Category Archives: College Basketball
Markus Howard Isn’t Getting the Hype He Deserves
Markus Howard is one of the best players in college basketball this season. Howard is the first player in the last 20 years to have two 50-point games in a calendar year. He is an excellent player, and a really good, genuine dude. Why is
MubbCap: Marquette Pulls Out An Improbable Victory
Marquette is Creighton’s daddy or so it seems in the Big East. Marquette has beat Creighton the last six times they’ve played and the Golden Eagles seem to do it in weird ways especially in Omaha. A few years ago, they stunned a top-ranked Jays
Sam Hauser’s Buzzer Beater Defies Logic
Marquette Golden Eagles were dead. Dead, I tell you. They were down by five points to the Creighton Jays with less than a second left to go in the game. Marquette received a quick bucket and had to force turnover in order to have a
MubbCap: Golden Eagles Clamp Down Musketeers
Marquette Golden Eagles were in need of a ‘get-right’ game. They lost to St. John’s on Tuesday night and welcomed Xavier to town on Sunday morning. After a 20 point blowout by the Johnnies, the hope was Marquette could bounce back against a young Xavier
MubbCap: St. John’s Smacks Marquette in Big East Opener
Marquette and conference openers mix like oil and water. Did you know Marquette has not won their road conference opener since 2005? That feels impossible, but it’s true per the impeccable Paint Touches. Marquette has not won their first road conference since 2005 when they
How High is Marquette’s Ceiling?
Marquette Golden Eagles had six difficult non-conference games this season. It got off to a shaky start with the Golden Eagles getting rocked by Indiana on the road. Marquette suffered another tough loss to Kansas being that stretch 0-2 in November against those teams. Marquette
HoopsCap: Marquette Wins Ugly in Rivalry Win Overtime
Winning ugly is not something that was in Marquette’s reptiore for the last couple of years. They didn’t know how to do it. Partly, their team wasn’t built for ugly. Bad defensive teams have a tough time winning ugly because for a game to be
MubbCap: Sluggish Marquette Survives UTEP
On the college football podcast, The Solid Verbal, they have games where they call them a ‘letdown lookahead sandwich’ game. How that’s defined is a game in the middle of two big games that might not be as important. Insert the UTEP miners as the
MubbCap: Marquette Makes a Winning Statement
Statement games are sort of like game faces. What’s a ‘Statement win’? How does one define it. By the book, a statement win could be what Marquette did to Kansas State on Saturday afternoon. Kansas State ranked 12th heading into the game, and Marquette dominated
MubbCap: Golden Eagles Show Grit in Overtime Win
Marquette Golden Eagles seemed like they were headed for the worst case scenario to start their season. An 0-3 November against the upper echelon teams they would play in the month meaning they would have to makeup a ton of ground in December. Louisville had