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Orange Watch: Syracuse basketball and quest for regular season perfection

February 17, 2014 Brad Bierman

On this President’s Day holiday with rapidly only six regular season games left for No. 1 ranked Syracuse basketball to navigate in ACC play, Jim Boeheim’s 38th team has dazzled Orange Nation in unprecedented fashion.

Orange Watch: Talk of Syracuse benefiting from loss before ACC Tournament foolish

February 11, 2014 Brad Bierman

We’ve never understood the logic of it being a good result by losing a game, especially for a No. 1 ranked Syracuse basketball team that always prepares to win all of its contests, and, in fact, has done exactly that so far against all 23 of its opponents.

Orange Watch: 2014 Syracuse football schedule has its ups and downs

January 27, 2014 Brad Bierman

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: Is ACC conference change coming for Syracuse football?

January 20, 2014 Brad Bierman

Syracuse and the rest of the ACC will discuss various models of adjustments to its football division alignment and future scheduling at the league’s upcoming winter meetings.

Orange Watch: Base built for Syracuse football to start long bowl game streak

December 26, 2013 Brad Bierman

In the modern era of Syracuse football, that being from Ben Schwartzwalder’s debut in 1949 to present, there have been three separate periods in which Syracuse football was a regular participant in bowl games.

Orange Watch: Talent spigot for Syracuse basketball gushing at full blast

December 19, 2013 Brad Bierman

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 football awaits its post season locale

December 5, 2013 Brad Bierman

While speculation remains rampant three days before the entire 35 game bowl lineup is announced, and the ubiquitous bowl game prognosticators are giving it their best shot trying to accurately forecast Syracuse’s destination.

Orange Watch: Syracuse basketball will never lose to Indiana again

December 5, 2013 Brad Bierman

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

November 25, 2013 Brad Bierman

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.

Orange Watch: Duke a model as Syracuse football tries to rise in ACC hierarchy

November 19, 2013 Brad Bierman

When we wrote last spring sensing a future ACC rivalry with Duke following the Blue Devils NCAA Lacrosse Championship game victory over SU in Philadelphia, we spotlighted a couple of reasons for the budding competition including the obvious smaller, private school similarity.