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February 15, 2008

More Before Marquette

Filed under: Basketball,Big East,Fans,Opponent(s) — Dennis @ 5:11 pm

Flash back to last year: Tom Crean called Pitt-Marquette a rivalry. I didn’t think it was last March and I really don’t think so right now either. Maybe he does it to pump up his players…who knows. What makes a rivalry? Location of the teams — sure it’s Big East, but Pittsburgh and Milwaukee aren’t too close. Great games in the past — we’ve surely had some, but not enough. Passionate fan bases — both teams have a solid following, but I don’t think there’s enough hate between the fans.

Next, a quote.

“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

Come on, you know that’s cool. It’s also the basis for the name of the best MU blog out there…Cracked Sidewalks.

They’re not letting Levance’s offseason problems go away.

Fields missed more time for the foot injury than he did for punching an off-duty police officer, allegedly grabbing for the officer’s weapon, and ultimately being tased in an incident outside a strip club last September.

The fans are going to give him a tough time on that tonight — it’s a guarantee. He’s said in the past though that he’s used to it now and it won’t bother him.

Cracked Sidewalks speaks highly of the great rebounding between Blair and Young. Physicality is the answer.

With Fields back in the mix, MU will need to hit the floor with the same toughness and energy we saw in Newark earlier in the week. Marquette summoned up the moxie and energy that was missing for much of the Big East season as they silenced the chippy Pirates. The Golden Eagles dominated the Pirates on the glass, held them to just 38% shooting, and had an impressive 13 assists on just 30 made field goals.

By the way the over/under on the number of times Dominic James hits the floor is being set at 5 ½. He flops to the floor like he’s been shot (Duke Blue Devil style). I’m taking the over.

I’m headed to North Allegheny HS before the MU game to watch Zeke Marshall (6′ 11″ center from McKeesport) tonight. Hopefully I’ll have some type of “scouting report” (notice the quotation marks) since he is a possible Pitt recruit.





hey…i’m from USC who McKeesport is playing…pumped for the game but don’t think i’ll be able to go, plus i want to see the whole Pitt game…let me know about Zeke and the game overall

Comment by bmac21 02.15.08 @ 5:35 pm

Yeah I’m only going to be staying until around 8:45 so I can hurry home and catch the Pitt game.

Comment by Dennis 02.15.08 @ 6:03 pm

Hey, you probably won’t see this in time, but if you could, let me know about how a couple of Central players play, Lucas Mickens and Matt McKenna (he was hurt earlier in the year, dunno if he’s back yet or not). I went to grade school with those kids, but haven’t gotten much of a chance to see them play at the high school level.

Comment by Will 02.15.08 @ 7:10 pm

Marshall is 6’11”, but that’s it–hate to bang on a high school kid but he’s got little offensive game and he’s passive on D, and not a greqt rebounder. I’m hoping J.D. and crew can do better.

By the way, Mckeesport came back to take the lead tonight in the 4th Q with Marshall on the bench.

Comment by jason 02.16.08 @ 1:13 am

bummer, i listened on the radio, heard USC dominating, i was hoping for the upset. they were up 12 after 3 quarters!

Comment by bmac21 02.16.08 @ 4:36 pm

When evaluating Zeke Marshall, do you guys factor in that the opponents gear up on defense to take Zeke out of the game? I’ve read that USC is a full court man-to-man defensive team. But, they used Box-in-One, Triangle-and-2, and Compact Zones to crowd the paint. Could we possibly expect any player to dominate a game in the inside, where the team concept is to take the inside away? Reading from articles about USC in the paper, Zeke & Day-Day effected the game before tip-off.

Comment by nate 02.19.08 @ 11:26 am

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