Orange Watch
Orange Watch: 2014 Syracuse football schedule has its ups and downs
Unless there is some sort of change to the protocol of the ACC Football composite schedule for 2015 and forward, we certainly hope the conference does not make both the Pittsburgh and Boston College matchups the annual final two regular season games, alternating odds years in the Dome and even years away.
Orange Watch: Talent spigot for Syracuse basketball gushing at full blast
With the Syracuse coach now settling into his eight man rotation which loses two scholarship players and perhaps one to two others after the season, there’s the three talented freshmen who’s minutes have come almost exclusively in non-spotlighted games so far, and a fourth, big man Chinonso Obokoh, who’s likely to officially redshirt this season.
Orange Watch: Syracuse basketball will never lose to Indiana again
Of course we know nothing compares to losing a NCAA Championship game, but there’s something we find uniquely poetic about the fact that since the Orange lost late to Bob Knight and his ’87 Indiana team in New Orleans, Jim Boeheim has not only gone 5-0 against the storied Hoosiers in the subsequent meetings, but three of the five were one-sided Orange domination.
Orange Watch: It was Boeheim vs. Pitino again, but this time with a twist for Syracuse
Like his father (a 22-point Providence loss in the Dome in ’86), Richard Pitino suffered the same result in his first meeting against Boeheim Monday in Hawaii, with C.J. Fair stepping up (16 points, 10 rebounds) following a vicious first half slam dunk that resulted in a deep, bloody cut on his cheekbone.