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Marquette women’s basketball led Seton Hall 23-17 at the end of the first quarter on Wednesday night at the McGuire Center. Marquette women’s basketball led Seton Hall 40-36 at halftime. A Skylar Forbes layup with 6:31 left in the third quarter gave Marquette a 49-42 lead over Seton Hall, their largest lead of the game. […]
27 days ago | 3 reads
How much grace do you want to extend to Marquette men’s basketball on a night when they had a chance to shoot for overtime on the road against a team that is the unofficial #30 team in the country in the AP poll? This has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad season for […]
28 days ago | 1 read
I’m so tired. Marquette women’s basketball hasn’t played a front-to-back solid 40 minutes of basketball since January 8th. They still had a five game winning streak in there, but that came to an end on Sunday as the Golden Eagles fumbled a 12 point lead on the first bucket of the fourth quarter and a […]
29 days ago | 5 reads
THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (9-14, 4-8 Big East) at RV Villanova Wildcats (18-5, 9-3 Big East) THE DATE: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 THE TIME: 6:30pm Central THE LOCATION: Finneran Pavilion, Villanova, Pennsylvania THE TELEVISION: TNT & truTV, with Brian Anderson, Grant Hill, and Andy Katz on the call THE STREAMING: TNTDrama.com/WatchTNT or HBO Max THE RADIO: 94.5 FM/ESPN […]
29 days ago | 1 read
Marquette Golden Eagles (9-15, 4-9 Big East) at RV Villanova Wildcats (18-5, 9-3 Big East) Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026Time: 6:30pm CentralLocation: Finneran Pavilion, Villanova, Pennsylvania Marquette Stats Leaders Points: Nigel James, 15.5 ppgRebounds: Ben Gold, 5.6 rpgAssists: Nigel James, 4.6 apg Marquette Injury Note: Sean Jones has missed the last ten games with a foot […]
30 days ago | 4 reads
I appreciate everyone in the Big East doing everything possible to just make at least short-term storylines happen for the What To Watch every week. Sometimes I sit down to put this together and say “oh, man, how am I going to invent highlights for the week,” and then it turns out that I don’t […]
30 days ago | 3 reads
Okay, let’s get everyone caught up to speed so we all understand how we got here. Back on the recap for the road win against Georgetown on February 1st, regular reader and commenter marquettefan13 noted that Marquette women’s basketball had been short an assistant coach “for at least the last two games” and fellow regular […]
30 days ago | 2 reads
We’ve talked over and over and over about Marquette women’s basketball having massive lapses over the past month or so. As of late, the lapses haven’t officially cost the Golden Eagles anything, although things came very close against DePaul back on January 28th. Sometimes the lapses didn’t even look like it was really a problem […]
30 days ago | 2 reads
It took a minute — okay, it took 17 of them — but Marquette women’s lacrosse finally got things in gear against Cincinnati on Sunday on their way to a 17-10 victory over the Bearcats. Marquette is now 2-0 on the year and they have won five straight against Cincinnati and all seven of the […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
As always, Ben Steele of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel spoke to Marquette men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart after the Golden Eagles saved National Marquette Day with a 70-55 victory over Butler on Saturday. (Aside: Go subscribe to the JS to read Ben’s stuff on Marquette if nothing else. It’s worth it!) There were Bulldogs-related […]
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
Yeah, it’s Super Bowl Sunday. So? That doesn’t mean that we’re going without college basketball for the day. There are 20 games on national television, with women’s basketball carrying the lion’s share with 13 contests. That includes YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles visiting Creighton in a game that’s on FS1 at Noon Central today. Other than […]
about 1 month ago | 5 reads
With 7:04 left in the second quarter, Brady Nicholas scored, making use of his long pole to haul in the rebound off a Carsen Brandt miss, and with that, Marquette was all even with #20 Michigan at four goals each. The Golden Eagles had fallen behind 2-0 in the first four minutes of the 2026 […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
For a moment there on Saturday at Fiserv Forum, things were on the verge of perhaps the nadir of the 2025-26 Marquette men’s basketball season. After a 7-0 burst put Marquette up 14-6 as the clock wound under the 13 mark of the first half, the Golden Eagles started to let the thing drift on […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
With just six Big East regular season games left to go — and one of them a mostly scheduled loss to #1 UConn — it’s not too early to start thinking about what’s on the table for Marquette in terms of conference tournament seeding. At 10-4 in Big East action, Marquette can clinch a top […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (8-14, 3-8 Big East) vs Butler Bulldogs (13-10, 4-8 Big East) THE DATE: Saturday, February 7, 2026 THE TIME: 1pm Central THE LOCATION: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin THE TELEVISION: FS1, with Noah Reed and Phil Martelli on the call THE STREAMING: FoxSports.com/live or the Fox Sports app THE RADIO: 94.5 FM/ESPN […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
I think it is very cool and fun that the powers that be at the national television networks have agreed to celebrate National Marquette Day by putting FORTY-SEVEN college basketball games on nationwide broadcast today. What’s that? It’s probably more because they’re shortening up Sunday’s broadcast schedule because of the Super Bowl? Okay, you probably […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Fifth verse, same as the first: YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles women’s lacrosse team is 1-0 to start the 2026 season, just like they have been for the last four seasons, picking up a 20-9 home win over Eastern Michigan on Friday afternoon. Not only is it the fifth straight win in a season opener for […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Marquette Golden Eagles (8-15, 3-9 Big East) vs Butler Bulldogs (13-10, 4-8 Big East) Date: Saturday, February 7, 2026Time: 1pm CentralLocation: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Marquette Stats Leaders Points: Nigel James, 15.4 ppgRebounds: Ben Gold, 5.4 rpgAssists: Nigel James, 4.7 apg Marquette Injury Note: Sean Jones has missed the last nine games with a foot issue. […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
I don’t know how much of a choice that head coach Jake Richard had regarding his schedule to start the 2026 season, but I don’t particularly think it’s going to start great for Marquette. The fact of the matter is that there’s just a little bit too much of a question status for roles on […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
IT IS ONCE AGAIN TIME FOR LACROSSE! Head coach Meredith Black and the Golden Eagles get their season started coming up on Friday afternoon, and they will be trying to find a way to improve on their 2025 campaign. To be clear, 2025 was not a bad season for Marquette, far from it. Their 10-6 […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Here’s your deciding factor for how you want to feel about Marquette’s 78-61 victory over Providence on Wednesday night at the McGuire Center: How do you feel about Providence going on a 30-16 run across more than 11 minutes of game time to gut a 24 point Marquette lead down to just 10 points? What […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Well, let’s start here: Marquette is going to be wearing pink uniforms on Wednesday night for breast cancer awareness reasons. Here’s Lee Volker demoing the uniforms: And so we move from the facts of the situation to a slightly unbelievable note: Marquette’s road win over Georgetown on Sunday goes into the books as one of […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
#1 — How does head coach Jake Richard guide his team through what is clearly going to be a mentally and/or emotionally difficult season? Back in September, Marquette men’s lacrosse lost Scott Michaud and Noah Snyder as both young men were killed in a traffic accident near campus. Two more players — they’ve never been […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
For a moment, I was looking at this week’s Big East basketball schedules and it was starting to look like maaaybe there weren’t really that many intriguing games on deck. Then I realized that we’re past the halfway point or further even for everyone in the league, and things are Starting To Get Important relative […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
GOAL #1 for Marquette women’s basketball against Georgetown on Sunday was achieved 65 seconds in as Lee Volker hit a three-pointer for the first points of the game. That made the score 3-0 in favor of the Golden Eagles, and by default, this meant that MU would not fall behind 19-0 against the Hoyas as […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads