Anyone else starting to think that Syracuse’s preseason loss to LeMoyne was actually a ploy, designed to give the rest of Division I a false sense of security? Because based on what we’ve seen from the Orange since then, I’m having a hard time understanding how any Division II team could roll with Jim Boeheim’s [...]
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After losing players like Connecticut’s Hasheem Thabeet and A.J. Price, Pitt’s Sam Young, DeJuan Blair and LeVance Fields, Syracuse’s Jonny Flynn, Louisville’s Terrence Williams and Villanova’s Dante Cunningham to graduation and the NBA Draft, this was supposed to be a “down” year for the Big East. Hasn’t really worked out that way. The conference boasts [...]
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I believe we can officially put the “which conference is toughest” discussion to bed. Here’s a look at the number of teams each conference sent to the 2009 Sweet Sixteen: ACC – 2 (North Carolina, Duke) Big 10 – 2 (Michigan State, Purdue) Pac 10 – 1 (Arizona) Big 12 – 3 (Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas) [...]
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It is hard to recall any player at any big-time basketball school that looks as hopeless from the free-throw line as Syracuse forward Arinze Onuaku. Onuaku shoots freebies like he’s playing a carnival game… with a ball that’s over-inflated and a shrunken rim. This season, he hit just 30 percent of his shots from the [...]
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