January 12, 2011 – 12:24 pm
With all the malarkey that has been going on regarding Syracuse’s visit to DC in February, and how Georgetown is refusing to sell individual-game tickets unless you are a Hoya Athletics donor, I thought this needed to be shared. Tonight’s Georgetown game against #5 Pittsburgh is not sold out. In fact, it is far from [...]
January 10, 2011 – 1:43 pm
As of right now, 19 of the top 25 teams in the country are from the Big East. In the RPI, 12 out of the top 10 teams are from the Big East. The Big East’s record against other BCS schools so far this season is 822-9. Congress has mandated that league-based power-rankings produced by [...]
December 28, 2010 – 3:29 am
As promised, here’s the second half of my survey of the Big East “preseason” results. For the first seven teams, see my previous post. This post will cover the exploits of the nine teams predicted by the coaches to finish in the top…uh, eight. I’ll quote myself from the last post to explain [...]
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October 20, 2010 – 10:06 am
…which is to say, finding joy in the other guy’s pain. Lets focus on what matters in the recently released Post-Standard preseason writers poll on the upcoming Big East basketball season. Sure, SU was picked to finish 3rd, which is a decent perch from which to begin the new campaign. No complaints there. But lets [...]
March 19, 2010 – 12:20 pm
I’ll be honest with you: when Syracuse is a high seed in the tournament, I get very little joy at watching the amazing upsets that annually bedevil the power teams and delight audiences everywhere. Watching Villanova play utterly awful basketball and require a borderline miracle to escape Robert Morris wasn’t fun for me, nor was [...]
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March 14, 2010 – 11:09 pm
Quick hit reactions on the bracket here on Monday morning in China:
The committee must have some kind of sadistic streak to pair us with Vermont. Not that I fear a repeat performance from 2005, but the amount of flashback highlights we’re going to have to endure is not something I look forward to. And there’s [...]
March 11, 2010 – 11:58 am
Call me paranoid but I have a bad feeling about today’s Georgetown game. Maybe it’s some residual angst left over from watching the Hoyas storm back and almost pull the upset at the Verizon Center in February. I just think they maybe have finally figured out what they need to do against SU. I’m trying [...]
February 19, 2010 – 3:15 am
Outside the Verizon Center, approx. 9:25pm, Thursday, February 18, 2010:
February 18, 2010 – 12:44 pm
Getting majorly psyched up for the game tonight. I will of course be there, as I have for the past 10 years that I have lived in the DC area (except those dark years that they did not play a game here), decked out in bright orange of course. I’m not particularly confident that Syracuse [...]
January 26, 2010 – 3:05 am
So, a week ago after the Notre Dame game, I wrote this:
These Orange players do not panic. They do not wilt under pressure. They do not get rattled, nervous, worried, disturbed, bothered, anxious, concerned, distressed, flustered, agitated, worked up, scared, unsettled, or disquieted. They respond.
Perhaps you thought I was being a little too laudatory, a [...]
