Milwaukee, WI— DePaul blitzed high-scoring Marquette guard Markus Howard in ball screen defensive coverages and ran him off the three-point line when he did find space behind the arc. The Golden Eagles were forced to look elsewhere for points if they were going to defeat DePaul in a Big East Conference match-up in Milwaukee on […]
Marquette Uses Strong Second Half to Get Past Providence
Newark, NJ – Hidden away in a Fiserv Forum locker room at halftime with his Marquette team trailing Providence 33-25, Sam Hauser and his teammates missed out on the on-court ceremony honoring former Marquette star Dwyane Wade, who announced in the fall that he will end his 16-year run through the NBA upon the conclusion […]
Theo John Leads Marquette Past Seton Hall
Milwaukee, WI – The Marquette game program features a different Marquette player for each home game. It took until Marquette’s 13th home game of the season against Seton Hall on Saturday afternoon before sophomore Theo John found his way onto the cover of the program, but the timing could not have been better as John […]
Howard Leads Marquette to Win over Xavier
Milwaukee, WI – As one of the best shooters in college basketball, Marquette’s Markus Howard has not had much practice bouncing back from sub-par shooting games this season, primarily because he has not had many sub-par shooting games to bounce back from. But he had one in Marquette’s last game, an 89-69 defeat to St. […]
Marquette Hands Buffalo First Loss Behind Classic Game From Howard
Milwaukee, WI – The Buffalo Bulls came calling on the Marquette Golden Eagles on Friday night bringing with them a perfect 11-0 record and hoping to add Marquette to its list of major school victims that included West Virginia and Syracuse. A one-point Marquette lead at halftime opened into a back-and-forth game early in the […]
Marquette Wins State Rivalry Over Wisconsin in OT
Milwaukee, WI – Marquette big Ed Morrow does not start. He rarely plays half the minutes of a game. And he entered Marquette’s game against rival Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon in Milwaukee averaging five points per game, sixth best on the Golden Eagles. But with 35 seconds left in the second half and the score […]
Howard’s 45 Points Lead Marquette to Upset of Kansas State
Milwaukee, WI – If Marquette was going to upset #10 ranked Kansas State on Saturday afternoon at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, the Golden Eagles were going to have to do with their star player, junior guard Markus Howard, coming off a mid-week bout with a flu that left him operating on less than full […]
Marquette Uses Late Run to Get By Presbyterian
Milwaukee, WI – Marquette welcomed Presbyterian to the Fiserv Forum on Saturday afternoon hoping to get well after suffering through a lopsided mid-week loss to Indiana when the Hoosiers outplayed the Golden Eagles from tipoff to buzzer. But as the game wound its way into the middle minutes of the second half, Presbyterian held a […]
Marquette Gets First Win in New Arena
Milwaukee, WI – Moving his Marquette basketball team into a new downtown arena, incorporating two transfers and two freshmen into his playing rotation and preparing his team for one of the school’s most challenging non-conference schedules in recent years are enough for Marquette Coach Steve Wojciechowski to concern himself with in the opening weeks of […]
