Shaka Smart has plenty of experience against Oklahoma. Porter Moser has plenty of experience in Chicago. Smart's Marquette squad and Moser's Oklahoma team square off in the Bad Boy Mowers Series in Chicago on Friday afternoon.
Is it time to change the system? Does Shaka Smart need to hit the transfer portal? Is Marquette’s season already over? Believe it or not, these are all fair questions to ask.
CHICAGO – Shaka Smart had seen enough. He needed a timeout. Tucker DeVries had just converted his fifth 3-point make of the first half and Indiana had extended its lead to 11 points late in the first half.
Indiana basketball made a statement on Sunday afternoon at United Center in Chicago. With Marquette leading 24-22 with around 10 minutes left in the first
CHICAGO, Ill. — Watch as Marquette basketball head Shaka Smart discussed a 100-77 Indiana win Sunday at United Center. For Darian DeVries and the IU players, GO HERE.
Shaka Smart has seen a lot in his coaching career, but the UConn Huskies' top guys still make him sit up. At Big East Media Day, the Marquette coach singled out three Huskies already on the Preseason First Team, calling them ultimate winners who can take over a game anytime.
Four. That’s the number of transfers Marquette head coach Shaka Smart has recruited in his five years at the Big East School. While other schools start over year-after-year with new transfer classes, Smart has mostly avoided the transfer portal and continues running his program the old fashion way: developing guys over four years.
Shaka Smart and the Marquette Golden Eagles are heading into the 2025-26 season with high hopes after finishing last year with a 23-11 record, tying for fourth in the Big East Conference.
During the 2010-11 season, Shaka Smart gained recognition when he guided the VCU Rams to their only Final Four in school history. Since then, the Marquette Golden Eagles head coach has struggled to recapture that magic in the NCAA Tournament. On Friday, No.
One of the best games of day two of March Madness was one of the closest matchups on paper. No. 7 seed Marquette and No. 10 seed New Mexico went back and forth almost all day in Cleveland, with the Lobos eventually pulling away in the final minutes to get the 75-66 win.
Shaka Smart has reshaped Marquette basketball by taking a bold stance against conventional college sports practices. His approach, which discourages players from hiring agents and avoids the transfer portal, sets Marquette apart from other top programs.
Marquette basketball head coach Shaka Smart made a striking admission after the Golden Eagles’ 70-64 loss to St John’s. The clash between the No. 11 and No.
Marquette basketball earned a 88-74 victory over Wisconsin on Saturday, extending its undefeated streak to seven games at home. Head coach Shaka Smart has brought the Golden Eagles back to form, after a tough loss to a good Iowa State squad earlier this week.
Marquette coach Shaka Smart understood just how big of a win his team got on Tuesday night in Milwaukee, taking down No. 6 Purdue 76-58. After the game, the Golden Eagles leader had plenty of praise for the Boilermakers.
Torturing teams from beyond the arc is something Marquette has prided itself on since Shaka Smart took over as coach ahead of the 2021-22 campaign. Smart's
Royce Parham has earned early minutes for Shaka Smart’s Marquette Golden Eagles as a freshman. The former North Hills star posted his best game of the season on Monday night in a win over Central Michigan out of the MAC.
Coach Shaka Smart said he is excited about his new-look yet veteran-savvy Marquette team ahead of the No. 18 Golden Eagles' season opener Monday against Stony Brook in Milwaukee.
Marquette head coach Shaka Smart believes that his former Golden Eagles protege has a golden opportunity with the New York Knicks ... and vice versa. Kolek joins the Knicks as the 34th pick of the most recent draft out of Milwaukee.
We went 1-2 on our favorite picks yesterday, and with Illinois winning also, Thursday was the day of the dogs. We've got a fresh four-game slate to wrap up the Sweet 16, what say you to us finding some winners together?
In Shaka Smart’s second year as a college head coach, he took VCU from the First Four to the Final Four. Thirteen years later, he’s finally back in the Sweet 16.
The Marquette basketball program is set to play in its first NCAA Tournament game on Friday against Western Kentucky, and Shaka Smart gave a good update on star player Tyler Kolek, who has been dealing with an oblique injury as of late and sat out this week at the Big East Tournament.
The Texas Longhorns visited the Marquette Golden Eagles in Milwaukee on Wednesday night in a highly-anticipated non-conference battle between two top-12 teams, but the end result had anything but thrills.