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4 Bold Predictions for the SU Basketball Season
1: Frank Howard is going to have a very solid season Howard was given the keys to the Syracuse offense as a sophomore last season and frankly never got the car started. However, it‚Äôs important to remember he was still very young last year. Sometimes we put these college kids on a pedestal and forgot…
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3 SU Basketball Newcomers to Know
While everyone is still hung up on the SU football win over then #2 Clemson a few weeks ago, people are seemingly forgetful of the fact that basketball season is quickly approaching on the SU campus. Jim Boeheim and company open up their exhibition slate with a matchup versus Southern New Hampshire in the Carrier…
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Who could SU basketball use its remaining scholarships on (even if it won’t)?
With Nate Roberts‚Äô commitment of to Washington last week, the book on Syracuse‚Äôs 2018 recruiting class is most likely closed. The Orange has commitments from Darius Bazley, Jalen Carey and Buddy Boeheim, but still has two available scholarships to give. It‚Äôs unlikely any of them will choose Syracuse, but SU does have 2018 scholarships offered…
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The Path to a Bowl: Where Does Syracuse Stand After the Miami Loss?
Sports are a fickle thing, particularly at the college level. After Syracuse’s loss to Middle Tennessee State, the Orange’s hopes of a bowl game were kaput. Just a few weeks later, Syracuse was flying high following a massive upset win over Clemson, the defending National Champions. Now, Syracuse is somewhere in between following a narrow…
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FizzCast: Recapping Syracuse’s Loss At Miami
JD Raucci and Tim Leonard give initial reactions to SU’s loss at Miami Saturday, breakdown what this all means and preview the rest of Syracuse’s season.
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3 Takeaways From Orange Vs. White Game
The 2017-18 Syracuse basketball season kinda, sorta officially got under way last night with an intrasquad Orange vs. White scrimmage in the Carrier Dome. It‚Äôs still early and SU clearly wasn‚Äôt going a full 100 percent last night but there were a few things that stood out or are at the very least worth monitoring…
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10/21 Fizz Radio: Previewing Miami and Hoops Talk
In this week’s episode, Nathan Dickinson and Drew Carter breakdown the Orange’s quest to pull of consecutive top 10 wins for the first time in program history, and chat with the newest member of SU basketball’s Class of 2018.
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The Fizz Predicts Syracuse and #8 Miami
We didn’t raise our hands when Eric Dungey asked how many people picked Syracuse to win last week. The Fizz is coming off an 0-8 performance in last week’s picks against Clemson, but that certainly makes Orange fans happy. Here’s how the staff thinks the Orange will fare in this week’s matchup against the Hurricanes:…
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Why The Weather Hurts Syracuse More Than Miami This Weekend
Remember last year‚Äôs loss against Wake Forest? This game could feel eerily similar. Syracuse travels into the tropics this weekend to face No. 8 Miami and with it comes the seasonal South Beach storms. I‚Äôm no meteorologist, but currently, The Weather Channel is calling for scattered thunderstorms for the entire game with around a 50…
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FizzCast: Syracuse Travels to Miami Looking To Pull Off Consecutive Top 10 Wins
David Edelstein and Jonathon Hoppe break down the Orange’s odds of pulling off back-to-back top-10 unbelievable upsets as Syracuse travels down south to take on Miami.
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The Next Step for SU Football
Over the past two seasons, Syracuse football has had a pair of big time wins in the Carrier Dome. Beating #17 Virginia Tech and stunning #2 Clemson were great victories for SU, but there is still a long way to go in the rebuild process. As Dino Babers often says, his team is trying to…
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Meeting Miami: Three players to watch for the Hurricanes on Saturday
After an incredible upset of #2 Clemson last week gave Syracuse one of its most important wins in program history and put it over .500, the Orange is back in action this Saturday and another tough opponent is staring it in the face. SU heads south for a date with the #8 Miami Hurricanes on…
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Syracuse WR Steve Ishmael Named 2nd Team Mid-Season All-American
When Dino Babers took over the head coaching job from Scott Shafer, he promised to bring a fast and exciting offense to the Carrier Dome. He brought with I’m a history of working on high-powered offense with great quarterbacks and even better wide receivers. At his first National Signing Day press conference as head coach,…
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Class of 2018 PG Brendan Paul commits to Syracuse as preferred walk-on
In what has already been an impressive recruiting class with the likes of Darius Bazley and Jalen Carey heading to the Hill, Syracuse basketball picked up another commitment in the class of 2018 on Tuesday. Point guard Brendan Paul announced his decision on Tuesday afternoon via his Twitter account: Paul is currently in a post-grad…
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Where Does Syracuse’s Upset of Clemson Rank All-Time?
Friday night was a moment in Syracuse history which won’t be forgotten in a long time. It was one of the best SU sports moments in recent memory. It may very well be the flashpoint of the next great era of SU football. Many old school SU fans were taken back to the day inside…
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Three Things You Might Have Missed In Syracuse’s Win Over Clemson
We all know the result. We all heard the roar of the Loud House when the clock struck triple zeros. And of course, we all saw the field storming. If you haven‚Äôt at this point, you‚Äôve been living under a rock. However, there were a lot of forgotten elements as well as unseen moments that…
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FWAA names Syracuse National Team of the Week
The Football Writers’ Association of America named Syracuse its National Team of the Week Tuesday after SU’s upset of then-No. 2 Clemson Friday. It is the second time the Orange has been given the honor, and the first since 2004 when Syracuse upset No. 17 Boston College in its last Big East game. The win…
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How does SU’s upset over Clemson affect recruiting?
SU‚Äôs astounding victory over Clemson on Friday night had every single ingredient that a great upset needs. It came out of nowhere. It was a dominant effort (SU never trailed in the game). It saw one of SU‚Äôs most maligned units step up. It was a home victory in front of the largest crowd of…
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Top 10 Syracuse Victories of The Past Five Years
The SU football and basketball programs have been filled with ups and downs the past five years. However, the ups have been incredibly high and Friday night was another example of that. So it got me thinking, where does Friday night rank among the best SU wins in the past five years? After some digging,…
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Biggest Surprise in SU’s 27-24 Win Over Clemson
Before Syracuse‚Äôs matchup with Clemson, all the talk was about the elite Tigers defense. Many expected the Orange to struggle to move the ball and put points on the board. As we all know, that didn‚Äôt pan out so well. Syracuse posted 27 points on the Tigers, the most points Clemson has allowed so far…
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My Apologies: We Were Wrong About Syracuse
After the Syracuse football upset of No. 2 Clemson Friday night, I think ‚Äúsorry, but we got it wrong‚Äù is something a lot of sports writers are saying (or maybe just thinking and not actually saying, though, because we like to be right and try to be right for our readers). But all bets…
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3 Takeaways From SU’s Shocking Victory Over Clemson
Dino Babers is very good at his job After an up and down start to his second year at SU, Babers coached a near-perfect game Friday night. The SU head man came out with a gameplan that got everyone involved against Clemson. He mixed up the run and pass beautifully. And, more importantly, he got…
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What Are Syracuse Commits Saying About The Clemson Upset?
Monumental. Program changing. David slays Goliath. Whatever your upset phrase of choice is, it probably worked to describe Syracuse‚Äôs unthinkable win over No. 2 Clemson on Friday night. While the entirety of Central New York and Orange Nation was rocking after the upset, the incoming Class of 2018 commits are just as giddy. Here‚Äôs the…
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Emergency FizzCast: Breaking Down Syracuse’s Monumental Upset of Clemson
After Syracuse’s massive upset over #2 Clemson, Tyler Aki and Jonathon Hoppe discuss how exactly it happened and what it means.
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Dungey shines and Syracuse shocks Clemson in 27-24 upset
Syracuse fans came into Friday night‚Äôs tilt with No. 2 Clemson with no reason to believe SU would win. The Orange was shutout and lost by more than 50 last season to Clemson in Death Valley, and through five weeks SU hadn‚Äôt given the fans much reason to think this time around would be different.…
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Friday the 13th: Cuse Shocks Clemson, Nabs Program Defining Win
Dino Babers has spoken the words since the day he’s walked into town. It’s at times been hard to believe. The Syracuse head coach has said the program will eventually notch the big victories that define winning schools. He finally made good on that promise. In fact, he’s now made good on that promise twice.…
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The Fizz Predicts Syracuse and #2 Clemson
Logan Grossman (4-2): Clemson 45 Syracuse 14 We have talked all week about what Syracuse has to do to pull off a miracle win. When it comes down to it, a Syracuse win would be just that, a miracle. Clemson has proven once again to be National Championship contenders and have displayed no real weaknesses…
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What You Need to Know Ahead of Syracuse-Clemson
The Orange face what is undisputably their biggest test of the season when the defending National Champions come to the Hill Friday night. Syracuse put together a complete performance to beat Pitt last week but will need to take everything to the highest possible gear to have a shot against the Tigers. Below is a…
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Tabs on the Tigers: 4 Clemson players to watch on Friday
SU football picked up its first ACC win of the season and its first win over Pitt since 2012 last week in an ugly 27-24 victory inside the Carrier Dome. The Orange‚Äôs week 7 opponent is another feline foe, but this one is a whole different cat. The Clemson Tigers head to Central New York…
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FizzCast: Syracuse vs Clemson Preview
With half the Syracuse football season in the books,¬† Tim Leonard and Jonathon Hoppe breakdown SU’s rollercoaster start and analyze this weeks matchup against undefeated Clemson.
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How Much Better is SU Since it Last Played Clemson?
It‚Äôs mid-October, which means Syracuse is in the middle of another daunting ACC schedule. I don‚Äôt know about you, but when SU plays teams like Clemson, I think a lot about the big picture. Other than the colors of their uniforms, there aren‚Äôt many similarities between these two programs.¬†How is it possible that there‚Äôs such…
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Why Syracuse is Coming Off Its Best Performance of the Season
It may not jump off of the page when someone scans Syracuse’s schedule and sees that they squeaked by the Pittsburgh Panthers at home on October 7. However, what the scoreline may not tell you is that it was actually Syracuse’s best and most complete game that they have played this season and one of…
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How Syracuse Beats Clemson
Does Syracuse have a chance against Clemson? Well, on paper, it might not seem so. Syracuse has lost every regular season game against Clemson ever. The only victory SU has over the Tigers came in the Gator Bowl on New Year‚Äôs Day in 1996 when the Orange walked away with a 41-0 W in Jacksonville,…
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What Should Syracuse Expect If Kelly Bryant Doesn’t Play?
Clemson quarterback Kelly Bryant left last week‚Äôs game against Wake Forest with an ankle injury. While Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney is optimistic his signal caller will play this Friday against Syracuse, there still are no guarantees. Clemson is traveling on a short week and coming in to face a much more inferior opponent. There‚Äôs…
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Does Clemson have any weaknesses?
It’s no secret that just about everyone on the Orange roster is going to have to play the game of his life Saturday if Syracuse is going to beat Clemson in the Carrier Dome. The Tigers are bigger, faster, and the reigning national champs. SU has to be on its A-game, but Clemson will probably…
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Syracuse Needs to Use Moe Neal More
Syracuse finally showed some semblance of a running game this past Saturday and Dontae Strickland had the game we had all been waiting for. The junior was the focal point of the offense on the last drive and racked up a season-high 80 yards. However, while Strickland stepped up, fellow tailback Moe Neal could do…
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