Your home for coverage of Wisconsin's elite college athletics.
I said it along the way as we learned that Isabela Haggard, Mari King, and Natalie Ring would be transfering out of Marquette following the 2025 season: Head volleyball coach Tom Mendoza is going to get a chance to go to work in the transfer portal. On Saturday, we got the first evidence of his […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
As I type this sentence, the horn just sounded for the end of Marquette’s 79-59 loss to #6 Purdue. That doesn’t come close to explaining what happened in this game, as the Boilermakers were up 77-47 with less than four minutes left. The Golden Eagles threw a 12-0 run at Matt Painter’s team after the […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
For now, Marquette women’s basketball is 6-3 on the year but more importantly 2-0 in the Big East. They are one of just two 2-0 teams in the league with only three more standing at 1-0. That is going to change rapidly come Wednesday when the Golden Eagles hit the road to visit the other […]
2 months ago | 1 read
THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (5-5) at #6 Purdue Boilermakers (9-1, 2-0 Big Ten) THE DATE: Saturday, December 13, 2025 THE TIME: 1pm Central THE LOCATION: Mackey Arena, West Lafayette, Indiana THE TELEVISION: Nope. THE STREAMING: Peacock, with (sigh) John Fanta and Jess Settles on the call THE RADIO: 94.5 FM/ESPN Milwaukee, available online via The Varsity […]
2 months ago | 1 read
Last week was the college football conference championships. Next week is the first round of the college football playoffs. This week? Not so much with the college football to put on television, so there are 34 nationally televised college basketball games to be watched! There’s 31 men’s games and three women’s games, and two of […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
Name: Purdue University Location: West Lafayette, Indiana (which apparently is the most densely populated city in the state), conveniently located across the Wabash River from Lafayette, Indiana. Founded: 1869 Enrollment: 57,310 as of Fall 2025, with 43,067 undergraduates. FUN FACT: Purdue’s student body is 59% male this year, which I presume as a lot to do with the STEM […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
Over in the Facebook comments on our recap of the Marquette men’s basketball loss to Wisconsin, reader Michael P. posed this question: Can this team be fixed this year? My gut reaction to that question was this: Step 1: Reversing the downward trend. I legitimately think they’re getting worse. So, obviously, that made my brain […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
In less than two months, we’re going to see Marquette women’s lacrosse back in action! Head coach Meredith Black announced her team’s 2026 schedule on Thursday, and you better believe that it’s full of familiar names. Seven of Marquette’s 10 non-conference opponents were on the 2025 calendar and only one of the other three is […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
As you’re reading this, it’s Thursday morning, December 11th, 2025. This week is Finals Week at Marquette University, and with Wednesday’s exams in the books, we’re officially past the halfway point. If you’re familiar with the traffic around campus at the end of fall semester, you know that today is the first big day of […]
2 months ago | 1 read
Welcome to Wednesday, where it’s time for our third Marquette volleyball roster update post in as many days. To catch you up, on Monday, we discussed freshman setter Isabela Haggard entering the transfer portal. On Tuesday, we moved on to redshirt junior outside hitter Natalie Ring doing the same for her final year of eligibility. […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
Hey, remember back at the start of the season? Remember when I posited a series of If statements about the 2025-26 Marquette men’s basketball season? Imagined possibilities for what it would take for the Golden Eagles to turn in a successful campaign? Not all of them had to work out but several of them had […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
The coaching change aftershocks that we discussed on Monday when Isabela Haggard entered the transfer portal appear to be continuing. On Tuesday, On3’s Talia Goodman kept bringing the heat on Marquette volleyball transfer news with the update that redshirt junior outside hitter Natalie Ring is entering the portal. Natalie Ring was the top attacker in […]
2 months ago | 6 reads
Right about 11am on Monday, On3’s Talia Goodman reported that Marquette volleyball setter Isabela Haggard is entering the transfer portal. The timing of that is fascinating, because at almost exactly the same time, Marquette hit publish on their press release announcing that Brazilian junior national team setter Luanna Markus had signed with the Golden Eagles […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
Ah, finally, a week with no Monday games so we can relax a little bit. In fact, it’s a big week of relaxing in the Big East. It’s Finals Week at Marquette and apparently across a lot of the rest of the conference as well. There are just four men’s basketball games before 6pm Central […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
You don’t need to be great for 40 minutes to blow a team out, you just need to be great for stretches at a time. Take Marquette women’s basketball on Sunday afternoon at the McGuire Center. They were down 10-7 to Butler with 4:53 to play in the first quarter. Then they led 19-14 at […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
I’ve been trying to figure out the right compliment for how Marquette volleyball went about their business on Saturday afternoon in Kentucky, and I think I can hit the right note this way: Marquette made #2 seed and host Louisville beat them. Marquette had a 2-1 set lead on the road against the #2 seed […]
2 months ago | 1 read
For about seven minutes, we had some standard issue if not low scoring basketball at the Kohl Center on Saturday. A layup from Chase Ross pulled Marquette within one, 6-5. And then Wisconsin scored 10 of the next 12 points. 16-7 Badgers. It would be a 15-4 UW run before Marquette scored consecutive baskets again, […]
2 months ago | 8 reads
THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles at RV Wisconsin-Madison Badgers THE DATE: Saturday, December 6, 2025 THE TIME: 1pm Central THE LOCATION: Kohl Center, Madison, Wisconsin THE TELEVISION: FS1, with Jeff Levering and LaPhonso Ellis calling the action THE STREAMING: FoxSports.com/live or the Fox Sports app THE RADIO: 94.5 FM/ESPN Milwaukee, available online via The Varsity Network. THE […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
2025 NCAA Volleyball Tournament Second Round #2 Louisville Cardinals (25-6, 16-4 ACC) vs Marquette Golden Eagles (18-10, 11-5 Big East) Date: Saturday, December 6, 2025Time: 5pm CentralLocation: L&N Federal Credit Union Arena, Louisville, KentuckyStreaming: ESPN+Live Stats: Stat BroadcastTwitter Updates: @MarquetteVBBluesky Updates: @AnonymousEagle All-Time Series: Louisville leads, 27-5… but Marquette did win the last meeting, 3-0, in the 2013 […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
For the fourth consecutive season — and the first time under first year head coach Tom Mendoza! — Marquette volleyball has advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament! The Golden Eagles took advantage of a favorable draw from the tournament committee and picked up a 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-16) sweep of #7 seed […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
Name: University of Wisconsin-Madison Location: Madison, Wisconsin Founded: 1848 Enrollment: 51,822 students for Fall 2025, with 37,198 undergraduates School Colors: Cardinal and white, officially, but no one is going to yell at you if you say red and white. Nickname: Badgers Why “Badgers?” Wisconsin was dubbed the “Badger State” because of the lead miners who first settled there in the 1820s and […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
FULL TRANSPARENCY: I’m starting work on this with 7:30 left in the game and Marquette up 72-40. Why start the recap before the game is over? Uh, mostly because it’s been over. 23-9 Marquette at the end of the first quarter, powered by the Golden Eagles getting a cut throat — their terminology for three […]
2 months ago | 1 read
2025 NCAA Volleyball Tournament First Round #7 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (27-5, 15-1 CUSA) vs Marquette Golden Eagles (17-10, 11-5 Big East) Date: Friday, December 5, 2025Time: 3pm CentralLocation: L&N Federal Credit Union Arena, Louisville, KentuckyStreaming: ESPN+Live Stats: Stat Broadcast, probably, but also maybe NCAA.com?Twitter Updates: @MarquetteVB Bluesky Updates: @AnonymousEagle All-Time Series: Marquette leads, 4-2, including […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
I’ve made two choices with this preview. The first is that I am not going to do a Where Are We Now? post for Big East women’s basketball. The fact of the matter is that everyone in the league is somewhere between four and eight games played right now. That’s not exactly a lot of […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Back in 2007, Michael Bisping and Matt Hamill fought in the light heavyweight weight class at UFC 75. Both men were undefeated at the time, although Bisping was the more experienced fighter and had come out victorious in the same weight class in The Ultimate Fighter 3 in the summer of 2006. The fight went […]
2 months ago | 3 reads