Cracked Sidewalks

"My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world was a cracked sidewalk."
—Al McGuire

Marquette's Premier Basketball Blog

Monday, February 27, 2017

#MUBB is skating on thin ice

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Terrible pun aside, this weekend was tough for #mubb basketball for a whole lot of reasons. We discuss the Providence game and especially th...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Happy National Marquette Day!

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Scrambled Eggs is celebrating National Marquette Day by having a giddy pod discussing the Marquette victory over Xavier. We start by talking...

Year three of the rebuild....how it is going thus far?

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I've long been an advocate that it takes four to five years to do a rebuild correctly.  Allows for two freshman classes in to matriculat...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Where does #mubb go from here?

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Well, things look a lot different in mid-February than they did in late January. The pod starts with an overview of the poor performance and...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Comparing NCAA's Release of Top 16 with Value Add's New Injury Adjusted Rankings

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Well, that was depressing. It looks like the scouting report on Marquette's previous unstoppable offense is going to require some adjust...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Catching up on the last couple of games, diving into numbers, and.....UCONN???

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We're back on the podcasting train after a few games with less than stellar results, so we start with reviewing the last 3 games for Mar...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Big East Tourney Chances Devastated by Injuries to Sumner and Watson

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The Big East's chances for a monumental tournament were dealt severe blows with season-ending injuries to point guards for two of their ...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Reinhardt and Wilson surge to give MU one of deepest teams; 8-seed in tournament

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In a season  highlighted by the play of two of the top freshmen in the country, veterans Katin Reinhardt and Duane Wilson surged to carry Ma...

It was still a good week for #mubb

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The Scrambled Eggs pod refuses to let losing to Providence to cause us panic or not enjoy the last week and a half of Marquette basketball. ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

What a difference a quality win makes

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Prepare yourselves, we thought this was going to be a relatively quick pod after a big Marquette win on Saturday against Creighton; turns ou...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Apparently hope isn't a strategy, but that doesn't stop us from trying

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Every MU fan in the 2nd Half against Butler Marquette is where we thought they would be after the Seton Hall, DePaul and Butler games...th...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Howard Surging, MU 1st Four Out in Value Add

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While Markus Howard continues to surge toward the top 5% (top 200) of all players at www.valueaddbasketball.com , the earlier departure of T...
Sunday, January 08, 2017

That was a suboptimal performance from Marquette, let's see if they can bounce back

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Two Marquette games and two bad outcomes for very different reasons. First we focus on the most recent game, the drubbing in Philadelphia by...
Saturday, January 07, 2017

Marquette shoots for second win over a No. 1 team

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Marquette will try for a win over a No. 1 ranked team for the only time besides Dwyane Wade's win over Kentucky. Kenpom gives Marquett...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

First Big East win to get ready for the new year!

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Podcast has been on a break for the holidays, somewhat unplanned but after the first big win of the Big East system, we're back to talk ...
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53% Chance at Bid; Updated Top 50; JJJ Closing on MVP

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A year ago I wrote that Marquette needed 23 wins to make the NCAA tournament and had a 3.2% chance of making the tournament. I will not re...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Georgetown's two All-Big East Players Next Up; MU one of Few Teams with 4 in Top 10%

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The Georgetown Hoyas will be the first to visit after Christmas, and they bring two of the top six Big East players in Rodney Pryor and LJ P...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Holidays are upon us, let's hope Marquette can unwrap a new defense

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Welcome back to the Scrambled Eggs podcast, holiday edition. It's a holiday edition in that we mention Christmas at some point. Other th...
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Sunday, December 11, 2016

3 Freshman in American have hit 20+ 3-pointers at 50% clip, and 2 of them are ...

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Marquette is one of 14 teams with more than one freshman in the top 20% of all players according to Value Add Basketball . Kentucky has four...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

The team delivered important wins, now we can focus on #BadgerHateWeek

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The most hateful time of year is here and we're excited to talk about it. However, first we have to talk about the two wins Marquette go...
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