There is no question that Marquette is hot. They have won 5 straight in the Big East. They have gone Samson on this, by not cutting their hair in the streak.

Of course, MU hasn’t lost since Buzz Williams decreed that players and coaches avoid the barber.

Williams was upset that MU wasn’t being “us” on every possession in a close loss to Syracuse. Then came the order.

“‘I’m not sure why you guys are forgetting that we have to be ‘us’ every single possession,” Williams recalled he told his team on the plane after the loss to the Orange. “‘So what we’re going to do is you guys can’t cut your hair. And I can’t cut my hair. And hopefully we’ll grow enough hair that there will be enough protection for your brain to not forget.'”

The team claims that it isn’t the reason for the streak, but they aren’t going to risk messing with things either.

That five-game winning streak is the same as Pitt’s best run in the conference. The only teams in the Big East with longer conference winning streaks this year are Syracuse (10), Villanova (9) and Georgetown (6).

Most of the conference can never get a chance to get rolling for very long. Nine teams have only been able to muster 2-game winning streaks — including Georgetown — and of course DePaul has only won one conference game this year. USF (4 games) is the only other team to win more than 2 games in a row in the Big East this year.

It’s also worth noting that is not too hard to lose at least a couple straight in the course of the season. Villanova and Syracuse obviously have not lost 2 straight to this point. The only other team to make that claim? Georgetown. They can’t seem to win more than a couple in a row, but they don’t lose more than one at a time Actually, even Georgetown doesn’t make it on this list when limited to the conference games only. They lost to Syracuse and USF in conference — sandwiched around the non-con Duke win.

It has not been an easy conference to get and keep rolling this year. That Marquette has been one of the few to do so is just another reminder of how tough a game tomorrow will be.