukee all breathlessly reporting the breaking news that he'd be the new leader of the Golden Eagles? A source inside one of those newsr...

Shaka Smart Not Actually Marquette's New Coach, Despite TV Reports

Here's a sampling of Milwaukee newscasts from this evening. They all assert that current VCU head basketball coach Shaka Smart is taking over for Buzz Williams at Marquette. One problem: that's not true. ...

Former Marquette Basketball Player Now Has A Balloon Gift Box Business

Dominic James had a nice four-year career for Marquette's men's basketball team from 2005-2009, playing overseas for a bit after graduating. But these days, he's running a balloon business with his wife. It's quite the career change....

Marquette's Deonte Burton Ruined Someone With A Dunk

Deonte Burton—of Marquette, not Nevada—absolutely wrecked Samford's Emeka Ikezu on this slam from yesterday's game. Watching it from the floor is delightful....

Alleged Drunk Driver Seriously Injures Voice Of Marquette Basketball [Updated]

Steve "The Homer" True, a Milwaukee sports-talk personality and the longtime radio voice of Marquette basketball, sustained a serious head injury yesterday morning when the car he was driving was struck by an alleged drunk driver. As of last night, according to TV station WISN, True was listed in cr...

Marquette Lacrosse Player Accused Of Dropping Acid, Punching Cop

Rough Saturday for Charley Gargano, sophomore lacrosse player at Marquette. He may not have the typical laxbro name (too ethnic), but he's got the hair and the arrest record....

Your Marquette-Syracuse Open Thread [UPDATE: Now it's a Wichita State-Ohio State Open Thread]

If you're watching at home, feel free to participate however you want—we put a big yelling Baye Keita Cleanthony Early picture up there in case you'd rather annotate something, or just yak about whatever in the discussion—and enjoy this last and pleasantly coincidental gasp of the Big East as we kn...