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Orange Watch: Congratulations to Syracuse on a Top 25 Orange Year

June 3, 2013 Brad Bierman

For the first time ever, Syracuse athletics has reached the Top-25 in the NACDA Directors’ Cup standings, joining Stanford (1st), Duke (8th), and Southern California (14th) as the only private, non-state or land-grant institutions on the Top 25 list. That’s pretty impressive.

Orange Watch: Waving goodbye to the Big East

May 20, 2013 Brad Bierman

Let the record show that the SU women’s NCAA lacrosse quarterfinal round victory over Florida this past Sat. in the Dome was the final Orange victory as a Big East conference representative in the building’s 33-year history, the season after Syracuse played its first Big East basketball game in Jan. 1980.

Orange Watch: Syracuse lacrosse finds old foe waiting in NCAA semifinals

May 20, 2013 Brad Bierman

The rivalry between Syracuse’s John Desko (five championships) and Denver coach Bill Tierney (six titles) was born the May day in 1992 when Tierney’s upstart Princeton team upset Desko’s mentor and predecessor Roy Simmons Jr.’s terrific top-seeded squad, 10-9 in 2OT, in Philadelphia’s venerable Franklin Field for the ’92 NCAA championship.

Orange Watch: Source confirms Syracuse will schedule Villanova in basketball

May 5, 2013 Brad Bierman

Sources confirmed to The Juice Online at the Big East Lacrosse Championship last weekend that Villanova is headed to the Dome this coming season as part of a 1-1-1 series with the game in Syracuse.

Orange Watch: The goal for NCAA No. 1 seed Syracuse lacrosse – get to Philly

May 5, 2013 Brad Bierman

The men’s and women’s lacrosse Final Fours are both in the Philly metro area, what a Memorial Day weekend for Orange lax fans if both teams, off winning Big East championships, can advance that far.

Orange Watch: Around the league with the ACC Football coaches – Part One

April 30, 2013 Brad Bierman

Item: Last week we detailed Scott Shafer’s first go-round on a national ACC media call, Orange Watch now profiles the

Orange Watch: Syracuse coach Scott Shafer says QB battle is ‘controversial’ over who starts

April 25, 2013 Brad Bierman

Scott Shafer joined his 13 ACC counterparts on a media call Thursday to wrap up spring ball and gaze into the future of their programs, personnel, and with some coaches the upcoming College Football Playoff starting after next season.

Orange Watch: What to make of the Syracuse lacrosse season

April 23, 2013 Brad Bierman

Would you have believed it before the season if we told you that at 10-3 before facing Big East co-leader Notre Dame Saturday at MetLife Stadium, those loses would be versus Albany, Villanova and Hobart, and not among Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Princeton or Cornell?

Orange Watch: A quick four months to the Syracuse football opener

April 22, 2013 Brad Bierman

Like Doug Marrone versus Minnesota in 2009, Shafer will have a chance to watch a likely quarterback battle for the starting job before opening up in his first game also against a Big Ten opponent.

Orange Watch: Can Syracuse football grab one of the ACC’s eight bowl bids?

April 17, 2013 Brad Bierman

Coming off the spring game Saturday and heading into summer workouts and August camp, we’ll begin to find out if Syracuse is good enough in Scott Shafer’s maiden season running the show to lasso one of the eight secured conference bowl tie-ins for 2013.