Tag: Hoops
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Top 3 Comebacks in Syracuse History Part 3
Imagine Syracuse leads a football game 24-3 heading into halftime. The Orange proceed to get shutout in the second half, but hang on to win 24-21. How do you feel leaving the Dome? SU won, but the elation is absent, because they almost blew it. Comebacks are the opposite. You think it‚Äôs a loss, then…
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Top 3 Comebacks in Syracuse History Part 1
Imagine Syracuse leads a football game 24-3 heading into halftime. The Orange proceed to get shutout in the second half, but hang on to win 24-21. How do you feel leaving the Dome? SU won, but the elation is absent, because they almost blew it. Comebacks are the opposite. You think it’s a loss, then…
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What Will the Syracuse Basketball Rotation Be Next Season?
The timeless tradition of trying to guess Jim Boeheim‚Äôs rotation. A game we play every season and almost seemingly always can‚Äôt get it right. One thing we can count on though is Boeheim will likely play less guys than we think.¬† We went into last year thinking a team led by Jalen Carey at the…
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MAAC ROY Aaron Estrada is Considering Syracuse
Point guard Aaron Estrada has his transfer list narrowed down to three schools, including Syracuse. Estrada spent his freshman season at Saint Peters in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he proved he has the talent for Power-5 basketball. He was the MAAC Conference Rookie of the Year, averaging 8.0 points and 1.8 assists per game.…
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Top 5 Stunning Stats
Stats can be really boring…. unless, of course, they’re surprising. An honorable mention goes to Elijah Hughes’s 19 points per game, which led the ACC. Another to Joe Girard’s 89% free throw conversion rate, which also led the ACC and ranked 10th nationally. We couldn’t have predicted those before the season, but they don’t have…
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Unpopular Opinion: Jim Boeheim was Excellent in 2020
A couple of disclaimers to note before I make an argument that will immediately raise some eyebrows. When Jim Boeheim became the head coach of Syracuse Basketball 44 years ago, nobody cared. He built the expectations himself. It’s important perspective for columns like this. By the current standards, the 2019-20 season was a failure. Syracuse…
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Syracuse Basketball Individual Season Report Cards
Elijah Hughes: A-¬† Hard to believe there were questions going into the season on whether Hughes could take a leap. He has gone from not on any preseason All-ACC teams to an ACC first teamer and the leading scorer in the conference at 18.9 PPG. Hughes has an outside chance to be the first Orange…
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1/13 FizzCast: What Virginia Upset Means
On this edition of the FizzCast, Tim Leonard and Jonathon Hoppe dive into SU’s overtime win against #18 UVA. How did the Orange get it done? What does it mean for the future? What’s next? They answer those questions and more. Check it out!
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New Year’s Resolutions for SU Sports
Happy and healthy New Year from all of us at Orange Fizz! I love this holiday. Anyone who enjoys getting deep, sentimental and introspective shares an infinity for the last day of the year, right? I guess you could be in it for the alcohol too (drink responsibly). For Syracuse Basketball and Football, 2019 was…
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Zero Minutes for Jesse Edwards is Unacceptable
To Jim Boeheim’s credit, he felt compelled to explain his decision to keep freshman center Jesse Edwards on the pine for the entire 40 minutes of SU’s win over North Florida. While Boeheim meandered through multiple topics unrelated to the original reporter’s question, he said this. Jesse has been good in practice. We couldn’t use…
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Opponent Preview: Oakland
Syracuse (5-5) takes on Oakland (5-6) on Wednesday at 8 PM in the Carrier Dome. The game will be televised on ESPNU. This is the start of a three-game stretch of mid-major opponents wraping up non-conference play. Syracuse can’t afford to drop any of them. First up: Oakland. Player to Watch: Xavier Hill-Mais Hill-Mais has…
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Four Reasons Syracuse Lost to Georgetown
A 12-2 Georgetown run at the end of the first half propelled the Hoyas to a 89-79 win over Syracuse at the Capital One Center in Washington, DC. The Hoyas run came directly after a moving screen call on Dolezaj as Hughes hit a would-be three. Besides that crucial sequence, these are four reasons SU…
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Is Syracuse the Youngest Team in the ACC?
Even after quality blowout victories, Jim Boeheim continues to harp on how young this SU team is. College sports often work in cycles. Bad teams are young, good teams are experienced. Once a few years go by and players graduate, the roles are reversed. The team that was young is suddenly seasoned and ready to…
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Defense is the Key to Syracuse’s Success
After a disappointing start to the season, Syracuse was back on track and then slipped again. They won four straight, but now the Orange have lost three in a row. Can they find their groove on both offense and defense again? Losing to Virginia wasn’t ideal, but they still managed to hold the Cavaliers to…
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How to Feel Super Syracuse Festive this Year
If you want to get into the Christmas spirit this year and there’s no bowl game to travel to, there are plenty of ways you can still feel super festive as a Syracuse super fan. We know the end of the football season and a rocky start to hoops means it could be a difficult…
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More Early Season Syracuse Basketball Struggles?
Watching that Oklahoma State dud on Wednesday just felt like watching the same movie again.¬† Since winning the Battle 4 Atlantis in 2016 (no small feat), Syracuse has really struggled in the non-conference portion of the schedule. Honestly, they‚Äôve struggled in every regular season since 2014 (the first year it entered the ACC and went…
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Your Complete Guide to Saturday’s Football/Basketball Doubleheader
We‚Äôre smack dab in the middle of not only the most tumultuous but also one of the most fun times of the year. It‚Äôs the crossover between football and basketball season at Syracuse and even though things are on a big-time down turn for Dino Babers and company and it‚Äôs been a bit of an…
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Three Reasons Colgate Poses a Serious Challenge for Syracuse
It‚Äôs hard to understate just how poorly Syracuse basketball played in its season opener against Virginia last Wednesday. The Orange shot just 24% from the floor and 17% from three in the worst offensive performance the Dome has ever seen from an SU team. That‚Äôs not to mention it was also the worst offensive performance…
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Syracuse Offers Four-Star Western New York Standout
It‚Äôs a little tough to think of many positives for SU basketball after Wednesday‚Äôs season-opening loss to Virginia. Any time you only score 34 points in a home game, even if it‚Äôs against a historically great defense, not many people are going to walk away terribly pleased. But have no fear, Fizz Nation, because a…
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Syracuse Offense Historically Bad in Opener against Virginia
This was never an easy spot for Syracuse or Virginia. It‚Äôs a nice luxury to play some weaker teams at the start of the season in order to feel comfortable and gain confidence. Instead, the Orange and the Cavaliers were thrust into the bright lights and looked thoroughly unprepared. Virginia turned the ball over 10…
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This is Jim Boeheim’s Year
Too much isolation, not enough creative offense! These complaints loomed large throughout the last two seasons with Tyus Battle, Oshae Brissett and Frank Howard at the core. The offense was truly stagnant with the trio. The 2017 sweet 16 run was on the shoulders of outstanding defense. They never meshed offensively. Sure, Jim Boeheim can…
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Syracuse’s Most Important Players: #1 Elijah Hughes
For two straight seasons, Syracuse looked to Tyus Battle in their most desperate moments. Shot clock winding down? Game on the line? Battle was the answer. Jim Boeheim said Battle made possibly more big shots than anyone he’s ever coached. This season, Elijah Hughes needs to fill that void. He needs to be the hero…
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Kadary Richmond Saga Continues, Four-Star Guard Sets Official Visit Date
On Friday, October 11th, all of the focus surrounding Syracuse basketball was centered on the Melo Center. Both the men‚Äôs and women‚Äôs teams were hosting media day and media members and fans alike were getting their first look and listen into what the Orange have in store for the 2019-20 season. At least that was…
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Syracuse’s Most Important Players: #5 Quincy Guerrier
Quincy Guerrier isn‚Äôt the highest-rated recruit in this ambiguous incoming freshman class for Syracuse. Brycen Goodine owns that title. Guerrier isn‚Äôt the most-hyped recruit in this five person class. That belongs to Joe Girard and his laundry list of NY state records. However, Guerrier has the highest ceiling this year of anyone in this class. …
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Three Reasons why Isaiah Jackson would Pick Syracuse
5-star recruit Isaiah Jackson has the Orange in his top three. He is ESPN’s #22 ranked recruit in the class of 2020. 247sports.com has the Michigan native at #25. It’s been a while since the Orange has landed a recruit as coveted as Jackson. Darius Bazely would qualify, but in order to find a similar…
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Carmelo Anthony Breaks Silence on NBA Career
Last season, Syracuse’s 2003 national champion Carmelo Anthony was cut from the Houston Rockets. He was not picked up by any of the other 29 NBA teams for the remainder of the season, and as free agency reaches its latter stages in 2019 Anthony remains unsigned. Throughout this period of a Carmelo-less NBA, the ten-time…
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Three Takeaways from Boeheim’s Army Narrow Round One Win
Nobody thought it would come down to one shot. We Are D3, ranked 68th in The Basketball Tournament field of 68 by an ESPN article, nearly ended Boeheim’s Army’s run in the first round. A Jordan Crawford walk-off free throw closed a 68-65 victory for the home favorites. What was expected to be a homecoming…
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Elite four-star Syracuse target set to make decision Tuesday
With Oshae Brissett‚Äôs decision to head to leave school and keep his name in the NBA Draft, Syracuse all of a sudden has a scholarship available for the next few years that it didn‚Äôt look like they‚Äôd have the opportunity to fill. The 2019 class is essentially set in stone at this point and with…
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Syracuse offers 2021 five-star small forward Quincy Allen
The 2019 class is seemingly set in stone. Jim Boeheim is starting to make hard pushes for top-level guys in the class of 2020. And now Syracuse has started to turn at least some of its attention to building up its 2021 class. Just about a month after Boeheim and Gerry McNamara took a visit…
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Tyus Battle Spurned by NBA Draft Combine
Exactly one year and two days ago, we were talking about what Tyus Battle had to prove at the NBA Draft combine, who he had to outperform and how his prospects looked after the combine was over. We won‚Äôt be talking about any of that this year. Battle and the rest of the college basketball/NBA…
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Jim Boeheim Takes Home Visit with 2020 Four-Star Guard
Barring any major surprises, it looks like Jim Boeheim‚Äôs 2019 recruiting class is officially filled out after center Jesse Edwards officially signed his NLI on Monday. There‚Äôs a lot to look forward to as that class gets set to arrive in Syracuse in just a few months. With that being said, however, it‚Äôs about that…
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Syracuse’s Best Moments in Years of the Tiger
‚ÄúThe Return to Glory‚Äù Believe it or not, that‚Äôs not what was said when Syracuse football capped its off its first 10-win season since 2001 in December with a win over West Virginia in the Camping World Bowl. It was said, however, when Eldrick Tont Woods sank a bogey putt on the 18th hole at…
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West Coast Bias?: Syracuse basketball’s success west of the central time zone
Eight cities across the country are getting set to host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament this weekend. Only two of them lie further west than the central time zone: San Jose, CA and Salt Lake City, UT. Both of those locations are more than 2,000 miles away from Syracuse, but because of…
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The #1 Key for SU’s Tournament Success
This Syracuse team is not perfect. Point guard play has been inconsistent, although trending in the right direction. The bigs barely contribute offensively. Free throw shooting has been abysmal. Three point shooting hasn’t improved as much as we thought it would by adding Buddy Boeheim and Elijah Hughes. And Syracuse still gives up an alarming…
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Syracuse’s Odds to Win ACC Tournament
Considering Syracuse’s history in the ACC Tournament, Jim Boehiem’s team shouldn’t be thinking about winning the whole thing. Beating Pittsburgh on Wednesday night would suffice, and probably let SU fans breathe easy on Selection Sunday. But the Orange are the 7th betting favorite (+5000) to win the ACC Tournament in Charlotte, so it’s not completely…
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Previewing the ACC Tournament and Syracuse’s Path to a Conference Title
Well, that‚Äôs certainly not the end to the regular season we envisioned or the result SU was looking for. Blowing yet another halftime lead and dropping the final game of the regular season to Clemson probably wasn‚Äôt what Jim Boeheim had drawn up to improve the Orange‚Äôs NCAA Tournament resume, but the season is far…
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