Tag: Syracuse
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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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Cardarius Gaskin to Name Top Six Schools Tonight
Syracuse was named to one recruit‚Äôs top schools list yesterday, so why not make it onto another one today? 2018 three-star wide receiver Cardarius Gaskin tweeted out that he will announce his top six schools at 9 p.m. tonight. Gaskin ranks as the 726th best prospect nation-wide, 122nd at his position and 114th overall in…
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Syracuse Basketball Game Changer: 2018 Power Forward Narrows List
The Syracuse Basketball jigsaw puzzle is beginning to take shape as pieces to the Orange 2018 recruiting class fall into place. And soon, one recruit might bring the whole picture into focus. Four-star power forward Dimon Carrigan has narrowed his school list down to eight options. Among them, Syracuse is still in the race. While…
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Today: Four-Star and Three-Star Players Visiting Syracuse Football
Syracuse University campus might be quiet right now during summer break, but Syracuse football is busy with campus visits. Four-star offensive lineman Qadir White from the Bronx and three-star safety Cameron Jonas from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida are in Central New York right now. CuseNation.com‚Äôs Mike McAllister first reported the visits this morning. White and…
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Syracuse Football: Recruit Offered Yesterday, Commits Today
Sometimes you know exactly which decision to make. That‚Äôs how Will Froumy feels today. One day after receiving an offer from Syracuse football, the offensive tackle has committed to Syracuse University. The news was first reported by Michael McAllister on Scout.com. Froumy received other offers from Bryant University, New Hampshire, Maine and UMass. The first…
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Syracuse Basketball 2017-2018: Boeheim v Boeheim
College basketball always has its good matchups, but the 2017-2018 season might bring one Syracuse basketball hasn‚Äôt seen just yet. Syracuse Head Coach Jim Boeheim is back in Central New York for his 42nd season as the Orange‚Äôs leader. Meanwhile, Jimmy Boeheim, the SU legend‚Äôs son, will be starting his first year at Cornell. CBS’s…
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Should Syracuse have a baseball team?
This is, undoubtedly, the most exciting time of the year for college baseball. The College World Series is underway, and the MLB Draft starts Monday. As teams fight for trips to Omaha and childhood dreams are realized, the question has to be asked: why doesn’t Syracuse have a baseball team? The Orange is one of…
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Three Syracuse Football Players Featured on Preseason All-ACC Teams
Preseason is all about predictions. Who is on the team, what they are capable of individually and what they will do together over the course of a season. With just 81 days until the first game of 2017 (but who‚Äôs counting?), various outlets are ranking players based on preseason projections. Lindy‚Äôs is the latest national…
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Prediction Time: Athlon says Syracuse football will go 5-7 in 2017
The start of Syracuse football’s 2017 season is three months away, but there is no reason for Orange fans to start getting anxious. Athlon has already told the people how SU will fare this season, so you can spend game day reading a book or learning to knit — whatever it is people who aren’t…
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Crazy Turn of Events Can Benefit Syracuse Football
Sometimes things don‚Äôt work out as planned. That is the story of Ben Bryant, now a former University of Wisconsin commit. The Class of 2018 three-star quarterback received his first college offer from the Badgers on June 24, 2016. After a couple of visits, Bryant committed to the team that reached out to him first…
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Syracuse Basketball Four-Star Target to Announce Decision Tomorrow
Even though it‚Äôs only May, we are now only a few months away from college basketball season. Okay, maybe it‚Äôs about half a year away from the first game, but for the players, practices to prepare for the season are creeping up. Syracuse basketball is looking for another addition to the team. Class of 2017…
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Syracuse Football Adds Fifth Recruit from Class of ’18
Some decisions in life take a long time to make. Others come more quickly. Just under one month after receiving an offer from Syracuse football, Ja‚Äôqurius Smith accepted the invitation and committed to the Orange this morning. Smith is a three star outside linebacker, according to 247Sports.com. The Lakeland, Florida native is the 47th ranked…
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Syracuse v Georgetown Basketball Rivalry on the Big Stage in 2017
Dynamics of the Syracuse versus Georgetown basketball rivalry, might be changing, but that does not mean the games become less exciting. The Orange-Hoyas classic will resume in 2017. The game will be played on the big stage, too. Syracuse and Georgetown are set for tip off in the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on December…
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Four Star Center Tyrone Sampson Jr. Commits to Syracuse
Syracuse football added another name to it‚Äôs list today. Four star offensive lineman¬†Tyrone Sampson Jr. committed to Syracuse while visiting the university. Sampson will join the Orange for the 2018 season after graduating from high school next year. The 6 foot 3 inch, 295 pound center¬†hails from Detroit, Michigan. He is ranked as the fifth…
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Dungey is Injury Prone, Should Syracuse Football Worry about QB Depth?
Among the buzz of football recruiting, it is also important to keep an eye on players who have already established themselves on the Orange roster. Dino Babers‚Äô recent comments about the SU defense preparing to get more physical in the year to come may make some people wonder if the same expectations apply to the…
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Syracuse Football Gives Three 2019 Recruits First Offers
Dino Babers and the rest of the Orange coaching staff have been pretty good at offering recruits early, but let‚Äôs be honest‚Ķ Usually when a recruit tweets about his latest offer from Syracuse, the Orange is just one of a handful of schools in the mix. This week, the script has flipped. SU handed out…
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Notable Names Not Returning To The ACC Next Year
Next season, Syracuse will be down three of its top four scorers from last year. However, the Orange is not alone in the ACC in terms of key absences come 2017. Here are the most notable departures for each team in the conference for next season. (Note: Some of these players have not declared for…
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Three Lessons Syracuse can Learn from National Champion North Carolina
North Carolina has won it all: the Tar Heels are the 2017 NCAA Tournament champions. It goes without saying that North Carolina played well this year, and from that there is a lot Syracuse can learn. Jim Boeheim court will don a different team than we saw this season come the fall. To improve its…
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Mike Hopkins Leaves to Be Next Head Coach at Washington
The plan was set. Following the 2017-2018 basketball season Mike Hopkins was going to take over for Jim Boeheim as SU’s head coach. The school announced the retirement plan following the sanctions that were levied against the¬†program¬†in 2015. Not so fast. Today, Mike Hopkins accepted the head coaching position at the University of Washington, according…
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Syracuse’s Frustrating Season Ends Perfectly, Losing to Ole Miss in NIT
What could be a more appropriate ending to one of the most disappointing seasons in program history than what we just witnessed? A Syracuse team that was always more talented than the results showed lost at the Dome to the 5th-best team in perhaps the worst Power 5 basketball conference. Ole Miss may have stacked…
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Inconvenient Truth: Syracuse’s Biggest Problem Has Been Coaching
There is an uncomfortable wind blowing into Central New York¬†today, whipping around Orange Nation. Not only has the reality set in of no NCAA Tournament after the Selection Committee snubbed Syracuse last night, but that more egregiously this has become the new norm. We are one very gracious Selection Sunday away from three straight lonely…
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Is this Syracuse Season a Total Failure if No NCAA’s?
If Syracuse is left out of the NCAA Tournament tomorrow, will this season be a success? Not in most people’s eyes. This was a team coming off a Final Four berth last season, and Jim Boeheim openly glowed over the potential of this year’s squad. While midway through the season it looked impossible for the…
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I Think Syracuse is Playing in Dayton Next Week
Syracuse didn’t help itself out by losing in its first ACC tourney game. A win over Miami, I think, would’ve safely but the Orange in. Now it’s some restless nights for SU fans waiting to see how the musical chairs fill up over the next four days. But I think the Orange will eventually have…
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Why One CBS Analyst Thinks Syracuse “Is Definitely In” the Tournament
Brendan Haywood knows something about the ACC. He was an All-American player for UNC, and reached the Final Four in 2000. Now he’s an analyst for CBS Sports Network. I asked him if Syracuse should make the tournament after last night’s thriller. He left no doubt. “Syracuse is definitely a tournament team. They have enough…
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Watch the Phone Footage from Syracuse Fans of the Shot That Beat Duke
The series of camera phone footage from last night’s incredible buzzer beater is phenomenal. It made it’s way throughout SportsCenter and circulated around social media all night/day. Personally, I can’t get enough of it. Whether this enough to lock in SU to the field of 68 is another argument, but for now watching this over…
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Three Crucial Elements of Sunday’s Matchup Against Georgia Tech
It‚Äôs coming down to the wire. There are only four games left in the regular season. With Syracuse’s NCAA Tournament chances on the line, Georgia Tech makes up half of SU‚Äôs remaining schedule. The first of two times the Orange and the Yellow Jackets will meet is this Sunday in Atlanta. Here are three crucial…
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ESPN “Wouldn’t Bet Against” Syracuse Making The Tourney
National experts on Bubble Patrol will have extra interest around CNY over the next two weeks. How much work needs to be done by SU in the regular season? How much will be left to do at Barclay’s in the ACC Tournament? Eamonn Brennan put it this way: “Syracuse [16-11 (8-6), RPI: 76, SOS: 58]…
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Is This the Start of the Most Shocking Turnaround in Syracuse History?
They did it again. The Cardiac Orange pulled another rabbit out of the hat, this time on a last-second buzzer beater by Tyus Battle that took a two-point loss on the road and turned it into a one-point win over Clemson. Syracuse has now pulled the trick so many times in the last two weeks,…
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Predicting the 5 Most Valuable Recruits of Syracuse’s 2017 Class
Tomorrow is National Signing Day, and while we know all the Syracuse commits won’t be difference-makers, there’s hope that this staff’s second class brings in a few studs. Here’s my projections for who I think will be the top 5 most valuable when their careers at SU are over. Tommy DeVito. He seems to have…
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Naesean Howard Reminds us Signing Day Wins Can Be Fool’s Gold
Today,¬†Naesean Howard¬†is sentenced to 10 years in state prison. A little over two years ago he was kicked off the Syracuse football team. But in the spring of ’13, Howard was being compared to some of the all-time greats that played football in CNY. In March ’13, The Fizz ran a story comparing Howard to…
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Watch Syracuse Commit Tommy DeVito on ESPNU this Signing Day
While Syracuse’s recruiting class might not get much national attention, at least one of its recruits will. Quarterback Tommy DeVito will be one of four players in studio throughout ESPNU’s day long coverage of National Signing Day. According to a press release today, DeVito, along with¬†Fred Hansard (Penn State) and A.J. Dillon (Boston College) will…
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Mark Richt is Being Selfish and Hypocritical with Gus Edwards’ Transfer
Look, let’s be real. Gus Edwards is not likely to be the difference between Syracuse having a good season versus a bad one. In three seasons with Miami, he’s totaled less than 1,000 yards. If Edwards came in and gave the Orange 400 yards rushing in ’17, it would be his career high. Edwards injuries…
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Sorry in South Bend: Syracuse Gets Smashed at Notre Dame
Another day, another lethargic effort by Syracuse. The game was never in doubt, as Syracuse’s only lead was on the first bucket of the game. Notre Dame wins 84-66, which is the biggest margin of victory by the Irish over SU since ’98. SU was still in the game after halftime, but a horrendous first…
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One Big Reason Syracuse Basketball Fell to Virginia Tech
Forget that Syracuse basketball beat Virginia Tech the last five times the Orange and the Hokies played against each other. Forget that Syracuse had a rough start to this season and that SU was coming off two solid wins over ACC teams. Forget that Virginia Tech was 9-0 at home this season and had won…
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Syracuse Basketball Upsets Miami to Pick Up Its First ACC Win
Regardless of the struggles Syracuse fans have been groaning about for the first half of this season, the Orange got it done tonight with a 70-55 win against Miami. While pregame hopes seemed simply to wish that SU would make it out of the Carrier Dome alive tonight, postgame conversation now turns to how Syracuse…
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History Shows What to Do Against St. John’s
In another quick turnaround game for Syracuse, the Orange plays its third game in five days tonight against St. John‚Äôs in the Carrier Dome. SU has a chance to win its 50th game against St. John‚Äôs in history, playing its 85th all-time game against the Red Storm. It‚Äôs that history between these two teams that…
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