SU will play in MSG next fall as part of the Coaches vs Cancer tournament. Like this year’s CBE, they’ll be in the “semifinals” in New York no matter what happens in the first two games at the Dome, along with UNC, Cal, and our MSG nemesis from last season Ohio St.
February 12, 2009 – 12:51 am
After thorough analysis of the Orange’s recent defensive performances, especially our propensity to give up a benjamin worth of points, the boys showed up tonight. Yes, Syracuse lost again to fall to 2-6 over their last eight games (they don’t call it the gauntlet for nothing), but the defense showed spark, hustle, and intensity right [...]
November 26, 2008 – 1:02 am
Tomorrow I’ll whip together a more coherent and helpful analysis of the amazing events in Kansas City tonight (and yesterday), but it’s 1 AM on the east coast and I need to crash. However, I’d be remiss in going to sleep before announcing this fact — officially — to the world:
The Syracuse University basketball team [...]
November 18, 2008 – 1:50 pm
The leitmotif of today’s media coverage previewing the SU-Richmond game this evening is that this is a serious challenge for Syracuse and that we’d better be on our game or we’re looking at an L. I’ll second that.
Here’s why we should worry: The Spiders are not a typical early season cupcake from a bullshit conference [...]
February 17, 2008 – 5:10 pm
I’ve led a charmed SU-viewing life this season. The past couple of weeks the games have been on Wednesday evenings, and I have grad school duties on Wednesday nights. These duties prevented me from catching anything but the last 5 minutes of the UConn and USF games. If you remember, against UConn and USF the [...]
January 31, 2008 – 2:55 am
One of the benefits of watching tonight’s game against DePaul in a sports bar on West 3rd is that I didn’t have to hear one word out of Mike Jarvis. One of the drawbacks, however, is that the level of beer consumption the environment inspired diluted the clarity of my in-game observations. In other [...]
January 24, 2008 – 12:45 am
It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but the reality is that this year is not so far off the tracks as it might feel. In fact, so far things have gone almost exactly as some of us predicted. It’s painful to go through while you experience it, but the truth is only the Cincinnati game [...]
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January 7, 2008 – 10:56 pm
Syracuse is, as you read this, ranked ninth in the college basketball ratings percentage index, and the owner of the second most challenging list of opponents in all the land. This may the first time in history SU has achieved the stat mentioned in the second clause of that sentence. The Orange is also sitting [...]
January 5, 2008 – 2:55 pm
Well that answered a couple of questions. We all know how Onuaku dominated the post in the St. John’s game, when all they could throw at him was a succession of skinny dudes. And if you are like me you were wondering whether he’d be as effective picking on someone his own size — someone [...]
January 4, 2008 – 5:03 pm
First some blogosphere stuff: we just added an impressive new Syracuse-related blog to the roll on the right. Many of the other Syracuse blogs already picked up on them, but we’re also psyched about CuseAdelphia, we’re just a little slow on the uptake. It’s a group of journalism guys at SU, blogging about Syracuse sports [...]