Syracuse Basketball

Brittney Sykes' Legacy With Syracuse Women's Basketball

... game in the Carrier Dome will come Thursday against Wake Forest, on a night when the program honors fellow seniors Alexis Peterson, Isabella Slim, Briana Day and Bria Day. Sykes will leave at the very top of the list of all-time great Syracuse players. She ranks fourth in school history with 1,737 points scored, second with 633 field goals made, third with 132 starts, fourth with 385 free throws made and fifth with 258 career steals. Those accomplishments speak to Sykes' talent as a basketball player. What truly measures the mark Sykes leaves on the program, however, is the drive she showed to put herself in position to ring up those numbers. It came via a hard lesson. Using her own analogy, it rained a lot on Sykes during her time at SU in the form of those two knee injuries. At first, she didn't like getting wet. And then she figured out a better way to deal with that issue, one that more appropriately fit with a personality that tries ...

Syracuse Basketball Beats Duke On John Gillon's Buzzer-beating 3-pointer

... - Fan Sports Clips (@Fan Sports Clips) February 23, 2017. Duke's Luke Kennard missed a mid-range shot with 8 seconds left that could've given the Blue Devils the lead. Tyler Lydon rebounded the ball. He threw it to Tyus Battle, who quickly passed it to Gillon. Gillon, the 6-foot point point, raced up the court and pulled up as he reached the top of the key. His shot was on line, but long. Long enough to bank off the backboard and straight through the net. It was Syracuse's third win over a Top 10 team this season and it might well have sealed an NCAA tournament bid for the Orange. Syracuse improved to 17-12 overall and 9-7 in the ACC. The win snapped Syracuse's three-game losing streak in a most dramatic fashion. Duke had won seven consecutive games. The Blue Devils fell to 22-6 overall and 10-5 in the ACC. Syracuse Orange fans celebrate win over Duke. Gillon finished with 26 points. Earlier this season, Gillon hit a last-second 3-pointer to send Syracuse's game at North Carolina State into overtime. Syracuse freshman Tyus Battle finished with 18 points. Just a ...

Fab Melo Deserves More Respect In Death; Syracuse Basketball Needs Its Bench Emails

... the heavy lifting. Have you got something that you'd like to say. um, write? Well, here's your chance and here's your forum. All you have to do is send along your correspondence (with your name and the identity of your hometown) to __link__. Do that, and more likely than not your words will see the digital light of day in this thin patch of cyberspace. Have at it. After reading some of the vile tweets and other comments following the recent passing of Fab Melo, the former Syracuse University basketball player, I wanted to share my thoughts on the subject. In her amazing book on the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, "Team of Rivals," Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote that when Lincoln became upset with any of his generals and/or certain elected officials during the Civil War, he would sit down and write an angry letter to them. ...

Syracuse Basketball Needs To Avoid Need For More Comebacks

... those games that we won. At least. These guys fight. They fight as hard as you can fight.'. Syracuse basketball coach Boeheim's Louisville post-game press conference. Syracuse's comeback against Louisville might have been the most unlikely of their recent series of comebacks. Louisville came in as the No. 9 team in the country. More importantly, Louisville coach Rick Pitino had his full complement of players for the first time in three weeks. Starting point guard Quentin Snider was back after missing six games due to a strained hip flexor, while Deng Adel and Mangok Mathiang had served their one-game suspensions for a curfew violation. In addition, Syracuse was essentially down a man. Tyus Battle, who had been battling flu-like symptoms for a week, managed just two points in 26 minutes. The game looked over early when Louisville jumped out to a 29-17 lead. Syracuse pulled to within four points by halftime. But the Orange looked beat when it trailed 5-48 with two minutes remaining in the game. "When ...

B.j. Johnson Finds New Basketball Life After Transfer From Syracuse

... Syracuse. bj with ball.jpg. Former Syracuse basketball forward B. J. Johnson, now a star at La Salle, drives against St. Bonaventure in the Reilly Center on Feb. 15, 2017. (Josh Harrison). Olean, N. Y. - The dunk was vintage B. J. Johnson. Anyone who regularly watched Syracuse basketball practices or saw Johnson play with the Orange could summon a similar memory. Johnson, sneaking along the baseline, soared for a pass at the rim Wednesday night in the Reilly Center and slammed it with one hand, a rim-rattler that hushed the St. Bonaventure crowd. "One of my teammates drove, my man turned his head," Johnson said, "and I just cut back door and my teammate found me and I got the dunk.". Johnson, equally spare and reserved with words when he was at Syracuse, has found new basketball life at La Salle, close to his hometown of Lower Merion, Pa., and the alma mater of his dad. Johnson and the Explorers lost to the Bonnies 83-65 Wednesday in a game that was ...

Su’s Clichéd Path To The Big Dance

... against Rick “Have You Heard I Used to Coach with Boeheim” Pitino. Weird shit has happened this season, but that’s a little too out there. Still, getting two wins out of those four? Yeah, I can buy that happening. I’d guess the potentially “easiest” way to accomplish that could be in sweeping Georgia Tech; very doable. Not to mention, beating the Yellow Jackets twice would put a check next to important accomplishments: 1) Help cement Syracuse’s status for the committee, and 2) possibly eliminate the Rambling Wreck from contention. That last point is very important because the Jackets look a little like the Orange. It’s a team with a rather unsightly overall record (15-11), but one with some marquee home wins (North Carolina, Florida State (by 22!) and Notre Dame). It’s done nothing on the road but not many bubble teams have. Georgia Tech is like about every other just-barely-mediocre ...

Where Does Syracuse Basketball Stand With 3 Games To Play

... Georgia Tech vs. No. 15 seed Boston College. Right now, Georgia Tech is tied with Virginia Tech at 7-7 in the conference, but the Hokies won the only regular season matchup. Right now, that's the difference between a first-round bye and having to play on Tuesday. 7 p.m. No. 11 seed Wake Forest vs. No. 14 seed N. C. State. Wake Forest (6-9) still has a chance to earn a first-round bye. The Demon Deacons finish the regular season with a key game at Virginia Tech. But if things don't change, Wake Forest will be looking at a dangerous N. C. State team and its already-canned coach Mark Gottfried. SECOND ROUND. No. 8 seed Syracuse vs. No. 9 seed Va. Tech. Two weeks ago, Syracuse (8-7) was on the verge of a double-bye. After three straight losses, Syracuse is clinging to a first-round bye. ...

What Prompted A Syracuse Fan To Call Georgia Tech's Josh Pastner With A Complaint

... One Syracuse fan was so offended by the "air-ball" chants, they decided to go right to the top with a complaint. Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner shared the story on his radio show on Monday. "I got an interesting phone call, it was a funny phone call, someone called to leave me a message and they needed to talk to me," Pastner said. "It was a Syracuse fan and they said they were very upset at Georgia Tech. They felt there was something very unclassy about Georgia Tech and just not right.". Pastner revealed that when he called the Syracuse fan back, they were upset with the "air-ball" chants the Yellow Jacket student section directed at Gillon, saying they were unclassy. "I said, sir, a few things with all due respect," Pastner said. "This is not intramurals nor is it the 'Love Boat' where everyone gets served cocktails at 4 p.m. I said this is men's elite college basketball and I said the air-ball chant has gone around since Dr. James Naismith invented the game. I said, I guarantee you if one of our guys airballed the ball at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, ...

Jim Boeheim 'won't Go Quietly' From Syracuse Basketball

... on executing that which has been put in place.". Thamel writes that Boeheim's exit from Syracuse may not be that simple. The reality here is that Boeheim was essentially forced out because of Syracuse's significant NCAA issues. This doesn't sit well with him. People close to him still hold the belief that he'll somehow figure out a way to coach past next season. (Boeheim has remained relatively quiet on the topic, saying little publically about the transition to Hopkins.) The read here is that it offends Boeheim's ego and competitiveness that he's being told to leave a place that he willed into being a top-echelon college job in his 41 seasons as head coach. Boeheim disputed the notion that he has been ambiguous about his future  when speaking at the Final Four last year. "I disagree, I don't think I've ever said that," Boeheim said last March, when it was stated that he had been ambiguous. "Well, nobody knows. It ...