Category Archives: College Basketball
Koby McEwen’s Big Second Half Prevents Marquette From a Green Bay Letdown
Letdown games are a thing in all sports. They’re never fun. You have a big win against a rival or a top opponent, and you need to keep that focus for the next opponent who isn’t as good. It’s not an easy task. Then you
Badgers Not Letting COVID Cancel Hoops & Schedule Rhode Island for Wednesday
Wisconsin Badgers basketball is dealing with their first COVID-related issue of the season. The much-anticipated ACC/Big Ten Challenge game between Louisville and Wisconsin is postponed for now. Louisville is dealing with some COVID issues in their program, but they have not enacted a 14-day pause.
Badgers Make Too Many Mistakes Against Marquette Leading to The Upset
For those that don’t know, I write about Wisconsin basketball regularly. We’re a Wisconsin sports blog so it would make no sense to not include the Badgers basketball team. That said, I’m not a fan of them. Never will be. But still, I watch and
Marquette Proved They Belong With CBB’s Big Boys After Beating Wisconsin
Marquette Golden Eagles and Wisconsin Badgers is one of the best rivalries in college basketball. Now and again, there is a clunker like last season. But for the most part, you get dramatic, throw the records out type of basketball game. Marquette stumbled on Tuesday
My Reaction to Tip-In Heard Aaround Wisconsin
Last night’s Wisconsin-Marquette game was one of the record books. Marquette beat Wisconsin, 67-65 on a tip-in by Justin Lewis at the buzzer. The moment was absolutely incredible. If you missed this game, you missed one of the better college basketball games I’ve watched in
Hoosiers-Badgers Preview: Can Wisconsin Take Down the Big Ten Darling?
Wisconsin Badgers get started again. It feels like that has been a sentence used about this football team multiple times this season. First, we heard in October when they played Illinois. Second, we heard it after Wisconsin needed to delay for two weeks because of
Marquette’s Zone & Press Woes Lead To First Loss of The Season
Marquette Golden Eagles started the year, 2-0. This is something they’ve done often. But then they play a top-tier opponent that is in a Power 5 Football conference and they crumble like a cheap suit. As Paint Touches noted, Marquette is 1-6 in those games
Badgers’ First Thoughts After Their First Two Wins of 2020-2021
Sometimes, life is as hard as a blogger. Marquette and Wisconsin are playing on the same day. And sometimes at the same time. I’ll never watch Wisconsin over Marquette. Just not in my blood or my DNA. But when I’m writing about teams I like
First Impressions About This Season of Marquette Basketball
Typically, we will try to get a recap up the day after games. That will be the mission moving forward. Friday games are always tough which we have two of them in the next two weeks. As a placeholder, let’s talk about the first two
Can Wisconsin Basketball Live Up To The Hype?
In normal years, we would be tipping off college basketball this week or the week prior. There would be some fun games in the first week of the season as well as some mind-numbing upsets. But this isn’t a normal year. We all know that.