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Here’s Why Syracuse Basketball Missed the 2017 NCAA Tournament
Short and to the point. That‚Äôs how the selection show for the 2017 NCAA Tournament Bracket went, that‚Äôs how Coach Jim Boeheim was in the post-selection press conference and that‚Äôs how news like this has to be. Syracuse is not in the 2017 NCAA Tournament. That‚Äôs it. Now we know. And it turns out, that‚Äôs…
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White Named Third Team All-ACC, Lydon Left Out
Yesterday, the ACC announced its all-conference teams for the 2016-17 season as well as Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year,¬† Coach of the Year and more. ACC Player of the Year went to UNC’s Justin Jackson, and Duke’s Luke Kennard was the only unanimous All-ACC selection. SU’s Andrew White III was named…
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Watch the Phone Footage from Syracuse Fans of the Shot That Beat Duke
The series of camera phone footage from last night’s incredible buzzer beater is phenomenal. It made it’s way throughout SportsCenter and circulated around social media all night/day. Personally, I can’t get enough of it. Whether this enough to lock in SU to the field of 68 is another argument, but for now watching this over…
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Three Crucial Elements of Sunday’s Matchup Against Georgia Tech
It‚Äôs coming down to the wire. There are only four games left in the regular season. With Syracuse’s NCAA Tournament chances on the line, Georgia Tech makes up half of SU‚Äôs remaining schedule. The first of two times the Orange and the Yellow Jackets will meet is this Sunday in Atlanta. Here are three crucial…
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Syracuse falls to No. 8 Louisville, 76-72, in Overtime Heartbreaker
Even Tinkerbell runs out of pixie dust. In a marquee Monday night matchup that drew more than 25,000 fans to the Carrier Dome, Syracuse picked up its slingshot and took aim at another Goliath. A win over Louisville would have been the Orange‚Äôs third over a top-10 team this season ‚Äî a season that looked…
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Previewing Pitt: What the Orange Should Know Before Saturday’s Game
Still on a high from Tyus Battle‚Äôs game-winning, buzzer-beater, three-point shot that secured the win for Syracuse over Clemson on Tuesday night, the Orange is once again looking like its old self. Now on a five-game win streak, SU’s tournament hopes are back in conversation. But before we get carried away in the moment, let‚Äôs…
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How Syracuse Basketball Can Beat Virginia Tech
The Syracuse and Virginia Tech basketball teams are having two completely different seasons. But, tonight, the Orange and the Hokies share the same court. Here are three things Syracuse can do to increase its chances of getting its first road ACC win this year: Play the Usual Zone Defense, but Stay Closer to Each Man…
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Finding Ten Conference Wins For Syracuse Basketball
Rick Pitino remembers the good’ ole days of the Old Big East. When his Louisville Cardinals won the league in 2011 the Big East set a record with 11 bids in the NCAA Tournament, but Pitino thinks this year might be the one to break that record. It’s easy to speculate when you’re coaching a…
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Syracuse Basketball Upsets Miami to Pick Up Its First ACC Win
Regardless of the struggles Syracuse fans have been groaning about for the first half of this season, the Orange got it done tonight with a 70-55 win against Miami. While pregame hopes seemed simply to wish that SU would make it out of the Carrier Dome alive tonight, postgame conversation now turns to how Syracuse…
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Can Syracuse Exploit Miami’s Weaknesses and Manufacture an Upset?
Syracuse‚Äôs trainwreck of a men‚Äôs basketball season rumbles along the tracks of despair. Up next on the route: a loss to Miami (FL) on Wednesday night in the Carrier Dome. Ok, maybe it‚Äôs unfair to chalk this one up as an L already, but the Orange has done nothing to inspire even a shred of…
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It’s A Numbers Game: How Did Syracuse’s Non-Con Performance Stack Up With The Rest Of The ACC?
To start this post as every post on this website has started for the past week, Syracuse basketball is not playing well. Jim Boeheim once called this team one of the best he’s ever had, but the Orange will now need a dominant performance in the ACC if it wants an at-large bid to the…
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How Is the ACC Faring in Nonconference Play?
Jim Boeheim has provided several memorable quotes during his four-plus-decade tenure as head coach of the Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball team (‚Äúdumb question,‚Äù most recently), but none quite as famous as one from the late Dennis Green: ‚ÄúThey are who we thought they were!‚Äù The football coach was referring to the 2006 Chicago Bears, who had…
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Key to Syracuse vs. Wake Forest: Red Zone
Dave Clawson is a man of routine. Wake Forest’s 49-year-old head coach¬†helmed three programs before taking over the Demon Deacons, and each of his teams has followed a similar path: flounder for the first two years under Clawson‚Äôs tutelage, gain respectability and compete for a bowl in his third season, then drastically improve in year…
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Will The ACC Network Kill Syracuse Basketball Rivalries?
The new network means less Big East games for the Orange.
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New Syracuse AD Wildhack Comments on Football Scheduling
SU must walk the fine line between marquee matchups and winnable games.
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Projecting Syracuse in the 2016-17 ACC Hoops Standings
Can the Orange earn a bye in the conference tournament?
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Can the ACC/B1G Challenge Help Stir Early College Hoops Interest?
There’s been an emphasis in recent years to create big matchups and stir interest in regular season college basketball. What NCAA and television execs are worried about is the growing reliance on March as the power point for the entire season. The term “one-month sport” has been used derisively at times to describe the dynamic…
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Syracuse Basketball 50-1 To Win It All Next Season
Syracuse has the 20th best odds to cut down the nets.
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Will Syracuse Hoops Be A Holiday Gift or Straight to the Return Bin?
Syracuse basketball is off and running, and it’s still far too early to say how dangerous the Orange will be in March. Wins like the effort against St. Bonaventure and Elon prove just how wide the spectrum is on what the eventual destiny could be on this season. There’s no doubt SU has far superior…
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Rob Trudo Named to Rimington Watch List
Rob Trudo is the starting Center for the Orange for 2015 and before has played a down, he is being recognized.
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Is Shafer Deserving of His Harsh Ranking?
Scott Shafer was ranked as the 13th best coach in the ACC by Sports News.
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NCAA Grants Orange DE Luke Arciniega Two Years of Eligibility
The NCAA does not usually hand out too much good news, but it did for LB Luke Arciniega who recently found out he will be granted 2 additional years of college eligibility. On his Instagram, Arciniega said ‚ÄúCollege career hasn‚Äôt gone as planned with all the injuries but patience and faith has kept me on…
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New Orange Jersey’s a Lose-Lose for Syracuse Football
Last year when the football jerseys were revealed, there were cries along the lines of ‚ÄúWhere‚Äôs the Orange??‚Äù Many fans, myself included, were disappointed by the uniforms that were revealed last April. Why did the numbers look this way? Why is there a gray option? Why revamp the jerseys? Those are the kind of questions…
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Familiar Faces to Appear in the Dome in Sweet Sixteen
This weekend, the Carrier Dome certainly will not be rocking with the Orange that Central New Yorkers have become accustomed to since it opened in 1980.¬† Instead, four teams will be playing for a right to travel to Indianapolis, and two of the four teams are very familiar foes. On Friday, Rick Pitino and the…
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Syracuse Recruit Marquise Blair Needs To Make the Grade To Qualify
Marquise Blair could have the opportunity to get some playing time as a freshman, if he can get his grades up.¬† Doug Haas, Blair‚Äôs high school football coach, said the safety needs to keep a B average in his last semester at Wooster High School in Ohio to play for the Orange next year, according…
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Men’s Basketball Will Look Much Different As Boeheim’s Time Ticks Down
Jim Boeheim is taking the NCAA infractions very seriously, as he should. The Syracuse basketball program has been an image not only of Central New York, but college basketball across the country. It has a long history of success during the regular season, but often coming up a little short in the NCAA tournament. The…
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Syracuse Loses B.J. Johnson and Ron Patterson To Transfer
The two sophomores won’t wear orange next season.
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Four-leaf Clover: 4 New Jersey recruits to visit for Orange Spring Game
Syracuse is looking to get lucky and strike gold this upcoming spring when 2016 recruits will be visiting the Hill for the spring game, April 4th. The Orange has four recruits on the radar from the state of New Jersey who have already planned on attending the spring game with more possibly on the way…
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Orange Women To Play Nebraska in First Round of NCAA Tournament
2014-15 marks the third straight year the Orange go dancing.
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Syracuse Spring Practice: Two Key Areas Need Some Work
For the SU football team, spring practice has been underway despite the school being under the spotlight for NCAA sanctions that were dropped last Friday. While the team and the school is currently on spring break, there are two key areas on the team that should be looked. The first impact area that needs work…
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Dickinson: Syracuse Gets Off Easy with NCAA
Since the NCAA‚Äôs sanctions were released on Friday, my fellow Fizz writers have wasted no time in bringing you the facts, their opinions, and speculation (see here, here, and here). Now it‚Äôs my turn: I don‚Äôt think it‚Äôs nearly as bad as what everyone‚Äôs making it to be. The program hasn‚Äôt been crippled, there‚Äôs no…
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Syracuse’s Perfect Start Begins With Ben Williams
When trying to analyze a lacrosse team‚Äôs statistics the first place one should look is to face-offs.¬† Having possession of the ball is so critical in lacrosse that face-offs can separate the good teams from the great teams.¬† The Orange have been propelled to the number one ranking in the country due, in large part,…
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Boeheim Made A Mistake Not Speaking to the Media
When Syracuse hit the court for its final game of the season on Saturday morning, nobody was tuning in for the team‚Äôs performance on the floor.¬† The season essentially ended during the team‚Äôs final home game against Virginia before the NCAA ruling was released. However, with the hammer being dropped on the program on Friday…
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2014-15 Wasn’t a Lost Season for Syracuse Hoops
The Orange grew as a team and played hard to the very end despite ban and limited numbers.
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The End of an Era: Christmas says Goodbye to the Carrier Dome
The Philadelphia native came a long way in four years in Orange.
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In Rak’s Final Syracuse Home Game, Offense Sputters to 12-point Loss
The senior center struggled against Virginia’s physical double-team.
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