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Orange Watch Friday: Familiar Final Four Trip on the Horizon?

October 14, 2011 Brad Bierman

It may be the newly-named Mercedes-Benz Superdome where the SU football team won its fourth game of the season as the clock struck zero last Saturday night against Tulane, but to most ‘Cuse fans it will always be the Louisiana Superdome, or simply the Superdome, a venue that’s second to none when it comes to naming the site that has hosted the most number of meaningful SU football and basketball games played outside the city of Syracuse.

Orange Watch: The Logical Texas Two Step

October 7, 2011 Brad Bierman

Trivia Time: Who’s the only Big East team in history to go undefeated in all 18 men’s and women’s sponsored sports? Why, of course, it’s TCU, the trick answer to the trick question, that now has truly made the future of the Big East football conference, at least as a BCS member down the road, well… tricky.

Orange Watch: A Long Day in the Dome Ends in Defeat

October 2, 2011 Brad Bierman

There’s a trend going on at the Dome this fall, tie games at the end of regulation.

Orange Watch: In the end, Syracuse “Fired” the Big East

September 19, 2011 Brad Bierman

Welcome to the ACC, my Orange friends. Somewhere on Cape Cod, or his exact whereabouts this day, retired athletic director Jake Crouthamel has to be smiling and mourning.

Orange Watch Friday: A Geography and History Lesson

September 16, 2011 Brad Bierman

The members of the SU football traveling contingent awoke in their hotel in the Southland Friday morning, the vast area of Southern California covering nine counties and home to the nation’s second largest metropolitan area with some 17 million residents, and certainly a long way from central New York both geographically, culturally, and meteorologically.

Orange Watch Friday: Where will the ‘Cuse call home?

September 9, 2011 Brad Bierman

Whirlwind may turn out to be too tame a word to describe the inevitable change coming to college football conferences beginning as soon as next season, and certainly in the years heading into the mid-decade. With billions of TV dollars at stake, especially with new media players arriving to drive up rights fees, and an ever-increasing number of platforms to deliver the programming, it’s certainly not a matter of if, but when.

Orange Watch Friday: Opening against a FCS opponent

September 3, 2011 Brad Bierman

It has always baffled me why some teams open up the college football season with much tougher opponents than others. Look at Maryland and Miami meeting Monday night, an ACC conference game for crying out loud, while a team like Rutgers goes the complete opposite direction hosting and romping over FCS foe North Carolina Central, and a program like SU splits the difference by opening with and hosting a BCS opponent in Wake Forest squeaking by in OT.

Is next season the second-to-last of the Boeheim Era?

March 26, 2011 Brad Bierman

The end of the most glorious era in Syracuse basketball history is closer than you think.

A rare conference game in the NCAA tournament

March 19, 2011 Brad Bierman

The format worked great with 65 teams. It was always fun to see which coaches would be pleading their case after being left out on Selection Sunday night, and usually, but not always, all one had to do was check that team’s early-season schedule strength to see why.

More great NCAA tournament games on the horizon?

March 14, 2011 Brad Bierman

SU will begin with a weekend trip to Cleveland to face an Indiana State team that finished third in the Missouri Valley Conference season and then won the conference tournament on its home court in the championship game against Missouri State.