As a freshman during the 2009-2010 Syracuse basketball season, the Orange ascended to the No. 1 ranking in March, a culmination of a season spent emerging from the ranks of the unranked.
This Syracuse Orange team just flat-out wins basketball games. They walk out on the court, usually stumble out of the gate and fall behind for a little, and then somehow, someway, find a means to sprint to victory: eighteen and counting.
Fortunately for Syracuse, Dajuan Coleman’s injury doesn’t carry the same magnitude as Onuaku or Melo. Coleman is part of a three center rotation with Rakeem Christmas and Baye Moussa Keita.
Steve Ishmael has had Syracuse at the top of his list for a very long time and the visit did nothing to change that. In fact, I was talking to him while he was at the airport, waiting for his flight to go home, and he said he really didn’t want to leave.
The Syracuse men’s lacrosse team received not one, but two exciting gifts after the holiday break, and they may make all the difference by the end of the 2014 campaign.
Christmas’s offensive stats are way up. He’s shooting an absurd 74% from the field compared to 53% last year. His rebounding and blocks are slightly down, but he’s more than making up for that with his efficiency at the offensive end.
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.
After leading for most of the day, #2 Syracuse needed to close the game with a 10-2 run to pull out a hard-fought 59-54 win over #22 Pittsburgh at the Carrier Dome.
In what can only be described as a classic Big East game played in the ACC, Pittsburgh and Syracuse played a low-scoring, toughly contested defensive battle to the bitter end.