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 [...]
A few weeks back I suggested on Twitter that someone should go Tonya Harding on Luke Harangody to preserve Lawrence Moten’s Big East career scoring record. It just didn’t seem fair for the record to be broken just because a guy takes 25 shots a game for four years. Well I guess someone out there [...]
January 19, 2010 – 4:51 am
Another game, another quality road win for the Syracuse Orangemen. And not one of these ‘friendly’ road games that people seem to not to want to give us credit for. (Hey, can we help it if nobody in New Jersey wants to buy tickets to watch Seton Hall or Rutgers? Sorry Pat Forde.) Notre Dame’s [...]
Luke Harangody pulled his name out of the draft and will play his final season for the Irish. Grand.
Other than Thabeet this is the last player I would have liked to see back in the league. Although he proved himself overrated last season, he remained incredibly annoying. Also, I’m pissed in general to hear any [...]
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 [...]
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This is a little embarrasing for the Big East, but after all the talk it looks like only seven teams are going to be dancing in a couple weeks. All those concerns about the league eating its own turned out to be valid, but not in the way that people thought. Rather than all the [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
January 26, 2009 – 1:22 am
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 [...]
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