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It was quiet, then it wasn’t with the commitment of Sananda Fru to join Marquette men’s basketball for the 2026-27 season. Apparently, once the dam broke, it was only a matter of time until Shaka Smart kept things moving in a positive direction, and so: St. Thomas transfer and Brookfield, Wisconsin resident Nolan Minessale will […]
Come September, the Big East will have a new commissioner for the first time since The Reformation. On Monday morning, the league announced that Commissioner Val Ackerman will retire from her position as of August 31, 2026. A national search by the Big East Board of Directors — which is just the presidents of the […]
Hi! The 2026 EDSBS Charity Bowl is officially underway! Are you unfamiliar with the EDSBS Charity Bowl? It is the yearly fundraiser organized by the fine folks over at Channel 6 and the Shutdown Fullcast. It supports New American Pathways, an organization which describes their mission as follows: New American Pathways is an Atlanta based nonprofit […]
I think we’re still seeing Tom Mendoza settle in as Marquette’s women’s volleyball head coach. Back last week, Marquette and Mendoza announced the hiring of Kennedy Fabian as an assistant coach on the volleyball staff. Fabian replaces Riley Whitesides on the staff, and I think that’s not entirely unsurprising. As you can see from the […]
I guess Marquette wasn’t really bothered by having two weeks off between games. On Saturday, Marquette women’s lacrosse wrapped up their home portion of the Big East schedule with a 20-6 win over Butler. Sure, it’s Butler, which is now 3-12 on the year and 0-5 in the Big East. Odds are Marquette was going […]
Marquette went to overtime for the third time in Big East play this season in Saturday’s home finale against Villanova. For the first time in three tries this season, Marquette did not find a way to win. In fact, it’s worse than that, because the Golden Eagles had more than their fair share of opportunities […]
With Kam Jones’ Indiana Pacers finishing the year at 19-63 and 24 games out of the Play-In Tournament and Olivier-Maxence Prosper’s Memphis Grizzlies finishing 12 games out at 25-57, it was bound to get a little bit shallow in terms of former Marquette guys to watch in the 2026 NBA Playoffs. In fact, as I […]
Y’know, I didn’t expect this one. When Megan Duffy left Marquette, obviously MU voided the letters of intent for the freshmen that Duffy had signed. Two of those signees followed Duffy to Virginia Tech. One of them is leaving after two years…. and Kayl Petersen has elected to end up at Marquette, just like she […]
Marquette women’s lacrosse can not clinch a Big East tournament berth on their own on Saturday. The Golden Eagles come into the weekend at 2-2 in the league. That has them tied for third place behind a tie for first between Denver and Georgetown at 4-0. However, because Marquette is tied with Villanova, the team […]
I think Marquette clinches a Big East tournament berth with a victory on Saturday. The Golden Eagles already can’t finish lower than fifth because even if they end up in a tie with St. John’s for last, MU has the tiebreaker with the Red Storm. Everything else is up in the air right now, but […]
The college basketball offseason inches along, and so does Cara Consuegra’s pursuit of assembling a roster that she can actually put on the floor for the 2026-27 season. We got a little bit of forward momentum in that regard on Thursday, as South Florida transfer Brooklyn Hall announced her commitment to Marquette. Hall signed to […]
It was a pretty accepted idea that Marquette women’s basketball clearly got better across the span of Cara Consuegra’s first season in charge in Milwaukee. Sure, there was a little bit of Zero Expectations that helped that out, but the math maths out pretty good here. Through the first nine games of the season, Consuegra […]
For the first time since Shaka Smart actually stepped onto the sideline to coach Marquette men’s basketball for the first time in a live game, the Golden Eagles have taken on a Division 1 transfer. On Tuesday, Louisville transfer Sananda Fru announced his commitment to play for Smart and the Golden Eagles in the 2026-27 […]
With the 2025-26 season long since in the books, let’s take a few moments to look back at the performance of each member of YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles this year. While we’re at it, we’ll also take a look back at our player previews and see how our preseason prognostications stack up with how things actually played […]
I had long wondered if Marquette women’s basketball was going to end up finding a freshman out in the open after a coaching change to add to the 2026-27 roster. Head coach Cara Consuegra went into the 2025-26 season with six expected roster spots open and just one freshman expected coming in, it seemed like […]
Who’s ready for NBA Playoff Basketball?? Well, if not, you’ve got a little bit of time left, because the next few days are THE PLAY-IN TOURNAMENT, which is somehow not the Playoffs, but is also not the regular season, and also not the playoffs, at least in terms of tracking stats. IN ANY CASE, that […]
With the 2025-26 season long since in the books, let’s take a few moments to look back at the performance of each member of YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles this year. While we’re at it, we’ll also take a look back at our player previews and see how our preseason prognostications stack up with how things actually played […]
The men’s college basketball transfer portal opened up on Tuesday morning, and as of Sunday morning, YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles have not evolved their roster with a commitment yet. That’s not particularly surprising, as I don’t think that anyone expected head coach Shaka Smart to be quick about any of this, not with just three […]
The fun news is that Nolan Rappis hit 100 career points on Saturday at Cooper Field. It came on his fourth point of the day as well as his second goal of the day. Rappis is the ninth man in Marquette men’s lacrosse history to reach the century mark. The bad news is that Marquette […]
YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: THIS IS NOW A SEATTLE STORM BLOG. As confirmed by ESPN’s Alexa Philippou, former Marquette Golden Eagles guard Natisha Hiedmean will be signing a two year free agent contract with the Seattle Storm. The deal ends her two year run in Minnesota and will keep her in the WNBA for an eighth […]
It took nearly seven extra minutes past the expected run time for the first two games of Big East play for Marquette men’s lacrosse to wrap up their 2-0 start, but the end result is that the Golden Eagles have put themselves into a prime position heading into the final three games of the regular […]
On April 7th, Marquette men’s basketball announced that Jeremy Ballard would be joining the team as an assistant coach. At the time, I noted that part of the announcement of adding Ballard was not just the departure of Nevada Smith for the Siena head coaching position, but also the departure of assistant coach DeAndre Haynes. […]
On Tuesday, Marquette men’s basketball announced the hiring of Jeremy Ballard as an assistant coach. Well, sure, that makes sense, it’s been six days since Siena announced Nevada Smith as their new head coach, obviously Shaka Smart knew that Smith was up for the job long before that point, he went about his hiring process […]
We got Marquette women’s basketball news on Tuesday morning, just not new player news. Head coach Cara Consuegra has announced the addition of Sheila Boykin as an assistant coach. This is the space where quotes from Cara Consuegra via the press release would go, but GUESS WHAT: Marquette posted about this on social media without […]
The transfer portal for women’s college basketball officially opened on Monday, the day after the national championship game that saw UCLA stomping out South Carolina, 79-51. Apparently, “on Monday” meant “midnight Eastern,” as shortly after that border passed, On3’s Talia Goodman reported that Marquette forward Skylar Forbes is in the portal. A quick check of […]