'It's starting to look like Marquette will never lose again, ever.' - CBS Sportline With football culminating with the Steelers championship yesterday, the next big championship will be the NCAA basketball championship April 6 in Detroit. It is possible that the tallest team in the NCAA, No. 1 ranke...

Greatest 4-year stretch of beating ranked teams in MU history - John Pudner The Three Amigos will go to South Bend this Monday to try to set an unofficial MU record with their 13th regular season win against a ranked opponent during a 4-year tenure – and it will only be January 26! With three wins...

PUDNER WEEK: Cracked Sidewalks has gone all-Pudner, all the time. Here's his third column of three. At this pace, where will four stars rank among the best MU players of all time? - John Pudner This is the final of three columns on where MUs current four stars will rank among the all-time greats in ...

The 3 Amigos – 5 steals a game for four years running -by John Pudner Having covered the fact that MUs four stars are on pace to all finish among the Top 6 scorers in MU history in the 1st of a three-part series, today we move onto the mark they’ve left in other areas. Dominic James is on pace t...

Enjoy watching history being made – where the 3 Amigos will finish - by John Pudner It’s hard to enjoy history while it’s being made, but in the future Marquette fans may look back and remember that four of the top six scorers in Marquette history played together for three seasons ending this ...

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Last year, Cracked Sidewalks asked John Pudner ('88) to do a guest column, and he gave us his take on Marquette's Top 100 Players of all time. A week ago, after this discussion on MUScoop, I asked Pudner to use his database for new, evil purposes. On request, he's put together Marquette's Top 20 Rec...

The following is the final entry in a series of guest columns written by John Pudner ('88). We at CrackedSidewalks wish to thank John for this great series. When some of my friends heard I was ranking the Top 100 players some laughed – thinking about the Dwyane Wade bobble head on my desk and the ...

The following is the second in a series of guest columns written by John Pudner ('88). Marquette's 100 Greatest PlayersBy John Pudner #51-75 In the early 1990s, I was writing a column in the New York Post opposite baseball statistical guru Bill James. I would crunch numbers to determine the best pit...

This article is a Guest Column by John Pudner ('88). It is the first installment of four. Key:All-time ranking among Marquette players, Name, (years played), Ratings based on statistics + domination/pro career + impact on program = overall rating. Notes. 76, Pat Smith (1967, 68, 69): Ratings - 7 + 0...