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What is the 2-3 Zone’s Real Weakness?
How do you beat the Syracuse zone? It’s an age old question. Actually, it’s a 23 year old question. Head Coach Jim Boeheim switched to a permanent 2-3 zone in 1996. Regardless, every time an opposing team slices up the zone, it is hereby declared that they “figured out how to beat the zone.” It’s…
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Bedeviled: Barrett’s Monster Night Silences Record-Crowd at the Dome
The lights were bright here inside the Dome, and college basketball was watching to see how Syracuse would respond after an emotional week. A nationally televised audience also tuned into see how top-ranked Duke would react without Zion Williamson. In the end, the Blue Devils reacted better – mostly from an enormous night from lottery…
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Takeaways from SU’s Blowout Loss to NC State
Syracuse dropped to 8-4 in the ACC game on Wednesday, and all four have been double-digit defeats. NC State eat the Orange 73-58. Positive takeaways are hard to come by. Shot Selection There’s no stat for bad shot selection, but this game featured some of the worst shots you’ll see. Frank Howard had a hot…
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Complete Guide to SU Football’s 2019 Class
Syracuse added four signees on National Signing Day, rounding off the class at 21 players. For details on the new commits, check out this piece. Time to break down the 2019 class in full. By Position: Defense: 13 Six DLs ¬†Four DBs Three LBs Offense: 8 Three OLs Two RBs One QB One TE One…
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SU Dominated by Nightmare Matchup Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech is the best three-pointing team in the ACC. Four of their five starters can hit from deep with regularity. But they don’t just play on the perimeter. They know how to work the high post, cut back door, find open kick outs and make the extra pass. It all materializes in an ACC-best…
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Chances Tyus Battle Returns to Syracuse Next Season
On May 30, 2018, Tyus Battle announced he was coming back to Syracuse for his junior season, for another year playing with what promised (or not) to be a stacked team (with Darius Bazley). Given Syracuse fan’s experiences with Tyler Lydon and Malachi Richardson in the two years prior, Battle coming back felt like a…
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Which Numbers Determine If SU Beats West Virginia at Camping World Bowl
SU feels like a football school this year, and the Camping World Bowl is fast approaching.¬† It’s an occasion that calls for the deep statistical dive of a lifetime. Our twelve game sample size has shown some numbers to be awfully important in SU’s success, and others not so much. When Syracuse faces West Virginia…
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Reactions: SU Basketball Falls to Buffalo in 2nd Half Collapse
Syracuse dropped its fourth non-conference game of the season on Tuesday, 71-59 to the Buffalo Bulls. It’s the first time that Syracuse has dropped two straight non-conference games at home in program history. So people are upset. Reactions are happening. Let’s sort out the overreactions from the fair reactions. This was a bad loss‚Ķ No‚Ķ…
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Joe Girard III Is Leading Country In Scoring
Syracuse Class of 2019 commit Joe Girard III is picking up where he left off, putting up absurdly astronomical numbers for Glens Falls Basketball. Syracuse commit @JG3_____ scores 57 points for @GFSDathletics Tuesday night. 🍊 Girard is now leading the country with 46.3 PPG through his first four games.#BeDifferent (Via @GFSDathletics ) pic.twitter.com/kCYn24bBzc — MaxPreps…
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Syracuse Lands Four-Star Linebacker Lee Kpogba
What? Dino Babers has his signature recruit for the 2019 class. Who? Lee Kpogba is a three-star on 247Sports.com but a four-star and the 6th ranked outside linebacker in the country by Rivals.com. He’s 6′ 2″ 210 lbs. out of Winston Salem, North Carolina. Florida State, Duke and Tennessee were among his offers. Kpogba was…
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The Painful Truth About SU’s Loss to Oregon
Syracuse didn’t lose to 80-65 to Oregon on Friday at MSG due to bad coaching or mental errors. Defensively, the Orange big men got out-muscled inside. Offensively, the Orange couldn’t make an open jumpshot. It would be much easier to blame such a harrowing loss, the second of the week, on something that seemed more…
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Five Things That Went Wrong in SU’s Loss to UConn
Connecticut outplayed Syracuse from the jump on Thursday at Madison Square Garden. The 83-76 loss is Syracuse’s first of the season (2-1). Not a lot went right outside of Jalen Carey’s scoring. These five things went wrong. 1. Assists Carey’s 26 points was the only reason Syracuse stayed in the game. But he finished with…
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SU’s Season Doesn’t Start Until Frank Howard Plays
It’s Syracuse’s first “test” of the season. You’re going to hear that said a lot tonight, as the Orange (2-0) take on Uconn (2-0) at MSG. Tests are great. They’re supposed to show how good a team really is, something we’re all dying to know about Syracuse. We know this team is really strong on…
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Battle Breaks Out Of Slump In Win Over Morehead State
Tyus Battle was 0-6 from the field at one point, visibly frustrated with each miss. Including the exhibitions, the Orange’s leading scorer from a season ago was a combined 7-35 on the season. It wasn’t actually concerning, but it was certainly getting weird. By the end of the first half on Saturday, Battle began to…
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Will Syracuse Cruise Past Louisville?
It may be a necessary change of pace for Syracuse on Friday. If you think about it, the last five games for the Orange have been pretty hectic. First, SU dropped two close road games in Clemson, and a shocker¬†in Pittsburgh. After that, the Orange came home for 1-4 North Carolina, but just barely escaped…
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Can SU Football Crack the Top 10 Next Week?
As we saw last week, Syracuse’s movement in the CFP Rankings has a lot to do with what teams do around it. Last week, the Orange moved up six spots from 19 to 13 after beating Wake Forest on the road.¬†SU leapfrogged Texas, Iowa, Utah, Penn State and Florida who somehow all lost their week…
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Film Breakdown: Does SU Have a Breakout Star Defensive Back?
Syracuse’s narrow victory over North Carolina last week left us with a lot to unpack. For example, who is the starting quarterback now? Kind of a big deal, no? In a less eventful week, more people would be talking about Ifeatu Melifonwu. The redshirt freshman cornerback’s number was called after Christopher Fredrick exited with an…
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Mid-season SU Football MVP Power Rankings
Syracuse is 4-2 going into the bye week. There were ups, there were downs, but these 11 players deserve high praise for their first halves to the season. 1. Eric Dungey Last week at Pitt was a sub-par from Dungey. But when a bad week is leading your team to 37 points on the road,…
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Three reasons the Boston College game is crucial to SU’s tournament chances
Last season we saw Syracuse basketball finish as one of the first four out of the NCAA tournament and one of the biggest reasons was because it had some atrocious losses on its resume. Sure, SU was able to knock off the likes of Duke, Virginia and Florida State during the season, but it also…
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Dino Babers Faces his Toughest Challenge Yet with Syracuse Football
Let the music play, get the fog machine ready and prepare to blow the horn in the Carrier Dome! Tomorrow is opening day for Syracuse football 2017. And while there is a lot of excitement and anticipation in the air for a Syracuse team that looks to build on its new ‚ÄúOrange is the new…
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Was The Floor a Problem for Syracuse at MSG?
Syracuse basketball still hasn’t figured themselves out yet, so it was a tall task to ask the Orange to figure out a new court as well against UConn at MSG. One potential issue for SU on Monday night? The court is an NBA court with NBA regulation lines. Yes, college regulation lines were added for…
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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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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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A Closer Look at Potential Syracuse Target ’16 QB Jacob Hallenbeck
Syracuse hosted 2016 QB Jacob Hallenbeck for a visit this past weekend. Hallenbeck had a solid junior season that included 1,258 passing yards and 14 touchdowns. Although he is a pro-style quarterback, Hallenbeck has been trying to work on his speed to become a threat through the air and on the ground. There is no…
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Loss of Scholarships Increases Importance of Walk-Ons for Syracuse Hoops
The topic of the NCAA‚Äôs sanctions against the Syracuse basketball program has been talked about again and again.¬† Fans have been trying to figure out what the loss of scholarships means for Orange recruiting.¬† Can SU still land Thomas Bryant in 2015 and Tyus Battle in 2016? While only time will tell if Syracuse can…
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Does Malachi Richardson Deserve to Start Next Year?
The incoming freshman could force his way into the starting five.
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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 May Have Saved Itself in Recruitment of Tyus Battle
Recent transfers and future graduations will open room for the 2016 recruit.
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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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How the Transfers of Johnson and Patterson Effects Thomas Bryant
Two scholarships for 2015-16 have opened with Johnson and Patterson leaving the program.
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What’s Next for Mike Hopkins?
Of course, the obvious outcomes from the announcement Wednesday are that Daryl Gross is out as Athletic Director and coach Jim Boeheim will retire in three years. So to find the new Athletic Director, a search committee has been put together by the Chancellor and Board of Trustees to find Gross‚Äô replacement. And the prevailing…
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Syracuse Grants Release of WR Quinta Funderburk
Wide receiver Quinta Funderburk has been granted release from Syracuse University. Richard Morgan, Funderburk‚Äôs high school coach, told Syracuse.com, ‚ÄúHe’s got his release from the school. He‚Äôs got one year left to play. He still wants to play.‚Äù Morgan said that Funderburk approached him about a month ago and told him he was looking to…
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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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Fizz Five: Who Starts For Syracuse Basketball Next Season?
There‚Äôs a lot of gloom in Syracuse right now. Greg Gumble didn‚Äôt mention SU during Selection Sunday, Jim Boeheim is gone for the next nine conference games, and winter won‚Äôt quite go away in the Salt City. Hope is on the horizon though; just look to the depth of next year‚Äôs basketball team. The Orange…
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