Quote from: Billy Hoyle on February 25, 2026, 08:22:10 PMI saw that on the St John's board yesterday and multiple posters seemingly in the know said St John's is not the team throwing out the $4 million offer, but they did think James is the guy being referred to.

Who could the team be? Nova? PC and CU are probably losing/firing coaches and UConn (according to Dan Hurley) doesn't tamper.  UConn doesn't need a PG as Demery has eligibility. No one else could afford 4M.

Lewis from Nova going to NBA and they going after James? Also, Willard is a snake.

Quote from: BM1090 on February 25, 2026, 11:42:44 PMNigel's not leaving

Agree. If Shaka's back (and he will be), Nigel's back, too.

Always - and I mean ALWAYS - gets it done!

The Ducks just punked the Weasel/Rodents.  Picked up their 4th win in the B18. 

Nigel's not leaving

Quote from: PointWarrior on February 25, 2026, 09:23:11 PMIf Marquette loses James to STJ, I am officially done with all of college basketball. 

Why? Don't we also want really good players to join us?

Gotta give them a reason to stay and give them a reason to want to be here.

St. Johns has done that lately, Marquette has not. If Nigel stays, we are going to be an attractive destination for someone else's star.

Quote from: PointWarrior on February 25, 2026, 09:23:11 PMIf Marquette loses James to STJ, I am officially done with all of college basketball. 

That would be tough to take.

Quote from: Jay Bee on February 25, 2026, 07:51:18 PMWhat was the question? I don't pay much attention to your posts because I know you to be a slow person, erratic and overweight.

My opinion isn't all that important (although usually correct). I hope you have a good evening, my friend. Nothing personal. I'd love nothing more than to cheers beers with you at a Natty that MU wins, but I just don't care about your words.

You sure respond to a ton of my posts to not care.

Quote from: The Sultan on February 25, 2026, 12:24:07 PMI think the article was including academic scholarships under the overall definition of "financial aid." Was that intentional to deceive? I have no idea. But Marquette, as almost every other school, offers academic scholarships regardless of income level.

I seriously doubt Marquette is giving need-based aid to wealthy students. That doesn't make a lot of sense.

So that just means there's a bias of giving academic scholarships to wealthy families based on (insert one of 300 reasons). Which just pushes lower class families to loans.

Quote from: Jay Bee on February 25, 2026, 05:10:59 PMIn mid-September I offered up my thoughts on our offensive four factors. We're done with games through February with at least four more to be played, but going to take a quick visit to see how things are coming along vs. projections.

The only hope was crazy good shooting and it's been awful. So, there ya go.

We're ranked #261 nationally at 32.1 (avg is 35.2). In conference we're just 28.4. We're a little better, but still bad. This is in line with expectations.

30.0% last year ranked us #180. We're slightly improved at 30.3% percentage-wise, but down to #190 nationally. This is in line with expectations.

At 15.8% this season, we rank #114 nationally - a big drop from #8 a year ago. To jump from #114 to into the 50's, however, would be done by only chopping 1% off the 15.8%. So, not an enormous GAP, but vs. last year it's icky. However, a big drop here was expected. In line with expectations.

It was our only hope and it's been putrid. 2FGA at 52.0% isn't crazy off my 'hope' of 52.5%, but still a far cry from last season - expected. 3FGA/FGA of 41.1% is indeed down from last year's 46.4%, but the accuracy is ugly.. 32.2% (#269) vs. 32.6% (#237 last year).. not a big drop, but this is where we needed to do well. Sure, Royce is better than 28.0%, but for the year has been bad (31.1%). IM redshirted and MP just doesn't have the volume to help much this year. Kudos to Nigel and Adrien for helping here, but it's been the ... almost unthinkable ... dreadful shooting of the seniors that has bogged down our 3FG% this year. Chase sub-28% and Ben sub-26%. Unreal, and has made a good offensive year impossible, all other factors considered.

So, the recap is TO%, OR%, and FT rate all behaving in line with expectations. eFG% was known to be the key, and was the only hope... it's turned out even worse due to the brutal 3FG shooting and insane amount of missed at-the-rim shots.

Do we need guys that can shoot? YES. But, also defend. I do want an experienced big man addition next season, but a guy that can shoot with some volume and do well from outside (e.g., wing) would be delicious as well.

#pray

Fts??