Tag: Jim Boeheim
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Fizz Report Card: Syracuse Falls Apart In Regular Season Finale
There is no other way this season should have ended than what happened in the Dome on Saturday. Syracuse led by eleven over Miami at halftime. In the second half, that got extended to an 18 point advantage. Then, the Orange did what they do best and fall apart, losing 75-72 to the Hurricanes. With…
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Fizz Five 3/4: Conference Champs & Retirement Plans
Jaron May and Matt Bonaparte host the very first Fizz Five. The new podcast highlights the five biggest SU sports stories over the past week. On this episode, the guys discuss women’s ice hockey winning the CHA championship, men’s lacrosse struggling, Boeheim’s retirement plans, and more. You can listen to Fizz Five every Friday. Be…
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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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Three Keys for Syracuse to End the Regular Season on a High Note
Look, it’s no secret this season has been a rough one for Syracuse hoops. The Orange have floundered left and right, dropping the biggest game of the year by almost 30 points, losing multiple conference clunkers and playing themselves out of tournament contention. Jim Boeheim had to announce his plans yesterday, as the haters and…
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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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Coaching Options in the Post Boeheim Era
Jim Boeheim is in his 46th season of coaching. With over 1000 losses doled out, he‚Äôs one of the greatest to ever do it, no doubt about it. Though all good things come to an end, and it‚Äôs quite possible the hall of famer‚Äôs reign will come to a close soon. So, who should succeed…
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Syracuse’s Blowout Loss to Duke is the Final Humiliation for a Limping Program
The season from hell walked right up to the Gates of Hades and asked the Devil to punch it in the face. The Devil, smiling in his red cape and holding that flaming pitchfork, obliged. He looks an awful lot like that Duke mascot, to be honest. Syracuse’s ever-collapsing ’21-’22 continued to splinter with an…
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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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What Does Syracuse Have to Play For?
Regardless of what this team does in the remaining five regular season games, they probably won’t make the NCAA Tournament, they might not make the NIT, and in all likelihood won’t go far in the ACC Tournament either. But, that doesn’t mean that this is a completely lost season. It doesn’t mean there’s no longer…
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Bracketology – Syracuse Not Projected to Even Make the NIT
Syracuse basketball isn‚Äôt having its best season, to say the least. The Orange sit at just 14-12 with five games remaining. According to KenPom, they are expected to lose three of them, but it could very well be four or even five. It‚Äôs officially not a bold take to say SU will need to run…
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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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Did Emoni Bates’ Dad Sink the Best Prep Star of the Decade?
There is no debate that Emoni Bates’ much-anticipated college career has been wildly underwhelming. The prep star with an SI cover story at just 15-years old is now just a bystander as Memphis has turned around its season without him. Bates has a supposed back issue that has kept him out of the lineup (or…
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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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Chris Bunch Skyrockets Up Recruit Rankings, Insiders See Star
It’s hard to jump from a top 200 recruit to a top 100. It’s even harder to jump from unranked to top 60, but that’s exactly what has happened to Syracuse commit Chris Bunch. While this season has proven painful for plenty of SU fans, next year’s class provides the hope of renewed excellence. The…
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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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Did Syracuse’s Win over NC State Recharge the Offense?
We know Syracuse’s defense is a problem, and one that won’t be fixed this season. We’re into February, just a month away from the ACC Tournament, and the zone is what the zone is. Unfortunately, it’s filled with guys who aren’t fast enough to their spots, nor rangy enough to play great defense once they…
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Syracuse Basketball’s Possible Cherry On Top – Judah Mintz
Yes, Syracuse basketball just had a massive win over Wake Forest, but this season has been underwhelming to say the least. The Orange need a reboot. There are rumors and more people pleading for Jim Boeheim to retire. Plus, a stacked recruiting class coming in. Syracuse already has five players committed in the recruiting class…
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