Tag: syracuse basketball
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Did Judah Mintz Have a Good Case For ACC Rookie of the Year?
In just a few days’ time, Syracuse men’s hoops’ 2022-23 season will probably be over, barring an eleventh-hour NIT pity bid. If SU plays a postseason game anytime soon or even wins multiple games in this year’s ACC Tournament, it’ll likely have one dynamic freshman to thank. First-year guard Judah Mintz was as good as…
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What Can We Make of KenPom’s ACC Tournament Projections?
It’s been a strange ACC basketball season so far. Teams like Duke and North Carolina possess incredible high-end talent that hasn’t lived up to expectations, Clemson and Pitt have seemingly come out of nowhere, the wheels have fallen off Notre Dame and Florida State, and Louisville is Louisville. There’s plenty to dissect from our dear…
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Syracuse Scores Feel-Good Win Over Wake Forest, 72-63
After a week spent hyping up Saturday’s festivities, Syracuse men’s basketball (17-14, 10-10 ACC) made sure it didn’t ruin its own party inside the JMA Dome. In a 72-63 victory over Wake Forest (18-13, 10-10 ACC), SU got ahead early, stayed ahead, and used the emotion from a large dome crowd to coast past the…
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Fizz Instant Reaction: Syracuse Coasts Past Wake Forest, 72-63
The Fizz’s Carter Bainbridge breaks down SU’s regular-season finale victory over Wake Forest. (Originally recorded 3/4/23)
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Syracuse’s Top 2 Outside Coaching Candidates
After the season ended last year, we did a multi-week series profiling who Syracuse’s next coach could be. It started with current assistants Adrian Autry and Gerry McNamara, moved to Mike Hopkins, and even had a little splash of Rick Pitino. But, currently, none of those options seem to be looking like the best to…
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Fizz Instant Reaction: Syracuse embarrased by GT 96-76
Ian Unsworth and Liam Griffin recap the unfortunate situation Syracuse basketball finds itself in at the moment. Giving 90-plus points in four straight games to conference foes, potentially dropping to the 10-seed in a bad ACC, losing a prized recruit in the process and the inevitability of the Boeheim burnout.
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Competitiveness is Jim Boeheim’s Best Quality. It’s Driven Syracuse to the Brink
After another demoralizing performance by Syracuse against Georgia Tech on Tuesday night, it’s time for everyone to look in the mirror. Players, coaches. Administrators, and even fans for why they continue supporting this team. Without the celebration of the 2003 team on Saturday, there is absolutely no reason why anyone should go to the Dome…
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Insult to Injury: Marcus Adams No Longer Visiting Syracuse This Weekend
At this point, can you blame him? Syracuse enters this weekend’s showdown with Wake Forest having lost four straight games by 17+ points for the first time in over 60 years, with its defense at an all-time low, and with one of the most dejected times for the fanbase in recent memory. Why would you…
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Syracuse Hoops Must Change To Survive, Or Else
For a particular beleaguered, has-been college basketball power, February 2023 was a no-good, very bad month. It began with public admonishment aimed at its coach who growled too loudly at the media. Later that week, the same coach was scolded for a badly-timed interview that required a week’s worth of walk-back. A rare ranked victory…
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It Can Always Get Worse… Syracuse Embarrassed by GT
In 1859, Charles Darwin came up with the theory of natural selection. It’s a rather simple idea. Certain species are born with characteristics that allow them to survive longer than others, and their offspring would continue to evolve to be better suited to the environment. Those who don’t evolve, well, don’t last. There has not…
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Fizz Five 2/28: Pitt Embarrassment, Georgia Tech Preview, and Saturday’s Ceremonies
Ethan Frank and Liam Griffin take a basketball-heavy focus on this week’s Fizz Five to go over everything wrong with Syracuse right now. 1. Reacting to the blowout loss to Pittsburgh (1:25)2. Analyzing the Orange’s three-game losing streak (6:45)3. Preview Georgia Tech (15:05)4. Saturday’s jersey retirements and ceremonies (18:50)5. Previewing Wake Forest and the ACC…
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The Sweet 16 Run in 2021 May Have Been a Net Negative
The old saying “defense wins championships” is a popular one, and it’s something Syracuse Men’s Basketball held dear on its run to the Sweet Sixteen two years ago. Jim Boeheim’s famed 2-3 zone left San Diego State and West Virginia flustered, and it was the talk of the town among the national media. Fast forward…
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Fizz Instant Reactions: Defense Plagues Syracuse in 99-82 Loss to Pittsburgh
Cameron Ezeir chats with the Fizz community about SU’s third straight loss, 99-82 to Pitt, all predicated on poor defensive play.
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Syracuse Drops Third Straight in 99-82 Loss to Pittsburgh
After a positive first half, at least compared to the last two games, SU collapsed in the second half in a 99-82 loss to Pittsburgh. That’s now five Orange losses in the last six against the Panthers. The first half is an ode to some positives. Jim Boeheim started Justin Taylor and Benny Williams over…
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The End is Going to be Ugly for Jim Boeheim
A couple of months ago, we at The Fizz wrote a piece about how the end was near for Jim Boeheim, and how it wasn’t going to be pretty. Well, since then, it’s gone from not pretty to ugly, as Syracuse has lost back-to-back games by 18+ points for the first time since 1968, 55…
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Was Marcus Adams Jr. Not Sold on Syracuse?
After the commitment of Elijah Moore, Marcus Adams Jr. was the next name on the list for Syracuse fans. Adam Weitsman offered the four-star recruit an NIL deal in late January, Adams also visited the campus in late January, and he had dropped a top five with Syracuse in the forefront. A six-foot-eight forward with…
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Fizz Instant Reactions: Syracuse Gets Demolished by Clemson 91-73 in Death Valley
After Syracuse Basketball allowed 90+ points for the first time this season, Cameron Ezeir is joined by Francesco Simone, Ian Unsworth and Liam Griffin to chat about another SU abysmal effort to drop the Orange to 16-12 on the season.
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Syracuse Looks Lifeless in 91-73 Loss to Clemson
After an embarrassing loss to Duke over the weekend, it’s no secret that every game onward was essentially a must-win. Leg one was a trip to Death Valley against a Clemson team in the midst of a nosedive, losers of four of its last five. But just as most games have gone against highly-touted ACC…
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Don’t Give Up on Boogie Fland
Before Syracuse blew it against North Carolina a month ago, reports were floating that Adam Weitsman was bringing two high-profile recruits to the game. Moore showed up and committed to Syracuse the following weekend. However, Fland’s case was a different story. We know what you’re thinking. “Sound the alarms, another recruiting failure, why can’t this…
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The Season of Experimentation Starts Now
Congratulations to the Duke Blue Devils for finally ushering Syracuse into the next stage of its season. The Orange have four games left, two at home, and two on the road. The travels start Wednesday at Clemson and continue over the weekend at Pittsburgh, both games the Orange will be underdogs in. Then, SU gets…
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Fizz Five 2/20: Duke Recap, SU’s Bleak Tournament Chances, and Clemson Preview
Carter Bainbridge and Cameron Ezeir are back on Fizz Five to recap Syracuse Men’s Basketball’s 77-55 loss to Duke. Plus, the two break down SU’s chances of making the tournament and the Orange’s chances of downing the Clemson Tigers Wednesday.
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Syracuse Basketball Nabs First 2023 Recruit
It took eons longer than last year, but Syracuse men’s basketball has landed a recruit for this fall. Brooklyn native and 7’2 center William Patterson is the first class of 2023 player to choose SU. Patterson dwindled down his list to three schools (Cuse, Oklahoma State and TCU) around four months ago before putting off…
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Syracuse Has Officially Hit Rock Bottom
If you walked around SU’s campus on Saturday afternoon, there was a palpable buzz in the atmosphere. The Orange were on a three-game win streak, coming off their first ranked victory of the season, and about to face a Duke team that had played below its potential all season. There was a strong belief that…
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Syracuse-Duke is Not a Rivalry, and Never Will Be
There are a bajillion adjectives you could use to describe yesterday’s game, and none of them are kind to Syracuse. A letdown. A catastrophe. A butt-whooping. All of them fit. Duke ran the Orange up and down the court that bears the name of the longest-tenured head coach in college basketball, and besides bemoaning the…
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ESPN’s Vitale: Mintz Should Play Second Year at SU
On the off chance that anyone affiliated with Duke men’s basketball regards Syracuse to be a worthy rival, yesterday’s 77-55 throttling at the JMA Wireless Dome should quash those notions for good. No matter how hard its student body pretends that the Blue Devils consider them equals, SU has become little more than an annuity…
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Fizz Report Card: Duke Destroys Syracuse
Joe Girard: B There’s nobody in college basketball that’s a more dangerous shooter when the time of the game is meaningless than Joe Girard. JG3 somehow found a way to post 20 points but most of his buckets came when the game was well out of reach and simply did not matter. Judah Mintz: A-…
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Syracuse Must Play an “A” Game to Beat Duke
The most one-sided rivalry in the ACC returns to Central New York this weekend, as Duke, whose fans do not care much about Syracuse, travels to the Dome to face the Orange, whose fans are obsessed with the Blue Devils. Especially with Coach K now gone, this “rivalry” has never been deader, especially with the…
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Jesse Edwards is Re-Introducing Himself Down the Stretch
Syracuse is once again making it interesting in the closing weeks of the season. The Orange (16-10, 9-6 ACC) have won three straight after dropping three consecutive games. Now Coach Boeheim and Company burst into a closing five-game stretch which features four of the top seven teams in the conference beginning with Duke on Saturday.…
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What Does Elijah Moore’s Commitment Mean for the Future of Weitsman’s $?
In the wake of Jim Boeheim’s interview a week and a half ago, it’s hard to not have a semblance of a smile while writing this. Nonetheless, Elijah Moore became the first of hopefully many commits to pledge to Syracuse while benefitting from an NIL deal with Adam Weitsman. Now that there’s one player in…
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Judah Mintz is the Reason Syracuse is in Position to be in Position
Each game has built on the previous one. It’s like a step ladder, and Judah Mintz continues to take one, sometimes two steps up each game. Syracuse is now 16-10 overall and 9-6 in the ACC thanks in large part to Mintz’s play. He was key in the Orange’s 75-72 win over No. 23 NC…
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Fizz Instant Reactions: Syracuse 75, No. 23 NC State 72
Win of the year? Liam Griffin and Cameron Ezeir recap a wild game inside the Dome on Tuesday night.
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Fizz Report Card: Syracuse Sneaks Past No. 23 NC State 75-72
When Jesse Edwards of all people hit a three-pointer, you thought to yourself “there is no possible way Syracuse will lose this game”. At that point, the Dome was perhaps the loudest it has been all season. And on Valentine’s Day, Cupid’s Arrow struck the Orange faithful in the form of a thrilling 75-72 victory…
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Would An NIT Berth Be A “Successful” Season?
After the worst season in the Jim Boeheim era last year, expectations among fans and media members weren’t nearly as high as they typically are for Syracuse. In a conference like the ACC, it’s a fairly large ask to go from a sub-.500 season to the NCAA Tournament. And lo and behold, in the middle…
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Is SU Still On Track to Make The NIT?
Syracuse men’s basketball’s regular season is in its closing stages, and it certainly feels like the fate of the 2022-23 Orange is cut-and-dry. SU is 8th in the ACC and 88th in KenPom, right above teams like Santa Clara and Vanderbilt and right below others like Southern Miss and VCU. All season long, Syracuse hasn’t…
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Syracuse’s Most Fun Players to Watch in the Last 10 Years
2022-23 is Syracuse’s 10th season playing in the ACC, which makes this a perfect time to do an unequivocal ranking of the Orange’s most enjoyable players to watch over that time span. This is a comprehensive list and not wrong (at least I’d like to think), but other answers will be tolerated. Since the move…
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Fizz Instant Reaction: Syracuse Outlasts Florida State, 76-67
The Fizz’s Carter Bainbridge breaks down SU’s 76-67 win over Florida State.
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