Sometimes 20 minutes of hell is enough. After trailing Seton Hall by three points at halftime, Marquette ripped off a 25-7 run in the first eight minutes of the second half to seize control of the game. Fueled by a spate of Seton Hall turnovers, MU extended the lead to 23 points with five minutes re...

Marquette did what it had to do tonight and not much else in defeating the DePaul Blue Demons, 76-61. With the win Marquette extended its win streak to 12 games and moved to 20-2 overall and 9-0 in the BIG EAST. Jerel McNeal led MU with a Wadesque line of 26 points, six assists, four rebounds, five ...

Marquette made Al McGuire proud tonight. On the eighth anniversary of his passing, Al's Marquette Warriors stormed the Joyce Center tonight and topped the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish 71-64. All of the Warriors' points were scored by the Fab Four, led by Jerel McNeal's season-high 27 points. Dominic Ja...

Kind of a crazy game on Saturday. Very good win for the team, especially when it looked for a long stretch that it just wasn't Marquette's night. First of all, it's that pesky problem of being bad defensively on the road that pops up again. This was a problem all last year, and we're continuing to t...

Hey folks... we've got some interesting stuff coming this week from John Pudner again. However, before we get to that, I just wanted to recap the numbers associated with the West Virginia game. What should immediately stand out is the defensive efficiency. Marquette's offensive efficiency was about ...

plus a brief look at Rutgers... Not ten days ago, life was filled with "doom and gloom", as I anticipated a most likely view for Marquette to finish 9-9. However, fresh off the team's first ever 3-0 start to the Big East, Marquette would need to only finish 6-9 in order to end up 9-9. Therefore, wit...

If nothing else, the start of the Big East season has been memorable for Marquette, with three lopsided games. In 2006 it was Steve Novak's heroics that stunned UConn in MU's first Big East game ever. In 2007, injuries to Jerel McNeal and Wes Matthews took their toll as MU was blown out by Providenc...

My update will be limited as I missed most of the game traveling today. I was able to catch the last 16 minutes of the second half in the freezing cold outside while viewing the broadcast online via a wireless connection (not sure who's connection I borrowed in the neighborhood, but it was open and ...

Before digging into the numbers, I want to add some of my own comments and build on the great original recap by Tim. Personally, I'm really not all that surprised by the fact that we lost at Tennessee. We were an underdog going into the matchup and it went kind of as expected. Sure, it was disappoin...

Or... do traditional rebound figures tell the whole story? Numbers Recap Here is the breakdown for efficiency and the Four Factors against IPFW. In the IPFW preview that we did, I said that my prediction was for a 95% chance of Marquette victory, with the offense a little stagnant and the defense be...