You may have noticed that this space has been silent for the past six weeks. Unfortunately, things have happened which have conspired to rob me of the many hours a week I used to have available to put into this blog. I had a Villanova postgame autopsy all put together in my head but was [...]
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January 3, 2013 – 9:36 pm
There is a reason that Jim Boeheim has won more games than any other coach not named Krwzyzywrzyzski. It’s not that his schedules are loaded with puffery (they’re not, at least no more than your typical powerhouse program). It’s not that he’s able to routinely stack the roster with multiple McDonald’s All-Americans (there have been [...]
September 5, 2012 – 1:19 pm
Here it is, plus some commentary:
1/2 Rutgers: nice “warm-up game” to open the season. RU is improving but still not in SU’s weight class.
1/6 @ USF: identical to above, but on the road.
1/9 @ Providence: Final visit to Providence, home of Big East HQ.
1/12 Villanova: Glad their final Dome visit is on a Saturday [...]
February 26, 2012 – 12:56 pm
This is getting ridiculous. Syracuse plays what seems like their 86th consecutive nailbiter and somehow they come out on top. Yet again. What else is new.
Remember about halfway through the season when we were all wondering how SU would respond in a close game, because they had been basically blowing everyone out of the [...]
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January 6, 2012 – 1:49 am
DePaul 84, Pitt 81
USF 74, Villanova 57 (at the Pavilion no less!)
Both Pitt and Nova are now 0-3 in conference play. In case you forgot, Pitt won the conference last year and was a 1 seed in the NCAAs. I know they lost some key guys from last year but Ashton Gibbs and four rocking [...]
December 18, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Fitting that SU’s FTRG (”first true road game”) came on a night when I was making my own road trip, driving 6 hours from DC to glorious chilly Upstate NY. I thought I’d timed it perfectly, arriving at my destination around 6:45, just enough time to get settled in and stretch out from the road [...]
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October 28, 2011 – 3:39 pm
With today’s official announcement of the defection of West Virginia to the Big 12, there is now one school remaining in the Big East that was part of the original football conference. Ladies and bros, I present the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. (Although who knows, maybe they’ll bring back Temple.) Six original basketball members remain (counting [...]
October 24, 2011 – 10:24 pm
While most of Syracuse nation remains abuzz over the football team’s unexpected demolishing of West Virginia — and I remain in that state as well — I’m also still reveling in the afterglow of the most entertaining piece of Syracuse basketball writing I’ve come across in years. I’m referring to Ben Detrick’s hilarious, erudite, and [...]
September 20, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Taylor Branch shook the world of college sports recently with the publication of a devastating attack on the NCAA’s system of exploitation against college athletes. The obfuscation, manipulation, hypocrisy, and general disingenuousness of almost everything the NCAA tries to do at the major sports level is truly disturbing. He wrote the piece in The Atlantic, [...]
September 19, 2011 – 10:20 pm
Kevin Bacon doing his best John Marinatto impression:
