Author: Carter Bainbridge
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SU Could Fill Need, Gain Star With 4-Star DB Willy Love
We‚Äôve now officially entered the slow period of Syracuse sports news. Save for struggles across the board for SU men‚Äôs lacrosse and the women‚Äôs team‚Äôs title pursuit, we‚Äôre now stuck on speculating about AAU basketball and offering way-too-early predictions. On this week‚Äôs Fizz Five, we even touched on who could break out this year for…
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Fizz Five 4/14: Lacrosse Concerns, Basketball Transfers & Football Breakout Candidates
Cam Ezeir and Carter Bainbridge are your latest hosts for Fizz Five. This week, the guys discuss the issues plaguing both of Syracuse’s lacrosse squads, a potential basketball transfer target, and tab their way-too-early picks for football breakout candidates.
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An Early Look At SU’s Class of 2023 Center Targets
With Syracuse men‚Äôs hoops‚Äô Class of 2022 recruiting class all but set in stone, we‚Äôve already begun to think about what SU‚Äôs starting five will look like as next season gets under way. With several players in the mix for a limited number of positions – such as sophomore Benny Williams and two freshmen vying…
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SU’s Post-Swider, Boeheim Choices Will Define A New Era
If you woke up this morning to an influx of Hakim Warrick gifs on social media, there‚Äôs a reason why. Today marks 19 years to the day since Syracuse won the 2003 National Championship over Kansas. SU‚Äôs program is obviously in a very different place than it was 19 years ago, but it has failed…
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Could A First-Year SU Head Coach Pull A “Hubert Davis”?
With the national championship set for tonight, it may still come as a surprise that one of its entrants is even still playing. 1 seed Kansas was expected by plenty of people to be here, but what about 8 seed North Carolina? The Heels were just about left for dead after they bombed off the…
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SU Center Frank Anselem Enters Transfer Portal
For the second consecutive offseason, Syracuse men‚Äôs hoops has now been surprised by one of its own heading to the transfer portal. Today, sophomore center Frank Anselem entered the portal, marking a possible fresh start elsewhere for the backup big man. Anselem‚Äôs decision didn‚Äôt quite register the shock value that Kadary Richmond and Quincy Guerrier‚Äôs…
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Time To Admit It: We All Underestimated The ACC
With the calendar about ready to flip over to April, Syracuse pulled a trick on us all and dumped roughly six inches of snow on the city during a time when most of the country is already wearing shorts. Locals might‚Äôve expected this, but trust an outsider to tell you that we weren‚Äôt at all…
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SU Football’s Spring Ball Check-In
With Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball officially in the offseason and SU men‚Äôs lacrosse mired under .500, there isn‚Äôt a ton of sports news hitting the Salt City as of late. The late-spring, early-summer period of SU sports doesn‚Äôt offer a lot in the way of excitement, but Dino Babers and company have started working towards the…
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Nelly Cummings, Others Present SU Hoops With Transfer Portal Dilemma
Several weeks removed from Syracuse men‚Äôs hoops‚Äô final game of its 2021-22 season, the focus has shifted almost entirely to the team‚Äôs construction heading into next Fall. On last weekend’s Fizz Five, we touched on basketball a couple times, including a conversation about whether or not SU should dip into the transfer portal again for…
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ESPN’s Thamel: Autry, Not McNamara, Deserves SU Job
With Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball well past its premature 2021-22 finish line and the NCAA Tournament hitting full force today, the end of basketball season is in sight. However, Syracuse basketball‚Äôs constant speculation on the future of its head coach has no such offseason ahead of it. If anything, conversations surrounding head coach Jim Boeheim‚Äôs future…
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Syracuse Hoops May Lose Out On Judah Mintz
For just the third time in the Jim Boeheim era, Syracuse men’s basketball is spending mid-March at home without a postseason tournament to play for. This year, the team’s play kept it out of the tournament instead of NCAA sanctions, and we’ve all had to turn our attention to recruiting a bit earlier than usual.…
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So Long, 2021-22 SU Hoops. We Hardly Knew You.
Nothing quite showcases the highs and lows of a collegiate season quite like a basketball postseason tournament. Of all the teams that have played or will play on this week, Syracuse men’s hoops may best personify the hectic emotional nature of the postseason. After a mostly listless regular season, SU ambushed its first round ACC…
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Saturday’s Meltdown Was One Final Indignity For Exhausted SU
With the ACC Tournament looming tomorrow, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is in the midst of tough times. That may even be an understatement, considering a Jim Boeheim-coached team has never been this bad at the end of a regular season than this year‚Äôs current 15-16 rendition. Even SU‚Äôs last NIT team (the 2016-17 group) wasn‚Äôt in…
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Boeheim’s “Succession Plan” Comments Are Worth A Deeper Dive
With Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball‚Äôs 2021-22 regular season winding down, there‚Äôs not a lot of surprises left. SU knows which teams it‚Äôll face in the ACC tournament‚Äôs first two rounds, knows which of its players are now shut down for the year, and just how many games it needs to win to avoid head coach Jim…
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Is Jim Boeheim Using Jesse Edwards For Cover?
Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball‚Äôs 2021-22 season is almost mercifully over. Last night, Jim Boeheim‚Äôs squad nearly escaped the Dean Smith Center with a rare win, but lost 88-79 to UNC in overtime. The defeat all but certainly means Syracuse will miss postseason play, barring a spectacular and deep ACC Tournament run. If that were to occur,…
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Which Teams Should SU Hope To Draw In The ACC Tournament?
With just three games remaining in its regular season, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is desperately scrapping to try and get into a postseason tournament. Last night, the Orange dropped the first of four straight difficult games against top ACC competition. SU fell in South Bend to Notre Dame 79-69 and has now lost seven of its…
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Benny Williams, Others Show Highly-Touted Freshmen Aren’t Instant Stars
Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is nearing the end of its 2021-22 season, and its upcoming final four regular season games will tell us quite a bit about the team. SU just barely scraped through a four-game stretch against ACC bottom feeders with a bad loss against Virginia Tech and a needlessly close 74-73 overtime win over…
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Syracuse Men’s Hoops Coasts Past Boston College, 76-56
With Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball coming off a stinging 71-59 defeat at Virginia Tech last Saturday, a strong performance against Boston College (9-16, 4-11 ACC) a week later became all the more imperative. In front of over 23,000 fans in the Carrier Dome, Syracuse (14-12, 8-7 ACC) pulled off the feat in convincing fashion 76-56 for…
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Can SU Seal The Deal With 4-Star Judah Mintz?
In the midst of what might be SU‚Äôs worst finish to a basketball season since the Nixon administration, there‚Äôs not a lot left for the Orange to do. Either SU can yank a couple upsets away from ACC rivals in the season‚Äôs waning weeks, or it can spend mid-March at home with no postseason tournament.…
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SU Is At Risk Of Its Worst Sports Year In Decades
As we plod on into mid-February, an oasis would typically be materializing on the horizon. The NCAA men‚Äôs basketball tournament in March would be glimmering in the distance with a shoe-in spot reserved for perennially successful Syracuse. We entered this season expecting the team to race on towards its usual destiny, but things changed. This…
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ESPN’s Lunardi: SU Hoops Could Still Make Tournament
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was published just 13 minutes before Syracuse University formally announced center Jesse Edwards’ season-ending wrist injury. The other day, we wrote that SU‚Äôs next four games were must-wins following the team‚Äôs destruction of Louisville last Saturday. Game number one occurred Tuesday, and the Orange labored to a 73-64 win in Chestnut…
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SU’s Next Four Games Will Determine Its Postseason Fate
We‚Äôre approaching mid-February in Syracuse, so that can only mean one thing. It‚Äôs time to lace up those boots, brave the 20-degree temperatures outside to shovel two feet of snow off your car, and patiently await the selection committee‚Äôs placement of Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball into the NCAA tournament. That‚Äôs (probably) how things go during normal…
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After Hot Streak, SU Hoops’ Near Future Comes Into View
For all intents and purposes, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball’s 2022 tournament hopes ended on the evening of January 25th. It may be hard to find a more embarrassing loss – at least in the ACC – than Syracuse‚Äôs 64-53 clinker against a truly dreadful Pitt program. It wasn‚Äôt the only unfortunate loss on SU‚Äôs record this…
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Syracuse Men’s Hoops Throttles Louisville, 92-69
On January 26th, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball fans woke up with their team‚Äôs pride and record hurt by an embarrassing loss the night before. SU had been favorites over a mediocre Pitt team, but lost 64-53 to mark a new low point in the season. However, all the Orange have done since then is win three…
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The Top Five Most Important Games on SU Football’s 2022 Schedule
With Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball entering a crucial stretch of its schedule and men‚Äôs lacrosse season just 11 days away, you‚Äôre forgiven if yesterday‚Äôs 2022 SU football schedule announcement flew under your radar. Opening day is still seven months away, but let‚Äôs take a way-too-early look at ‚ÄòCuse‚Äôs schedule and dissect which five games Dino Babers‚Äô…
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For One Shining Night, SU Looked Like Who We Thought They Were
It‚Äôs hard to imagine that Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball has gone through any week as whiplash-inducing as the one they just powered through. The Orange played two games this week – on Tuesday and again at home last night – and could not have looked more different from one game to another if they tried. After…
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How Will This Season’s Struggles Impact Next Year’s Recruiting Class?
In case you haven‚Äôt heard, things aren‚Äôt going swimmingly for Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball. The Orange were exposed back in November by Colgate and haven‚Äôt been the same since. Right now, SU‚Äôs 9-10 record and 3-4 mark in the ACC are surprisingly poor figures for a team that entered the year with more fanfare than it…
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SU’s Postseason Path is Simple, But Won’t Be Easy
It‚Äôs come to this. After 19 games, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is rudderless and drifting into unchecked territory. The Orange are 9-10, 3-4 in the ACC, and 2-5 since New Year‚Äôs Day. Last year, SU got all the way to the Sweet Sixteen before its tenth loss of the year. Now, the team is already at…
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Meet SU’s Next Potential Backcourt Star: Aden Holloway
It‚Äôs been a season to forget so far for Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball. The team is struggling in a variety of areas – particularly with its depth and defense – with no reinforcements on the way. The Orange have already lost nearly as many games this year (9) as they did all of last season (10)…
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Could Symir Torrence Provide a Midseason Spark?
Things are getting late early for Syracuse basketball. The Orange are now past the midseason point and just had to choke down another cold cup of coffee in crunchtime, this time in last night‚Äôs 76-71 loss to Florida State. Like some of its other close losses this year, SU looked smooth early before sliding in…
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Is SU Hoops Officially In Decline?
“Rome wasn’t built in a day” is a familiar refrain for any sports fan waiting for a program or team to get back to its feet. Emotional investment in a team involves a lot of waiting for that “Rome” to develop. In very rare instances like Syracuse men’s basketball, that sought-after prosperity and success is…
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Five Things We’ve Learned About SU Hoops At The Season’s Midpoint
After yesterday‚Äôs defeat against Wake Forest, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is officially halfway through its regular season. The team has played 15 games with 15 remaining, and enough time has passed to reflect on what we‚Äôve learned about this group through the first 50% of its schedule. We‚Äôve narrowed it down to five things we‚Äôve learned…
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Jim Boeheim Rips SU’s Struggling Defense: “A Disgrace”
As we all transition into the new year, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is going through the wringer unlike any other time in recent memory. The Orange (7-6, 1-1 ACC) are off to their worst start since the 1969-70 season, and there‚Äôs a multitude of reasons why. The team‚Äôs offense has been top-heavy, its depth is razor…
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The Once-Explosive Orange Have Officially Fizzled. Now What?
Not all that long ago, the 2021-22 Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball team was billed as an exciting, new-look squad. Here at the Fizz, we talked up the team with proclamations that it ‚Äúhad the chance to be special‚Äù and that it was one that would ‚Äúenter ACC play as a ranked team‚Äù. These vestiges of hope…
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SU’s “Bucket Bros” Spark Short-Term Excitement, Long-Term Questions
Seeing Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball on television was a welcome sight last night. The Orange crushed Brown 93-62 thanks mostly to a dominant second half keyed by a ruthless offense that put up 55 points in the final 20 minutes. However, a closer look shows a lot of the work was done by a familiar duo.…
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Virginia’s OC Robert Anae, QB Coach Jason Beck Reportedly Hired By SU
If you‚Äôve been going through Syracuse sports withdrawal over the past few weeks, never fear. The Fizz is here to wish our readers a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season. ‚ÄòCuse sports start up again tomorrow with a men‚Äôs basketball game against Brown, but SU football stirred up some exciting news today. This afternoon, it…
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