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 [...]
If you’re sick of thinking about Blake Griffin but still want to consume some college basketball and Syracuse press (because you can’t get the NCAAs out of your head), here’s some help.
There are two ways to pick a coach of the year, and neither one is particularly helpful in the Big East this year. Either you pick the one coach who’s team was so overwhelmingly dominant that they clearly did the best job, regardless of whether everyone expected them to win; or you pick the coach [...]
I realize no one in this space has posted about the great Georgetown win, so I feel a little bad about jumping to a different subject first. But frankly, Saturday’s win was one of the most frustrating I’ve ever seen, and rather than harp on all the ups and downs, swings of emotion, gripes, and [...]
Giving up 100 points or more in a regulation college basketball game is a humiliating event. Or it should be at any rate. It’s an event so incredibly disheartening and improbable that it should be one of the rarest occasions in the sport. Any modicum of effort on defense by any reasonable collection of half-way [...]
That was disheartening. SU lost to Louisville on Sunday in a game that didn’t feel as competitive or close as the score indicated. Although SU showed heart and guts in keeping it close, repeatedly stanched Cardinal runs that threatened to turn the game into a route, and somehow managed to claw their way back into [...]
It’s not real hard to tell the difference between Notre Dame and Pitt, is it? I’ll let Bill Murray’s character from Space Jam explain Notre Dame’s strategic philosophy on the basketball court.
Whereas Pitt’s approach is more like this:
It’s true SU didn’t get some calls tonight against Pitt, but I didn’t like to see our guys [...]
Syracuse is the unanimous eighth ranked team in America, according to both polls. We moved up two spots in the AP thanks to 3rd losses by both Texas and Georgetown, and just one spot in the Coaches thanks again to that Texas loss. Will this be the highest we go? There’s going to be a [...]
Syracuse has reached the dizzying heights once again in the new Coaches poll, sliding into the #9 perch — one spot higher than predicted thanks to a jump over a certain team from Washington, DC. I’m sure at least one blog will take note of that. In the AP poll, we moved up to the [...]
When the new polls come out tomorrow afternoon, SU will almost certainly be ranked in the top ten in the Coaches poll (perhaps not the AP poll quite yet). Purdue and Notre Dame both lost their last game, giving us exactly the opening to move from an 11th place tie to alone at #10. Georgetown [...]