College Basketball Team Reports: Marquette Golden Eagles

Williams: We did a lot of pre-scout, what we call pre-scout. We pre-scout every team we are going to play during the summer. Obviously, the pre-scout for the

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Head coach Buzz Williams says Derrick Wilson (pictured) is "ready for the next step." :: Mike McGinnis/Getty Images

Williams: We did a lot of pre-scout, what we call pre-scout. We pre-scout every team we are going to play during the summer. Obviously, the pre-scout for the new teams, we don't have any tape, so all of that stuff was predicated on watching them against other teams. When we play Georgetown, we are looking at what they did to us and what we did to them. This was their counter to that; this was their strategy. But you don't have that with the new teams. So, we track them a little bit more prominently and the first time we play them the assistants who are scouting those teams, you make sure they don't have early assignments so they can spend extra time gathering evidence.

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Published Nov 12, 2013 | Modified Nov 12, 2013

GEORGE DOHRMANN

Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated senior writer George Dohrmann is the rare sportswriter to have won a Pulitzer Prize. He earned journalism's top honor in 2000 while at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Pulitzer cited his "determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota." In 2000 he joined Sports Illustrated, where his primary beat is investigative reporting. He has also covered college football, college basketball and high school sports for SI and SI.com. Dohrmann is the author of the book, Play Their Hearts Out, an expose about youth basketball that was published by Random House in October 2010. It won the 2011 PEN/ESPN Award for literary sports writing and was named the best sports book of the year by Amazon. Dohrmann cites the 2010 story Confessions of an Agent and the Michael Vick dog-fighting case in 2007 as the most memorable stories of his SI career. He has also written investigative stories on Ohio State football, UCLA basketball and other schools. Dohrmann's previous experience includes stops at the aforementioned St. Paul Pioneer Press (1997-2000), where he covered University of Minnesota football and basketball, and the Los Angeles Times (1995-1997), where he was the beat writer for USC basketball. Dohrmann graduated from Notre Dame in 1995 with a B.A. in American studies and later earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco (2006). He resides in San Francisco with his wife, Sharon, daughter, Jessica, son, Justin and a crazy mutt named Reyna.

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