February 10, 2009 – 6:33 pm
Before the upcoming UConn game wipes away all but the most obvious and painful memories of the Villanova game, I want to draw attention to the one pleasant surprise in Saturday’s game. Kristof! had 9 rebounds in 17 minutes and hustled his Belgian butt off before fouling out.
Needless to say, Syracuse did not come back [...]
February 9, 2009 – 12:50 pm
‘Melo channeling the spirit of ’80s era Boeheim.
I also had a very similar jacket, which is thankfully immortalized in a large family portrait.
h/t: Trish LaMonte
February 8, 2009 – 2:07 pm
So this is what happens when the CuseCountry crew rolls deep to a road game? Suffice it to say that watching SU give up a hundred points for the second time in three games was not what we had in mind when we bought our tickets a few months ago for this sold out game. [...]
December 8, 2008 – 6:40 pm
New polls are out.
We started the season underrated but the boys are just too darn good and it didn’t last long. Last week, the Syracusan noted the conservative nature of pollsters. If you weren’t in their top 25 the previous week, you’re unlikely to debut at a very high level. Now that we’ve broken the [...]
December 4, 2008 – 6:31 pm
You had to scroll down past the transcript of Boeheim’s post game interview to find it, but The Axeman has a good little piece on Boeheim’s aggressive use of the bench and the gas face (“And the faces he made! Oh the faces.”) to motivate the team to come from behind against the surprisingly feisty [...]
December 1, 2008 – 8:09 pm
(Oh, yeah. And Syracuse has 30 other points, too.)
Harris, and his rubberbanded afro, had a field day out there early in the game, taking the opportunity to pad the stats a little and shooting 6 for 8.
It’s nice to see Justin Thomas get some playing time. He’s missed some chances to take shots, opting instead to distribute the [...]
November 28, 2008 – 2:25 pm
What are you going to do between your 5am Black Friday shopping and the SU-Virginia game? Check CuseCountry, I assume. So I’ll offer some rambling thoughts. (Anybody else find the term Black Friday creepy?)
Did anyone else give thanks for the SU basketball team yesterday? Politics and family took most of the market share of conversation [...]
November 26, 2008 – 11:39 am
Sean at TNAM and Tim are coming down hard on Devo for thinking he has to put the game on his shoulders and, as a result, forcing himself into bad plays. They have a point. Dude can get sloppy. But I think the other players appreciate his heart and in a way it takes the [...]
November 18, 2008 – 9:56 pm
Thank goodness for Eric Devendorf and Jonny Flynn, who combined for 49 points tonight, nearly two thirds of the team’s 76, in their win over the Richmond Spiders. A healthy 16 more points came from Onuaku, who scored basically at will when the team got him the ball inside, going 8 for 11. (Expect continued [...]
November 9, 2008 – 11:56 am
Bud says:
“As he is to zone defense what Emeril is to jambalaya, Jim Boeheim is titillated not at all by the man-to-man. Oh, he appreciates it, all right. It’s not like Boeheim gazes upon the man-to-man the way a vegetarian does a leg of lamb. It’s just that his thing is the zone.”
A small point, [...]