Category Archives: DePaul

softest team in the Big East?

February 9, 2009 – 6:26 pm

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 [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in Big East, Cincinnati, Defense, Georgetown, Losses, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pitt, Providence, Rutgers, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. John's, UConn, Villanova, West Virginia University | Comments (4)

the value of 4-0

January 14, 2009 – 1:02 am

Lets do some math.
The Big East is essentially a two tier league. There are 9 great teams bound for the NCAA Tournament making up the top tier, and 7 teams of varying degrees of suckness making up the bottom tier.  If there’s a middle tier at all, it’s a tier of one: Providence.  They appear [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in Big East, Cincinnati, Conference Games, Georgetown, Providence, Rutgers, Seton Hall, South Florida, Wins | Comments (0)

AO coast to coast

January 8, 2009 – 4:07 pm

Hat tip to Sean for doing the work to find this clip from the DePaul game.  There were at least 3 or 4 Dome rocking highlights on Wednesday night, but this one takes the cake for the sheer improbability of it all. Reminiscent of Kristof’s sprint against Marquette last year, this one comes off a [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in Arinze Onuaku, Kristof Ongenaet, Marquette, Wins | Comments (1)

Syracuse Orange: ridiculously solid

January 8, 2009 – 12:24 am

Jonny Flynn’s line score against DePaul tonight doesn’t look particularly spectacular, but if you saw the game you know he played very well. More importantly, he played with energy and intensity almost the entire game. His effort tonight went into creating offense for his teammates more than for himself, hence his 8 dimes. He also [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in Jonny Flynn, Rankings, Wins | Comments (0)

Big East Conference review, part 1

December 29, 2008 – 3:10 am

I did this last year, and it was a bit of hit, so I’m going to do it again. Here’s the concept:
Now that it’s go time for conference play around the nation, I thought I’d take a look at how the 16 teams in the Big East fared in the “preseason”. I’m going to provide [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in Big East, Cincinnati, Nonconference Games, Providence, Rutgers, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. John's, West Virginia University | Comments (5)

when there’s money on the line, it brings a certain clarity

November 19, 2008 – 5:36 pm

If you’re like me and every other Syracuse fan under the age of 65, you never, ever, read Bud Poliquin. Thus, I feel I should pass along something he wrote in a column recently, since I’m pretty sure you didn’t see it. I only saw it myself because the headline his Syracuse.com editors provided was [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in Big East, Cincinnati, Georgetown, In the Media, Louisville, Marquette, National Championship, Notre Dame, Pitt, Providence, Rankings, Rutgers, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. John's, UConn, Villanova, West Virginia University | Comments (1)

The Wisconsin of the East

January 31, 2008 – 3:33 pm

I want everyone to take a moment and think back to early December. It was a simpler, more innocent time. The President was assuring us that the economy was still strong. Rudy Giuliani was a lock to win the Republican nomination. And in the world of Syracuse basketball, we were marveling at the incredible offensive [...]

By Josh | Also posted in Conference Games, Providence, Wins, Zone defense | Comments (2)

Doctor, we have a heartbeat

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 [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in Arinze Onuaku, Conference Games, Defense, Donte Greene, Jonny Flynn, Kristof Ongenaet, Rebounding, Regular Season Games, Wins | Comments (6)

they oughta put a warning sign on this conference

January 26, 2008 – 11:09 pm

Pittsburgh lost at home tonight to Rutgers. By double digits.
Villanova, the 18th ranked team in the country, is currently under .500 in the conference and sitting in 12th place. Cincinnati and DePaul, both 9-10 on the season overall, are 4-3 in conference, putting them ahead in the standings of NCAA hopefuls like Providence, Nova, [...]

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Big East Conference review, part 1

December 31, 2007 – 3:54 pm

Now that it’s go time for conference play around the nation, I thought I’d take a look at how the 16 teams in the Big East fared in the “pre-season”. I’m going to provide a very quick snapshot of each team, going from worst to best according to the officially predicted finish provided by the [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, Cincinnati, Nonconference Games, Notre Dame, Pac 10, RPI, Rankings, Rutgers, SEC, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. John's, West Virginia University | Comments (4)