Tag: Syracuse
-
The Mysterious Tale of Tyus Battles’ Jump Shot
In SU’s last game, a 72-49 win over Northeastern, Tyus Battle struggled again, going 0-4 on three point attempts. It continues what has been a mysterious season for Battle’s jay, both on the court and in the quote-book. Battle’s looming NBA decision was the talk of the summer. But while everyone was talking, Battle was…
-
Syracuse bolsters secondary with three-stars Cole, Greenwood
For the first time in a couple of months, Syracuse football finally has some down time. SU won‚Äôt find out its bowl opponent until Sunday and even after that will have at least three more weeks until it plays another game. But don‚Äôt let that down time fool you, the Orange were still very active…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
By the Numbers: Syracuse-UConn and Madison Square Garden
Syracuse faces UConn in a former Big East battle tonight at Madison Square Garden, or in other words, the ‚Äúmecca‚Äù of basketball. It‚Äôs safe to say the two squads are pretty fond of each other, having met a total of 94 times. 70 of those meetings were played as conference rivals in the Big East,…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Got Him! Four-Star Recruit Quincy Guerrier Commits to Syracuse
Reporting by Tyler Aki Syracuse got more treats than tricks on Halloween today. Four star recruit Quincy Guerrier announced he‚Äôs coming to play for the Orange in 2019. He made his announcement at halftime of the Pacers and Knicks game on the RDS 2 feed, a sister channel of TSN. This is similar to what…
-
STOCK WATCH: Who’s Up and Who’s Down After NC State
After a mostly dominant 51-41 win over NC State on Saturday, SU football is officially on the up and up. The anticipation and excitement surrounding this team is as high as it‚Äôs been in years and for good reason. The Orange is ranked for the first time in almost two decades (last ranked in 2001)…
-
Report Card: Syracuse’s Exhibition Win Over Saint Rose
It felt like an exhibition game. Probably because it was. A low-scoring slog in the first half saw Syracuse stagnant on offense. Saint Rose got some looks, but could never string together makes. Slowly, the Orange settled into the game and pulled away. There was only one thing that made SU’s 80-49 victory feel special:…
-
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…
-
Syracuse Legend Larry Csonka Feels The Good Old Days Returning
Syracuse is 5-2 after a thriller over UNC, and Orange fans are starting to remember what having a good football team feels like. It’s been awhile since SU could consider itself with the best of college football, but once upon a time it was a given. From the 1950s through the late 1990s, Syracuse was…
-
Top 5 Worst Twitter Overreactions/Takes of the Weekend
Twitter is a place for people to vent a little bit, express their feelings and get away from everything else for just a little while. It‚Äôs also a place where people tend to overreact and spew some pretty crazy takes. There‚Äôs no better time for these kinds of bold statements than after a disappointing loss…
-
Three things we learned from SU’s blowout win over Florida State
For the first time in the Dino Babers era (and for the first time since 2015) Syracuse football is undefeated through its first three games of the season after a 30-7 drubbing of Florida State on Saturday afternoon. SU really dominated the entire game from start to finish and every facet of the game, whether…
-
Scouting the Seminoles: Three Players to Watch for Florida State
With a dominant 62-10 win over Wagner last week, Syracuse football is off to its best start in the Dino Babers era, but things are only just getting started. The Orange have their toughest opponent yet coming up on Saturday as ACC play gets going with Florida State. Despite the Noles coming into the game…
-
How Vegas Projects Syracuse’s Football Season
Among SU fans there’s cautious optimism around the Orange right now. A healthy Eric Dungey, another season of understanding Dino Babers’ offense, an improvement in the depth of the talent. This could all lead to the first bowl game in five years, or it could look a lot like the end of last season. So…
-
SU Extends Offer to Class of 2020 4-Star Combo Guard Symir Torrence
As the saying goes, real estate is all about one thing: location, location, location. Apparently, basketball recruitment follows the same philosophy. We‚Äôve been expecting it for a while now, but on Saturday, it became official: the Orange offered Syracuse native and class of 2020 combo guard Symir Torrence. https://twitter.com/VTAcademyHoops/status/1033438238151778304 Torrence is from the Salt City…
-
Syracuse Football Position Previews 2018: Cornerbacks
When we previewed the other half of the defensive back corps a few weeks ago, we found out just how ineffective the SU secondary was at times last year. Ranking in the bottom 25% in the country in passing defense isn‚Äôt going to cut it in a very competitive ACC in 2018. Luckily, though, it…
-
Will Carmelo’s Time at OKC Be Deemed a Failure?
Last season started with so much promise for the Oklahoma Thunder, with an in-his-prime Paul George and a still-dangerous Carmelo Anthony joining the dynamic Russell Westbrook and the ever-improving Steven Adams. But the team unraveled, culminating in a first round exit at the hands of the Utah Jazz. Westbrook was spectacular once more, while George…
-
Syracuse Through Time: Hot Sports Topics During Last Year’s MLB All-Star Game
Things can change a lot in a year. With the MLB All-Star game this week, featuring stars from around the league such as the Chicago Cubs, here’s a look back one year ago at what we were talking about in the Syracuse sports world around last year’s MLB All-Star game: Syracuse Basketball Offered Tyus Battle’s…
-
A look at Carmelo Anthony’s Olympic legacy
Red, white, blue and orange might not be the most aesthetically pleasing of color combinations, but when they do come to mind for SU fans on a day such as America‚Äôs birthday, there‚Äôs really only one guy that you can point to as the perfect embodiment of all four. Carmelo Anthony is undoubtedly one of…
-
STOCK WATCH: Tyus Battle’s NBA Draft stock post-combine
With the NBA Draft Combine finishing up in Chicago over the past weekend, Syracuse basketball fans will all be wondering the same thing for the next 10 days or so: will Tyus Battle come back for his junior year? Battle has until midnight on May 30th to decide, and until then, he‚Äôll be working out…
-
Another Quiet Playoffs for Melo and Syracuse’s Former Stars
If Carmelo Anthony is not the greatest Syracuse basketball player ever, he’s certainly the most visible. Dave Bing is in the Hall of Fame. Derrick Coleman was drafted higher. Lawrence Moten scored more points. But Carmelo will live forever in school lore for delivering its only national championship, and thus all eyes are on him…
-
Former four-star Pitt basketball commit could soon help Syracuse
It‚Äôs not very often that we here at Orange Fizz talk about how the Pitt Panthers could actually help out Syracuse. Far too often, we‚Äôre talking about basketball-like scores in football games, recruits faking out the Orange to head to the Panthers or the not-so-great record SU had against Pitt in the Jamie Dixon era.…
-
Recruiting Report Card: Syracuse’s competition for 2019’s Joe Girard III
When he was just a blip on the college basketball recruiting radar, Syracuse basketball got to see class of 2019 guard Joe Girard III. He visited the SU campus more than a year ago before he had any scholarship offers on the table. The Orange and a number of other schools had the opportunity to…
-
SU football offers trio of 2019 O-Linemen
With basketball season officially over and a whirlwind week of roster moves behind us, at least some of the attention around SU athletics should start shifting over to the football side of things. Spring practice is in full swing and Dino Babers‚Äôs bunch gets its first chance to show its new-look defense and wide receiving…
-
Separating Fact and Fiction in the Sweet 16
They’re two big time basketball schools, with massive fan bases, and legendary coaches. These two schools produce NBA talent regularly, and are television draws no matter who they play. Sweet 16’s are nothing new for these two ACC programs, which means there’s a lot of noise surrounding their Friday night matchup. What’s fact, what’s fiction…
-
The Obvious Way for Syracuse to Beat Duke
It almost sounds funny. That‚Äôs because out of context it is so simple. To beat Duke, Syracuse will need to score more. Syracuse is one of only two teams to win a game in the NCAA Tournament this year while scoring 60 points or less (the other is Kansas State, which beat UMBC…
-
Syracuse Hoops Has (Bizarrely) Changed Its Narrative
It doesn’t take an old time Syracuse fan to realize this is crazy. Not only are the current Orange still dancing, but the narrative surrounding the program has flipped on its ear. Now things are being said like, “Jim Boeheim always wins this time of year.” Well, that hasn’t always been the case (to put…
-
Why this is Jim Boeheim’s best coaching job ever
In his 42nd season at the helm of the Syracuse basketball program, Jim Boeheim has somehow led his team to the Sweet Sixteen after an astonishing win over Michigan State on Sunday afternoon. Pretty much nobody, including us here at the Fizz, saw this coming. For all intents and purposes, the Spartans should have smacked…
-
SU offers four-star forward from class of 2019
With SU basketball heading to the NCAA Tournament to take on Arizona State on Wednesday, a lot of the focus surrounding the program has been on the current construction of the roster. However, there have been some new developments in the past week or so regarding what the roster could and will look like in…
-
Two Bubble Teams That Shouldn’t Get In Over SU
Syracuse might not have the best resume in the world this year. But, there are two teams in the Pac-12 that definitely don‚Äôt match SU‚Äôs resume as of right now and are somehow being placed ahead of the Orange in several mock brackets. USC (21-10) Now, The Trojans are facing Arizona in the PAC-12 title…
-
Bracketologists are Split on Syracuse in NCAA Tournament
Syracuse has left itself no wiggle room after the loss to UNC in the ACC tournament. For every plus, there’s a minus. For every negative, there’s a positive. Losing to Boston College by 15 was horrid, but beating Clemson at home was huge. Thumping Wake Forest in Brooklyn was mandatory, but losing to the Heels…
-
Fizz Radio: Breaking Down the ACC Tournament and SU’s NCAA Tournament Chances
In this week’s edition of Fizz Radio, JD Raucci and Tim Leonard react to the Orange’s disappointing run in the ACC tournament, predict what the future is for the Orange in the NCAA Tournament and evaluate a few studs in the Orange’s future.
Latest News
You May Have Missed
