Tag: syracuse basketball
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SU Center Frank Anselem Enters Transfer Portal
For the second consecutive offseason, Syracuse men‚Äôs hoops has now been surprised by one of its own heading to the transfer portal. Today, sophomore center Frank Anselem entered the portal, marking a possible fresh start elsewhere for the backup big man. Anselem‚Äôs decision didn‚Äôt quite register the shock value that Kadary Richmond and Quincy Guerrier‚Äôs…
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Time To Admit It: We All Underestimated The ACC
With the calendar about ready to flip over to April, Syracuse pulled a trick on us all and dumped roughly six inches of snow on the city during a time when most of the country is already wearing shorts. Locals might‚Äôve expected this, but trust an outsider to tell you that we weren‚Äôt at all…
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Nelly Cummings, Others Present SU Hoops With Transfer Portal Dilemma
Several weeks removed from Syracuse men‚Äôs hoops‚Äô final game of its 2021-22 season, the focus has shifted almost entirely to the team‚Äôs construction heading into next Fall. On last weekend’s Fizz Five, we touched on basketball a couple times, including a conversation about whether or not SU should dip into the transfer portal again for…
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Should Syracuse Target a Player Already On Its Radar?
Amidst all the hype surrounding the 2022 recruiting class, and rightfully so, with two four-star and a trio of three-star recruits, Syracuse fans should keep an eye out for players entering their name into the transfer portal (yes, already). It proved successful last season, bringing in two starters in Jimmy Boeheim and Cole Swider, as…
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ESPN’s Thamel: Autry, Not McNamara, Deserves SU Job
With Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball well past its premature 2021-22 finish line and the NCAA Tournament hitting full force today, the end of basketball season is in sight. However, Syracuse basketball‚Äôs constant speculation on the future of its head coach has no such offseason ahead of it. If anything, conversations surrounding head coach Jim Boeheim‚Äôs future…
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Three Years of Takes, Games and A Whole Lot of Fun
As a freshman at Syracuse University, I set a goal for myself — get involved in as many places as possible. After 256 articles, nearly 100 FizzRadio episodes or FizzCasts, and countless tweets, today is my final day with Orange Fizz. It has been one heck of a ride, Fizz Nation. As expected, through three…
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Syracuse Hoops May Lose Out On Judah Mintz
For just the third time in the Jim Boeheim era, Syracuse men’s basketball is spending mid-March at home without a postseason tournament to play for. This year, the team’s play kept it out of the tournament instead of NCAA sanctions, and we’ve all had to turn our attention to recruiting a bit earlier than usual.…
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So Long, 2021-22 SU Hoops. We Hardly Knew You.
Nothing quite showcases the highs and lows of a collegiate season quite like a basketball postseason tournament. Of all the teams that have played or will play on this week, Syracuse men’s hoops may best personify the hectic emotional nature of the postseason. After a mostly listless regular season, SU ambushed its first round ACC…
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Is Buddy Boeheim Deserving of An All-ACC 1st Team Nod?
Barring an unlikely tournament run or NIT invitation, the end of Buddy Boeheim’s career is coming up on the horizon. His accolades are plenty and the player he’s grown into is exponentially better than what Syracuse fans saw when he first played in Orange. After taking a backseat in his freshman year to players like…
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Saturday’s Meltdown Was One Final Indignity For Exhausted SU
With the ACC Tournament looming tomorrow, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is in the midst of tough times. That may even be an understatement, considering a Jim Boeheim-coached team has never been this bad at the end of a regular season than this year‚Äôs current 15-16 rendition. Even SU‚Äôs last NIT team (the 2016-17 group) wasn‚Äôt in…
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Breaking Down Syracuse vs. Florida State
The ACC tournament is nearly upon us. Just a couple of days from now Syracuse will be down in Brooklyn battling it out for ACC supremacy. Its first opponent? Florida State. A team SU split its season series with. Oddly enough, each team got its win on the other‚Äôs home floor. The Orange took care…
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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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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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The Next ‘Big Thing’ for Syracuse Football
Sean Tucker is the running back room for Syracuse football. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it. But what if I told you that a transfer running back from some place called New Mexico State will make him even more dangerous in 2022. Does the name Juwaun Price ring a bell? Odds are it…
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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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Syracuse’s Historical Performance in College Hoops
Syracuse is known throughout the college basketball world as one of the most successful teams ever, and the biggest reason why is Jim Boeheim. Syracuse has been extraordinary over the last 50 years He has almost been in charge of the team for almost 50 years; a feat that is unheard of in every sport,…
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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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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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Evaluating the Legacy of Joe Girard III
Joe Girard is the 65th player in Syracuse history to reach the 1,000 point milestone. That’s pretty rare company for a point guard who’s not a point guard at all. So, even though there is plenty of time for Girard to give his legacy a facelift, the question of how SU fans will remember him…
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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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Diamond in the Rough – Syracuse Offers 2023 Center Ugonna Kingsley
After a disappointing season, Syracuse basketball has to hit the reset button. The Orange are bringing in one of their best recruiting classes in program history next season. Plus, they are beginning to dabble in the class of 2023, most recently offering a guy that could be a diamond in the rough. Last Thursday, Jim…
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