Category Archives: St. John's

Orange > Red

March 2, 2010 – 12:45 am

Now that SU has been established atop the polls, the task turns to staying there. We can worry about the BET later on, but there are two regular-season games remaining against red teams that the Orange will have to win in order to stay on top when next week’s poll — the last poll before [...]

By Josh | Also posted in syracuse | Comments (0)

It’s clobberin’ time!

October 2, 2009 – 12:34 pm

So I pop over to My Yahoo to check my fantasy football team and behold the content that has arrived:

Halleluia and Hail Boeheim! The basketball schedule is complete! To quote a wise philosopher, “Let’s get it started in here.”
The full schedule can be found here. The highlights:
Coaches vs. Cancer in MSG on Nov 19/20. We [...]

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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, DePaul, Defense, Georgetown, Losses, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pitt, Providence, Rutgers, Seton Hall, South Florida, UConn, Villanova, West Virginia University | Comments (4)

lets go ahead and win this one, please

January 28, 2009 – 5:35 pm

Tonight will be the first SU game of the year that I’m not going to see, which is annoying since it’s unusually important for a game against Providence. Not that it qualifies as “must win” in the way that Syracuse is used to over the past few years. An NCAA birth is not on the [...]

By Syracusan | Also posted in Andy Rautins, Arinze Onuaku, Georgetown, Mookie Jones, NCAA Tournament, Notre Dame, Providence, RPI, Seton Hall, Zone defense | Comments (2)

moving on

January 3, 2009 – 4:50 pm

The USF game is over and behind us. 2-0 in the Big East is 2-0 in the Big East. 14-1 is 14-1. A road win is a road win. What happened in the second half of that game is inconsequential. How unbelievably horrendous we looked is inconsequential.
For those concerned about our team, consider this: #10 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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not enough PT for all the PTPers?

November 17, 2008 – 4:12 pm

Anybody else gleefully notice how Jimmy used almost all his timeouts in the Le Moyne game, despite the fact we had the game completely in hand after about two minutes? He had no hesitation to burn a TO whenever he wanted to scream at coach up the guys after a bonehead play. He also used [...]

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Late to the news

July 30, 2008 – 12:27 pm

The tubes are a-buzzin’ with the news that Donte Greene was traded to the Kings in two weeks. (Two weeks because the trade can’t be made official until 8/14, since Donte just signed his deal on 7/14.) This is actually good news for Donte’s future. Sacramento is in full-on rebuilding mode, so Donte should get [...]

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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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