The Buzz Williams Era BeginsWritten by: noreply@blogger.com (Tim Blair (aka NY Warrior))In his 221st day on the job (http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?action=stats), Buzz Williams' Marquette Warriors hit the court in their season opener against Houston Baptist Huskies on Friday night at the Bradley Center. Tipoff is set for 7:30pm CT.
Rosiak previews the game well in his latest blog, which can be found here (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/34416349.html). The official Marquette preview can be found here (http://gomarquette.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/111308aaa.html) (with a link to the full game notes in .pdf). Sportsline offers this preview (http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/gamecenter/preview/NCAAB_20081114_HOUBP@MARQET).
Key points about the Huskies:
- Houston Baptist suits up 10 seniors.
- Houston Baptist has six D-1 transfers including fellas who played for Purdue, UT-Arlington and Auburn.
- Houston Baptist like to run - they topped East Texas Baptist University (http://hbuhuskies.athleticsite.com/article.asp?articleID=495) in an exhibition matchup, 104-88.
- Houston Baptist plays an aggressive schedule. Also on the docket for the Huskies -- Villanova, SMU, UWGB, Iowa State, Ohio State, Illinois State and Iowa State.
- Their coach, Ron Cottrell, starts the season with a 361-168 record and has averaged more than 22 wins per season at HBU.
A few pregame MU notes:
- David Cubillan and Wesley Matthews are expected to play.
- When the Three Amigos start against HBU, they will collectively have started a remarkable 299 games in their careers.
- Dominic James needs to average about 11 points per game this season to become the all-time leading scorer in Marquette history.
In other misc links
- Missed the press conference? Check out the podcast from the press conference (http://cstvpodcast.cstv.com.edgesuite.net/marquette/Signing_Presser.mp3). In addition, Buzz had another radio interview on 1250 yesterday. Here is direct link for the mp3 (http://wssp.radiotown.com/audio/doug/111308_Doug_Buzz_Williams.mp3). He spends almost all the time talking about the recruits. It was another good interview.
- New signee Brett Roseboro had a few articles about him in his local coverage. One from the Philly Burbs (http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-11132008-1620735.html) and another one from The morning call.com (http://www.mcall.com/sports/highschool/all-s-roseboro.6668890nov13,0,6466372.story).
- Finally, in the most recent bracketology (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology), Lunardi picks MU as a 5-seed. Okay.
- MUTV interviews walk-on Robert Frozena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQSZO5aDnds). May God bless the walk-on.
- Andy Katz catches up with assistant coach Tony Benford (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3700153&name=katz_andy).
Marquette hoops is back. Life is good.
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