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WBB SU 63 vs SC 67 11/28/2014 8:00 @ Bahamas

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Will be playing in the Junkanoo Jam in Freeport, Bahamas 11/27 vs ECU and 11/28 vs either SC or Wisconsin.
 
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Josh Hyber‏@JoshHyber 28m28 minutes ago
In the most recent release of the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Polls, Syracuse WBB ranks No. 22 in the country.
 
Josh Hyber ‏@JoshHyber 10h10 hours ago
FINAL: After leading for most of the 2nd half, No. 22 Syracuse falls 67-63 to No. 1 South Carolina. Briana Day with 12 points and 15 rebs.
 
Syracuse Athletics ‏@Cuse 9h9 hours ago
No. 22 @CuseWBB falls short against No. 1/2 South Carolina, 67-63, at the #JunkanooJam. http://bit.ly/1A0Tfig


Orange Loses to No. 1/2 South Carolina, 67-63
Syracuse owns a 50-35 advantage on the boards
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FREEPORT, Bahamas – The No. 22 Syracuse University women's basketball team led with two minutes remaining in regulation, but could not pull off the upset against No. 1/2 South Carolina, losing 67-63 on Friday night in the 2014 Junkanoo Jam Lucaya Division championship game at St. George's High School Gymnasium.

"We had to make a decision on what we were going to do in this game," head coach Quentin Hillsman said. "Their post players are the best in the country. We had to pack our zone in and do a good job keeping them off the glass. The other things we had to do was get every loose ball and 50-50 ball. I thought we did a great job on the glass."

Despite a size disadvantage, Syracuse (4-1) controlled the boards against South Carolina (5-0). The Orange owned a 50-35 advantage on the glass. It marked the most rebounds Syracuse had pulled down in a single game during the 2014-15 season.

Sophomore center Briana Day continued her great play at the Junkanoo Jam. Day recorded her second straight double-double on 13 points and 17 rebounds. For her efforts, Day was named to All-Junkanoo Jam Team, joined by sophomore guard Alexis Peterson. Junior guard Brianna Butler led the team in scoring for the second time this year, tallying 18 points.

"Briana Day was tremendous tonight," added Hillsman. "Our game plan was to give them help. We were going to crash our forwards inside, get our guards rebounding. I thought they did a good job of doing that. Our game plan worked really well."

In its first game against the top-ranked team in the nation since Feb. 28, 2011 against Connecticut, Syracuse took it to its opponent early, building a sizeable first-half advantage. South Carolina led 10-3 at the 16:52 mark of the first half, before the Orange turned the table. Over the next eight minutes of play, Syracuse would go on a 24-5 run. Junior guard Cornelia Fondren had eight points during that run.

South Carolina would close the margin, going on a 12-0 run to take a 29-27 lead with 2:35 to play in the first half. Syracuse responded by closing out the half with a 6-2 run. Peterson hit a runner at the buzzer to give the Orange a 35-31 advantage at the half.

Out of the break, Syracuse held its momentum from its late run in the first half. The Orange led by 10 points with 6:43 remaining, but South Carolina would use an 11-0 run to take the game back.

A back and forth battle would ensue over the final three minutes of play. Day sank two free throws to give the squad a 61-60 lead with 2:06 remaining. It would be the final lead the Orange would hold, as South Carolina junior guard Asia Dozier would hit a 3-point field goal with 1:51 left and Syracuse would not be able to overcome the deficit.

The Syracuse University women's basketball team returns to the Carrier Dome for the first time since its season-opener when it takes on Vermont on Monday night. The game will begin at 7 p.m. and will be broadcast on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel.
 
Daily Orange Sports ‏@DOsports 9h9 hours ago
Syracuse relents 2nd-half lead, falls short of upsetting No. 1 South Carolina in Bahamas, @JoshHyber writes: http://bit.ly/12epiPT


Syracuse relents 2nd-half lead, falls short of upsetting No. 1 South Carolina in Bahamas
By Josh HyberStaff Writer
9 hours ago


Syracuse’s 2-3 zone packed inside the paint, sometimes without a player above the free-throw line. All game long, No. 22 SU dared No. 1 South Carolina to shoot from the perimeter.
Late in the second half, the Orange led by one, and the Gamecocks had shot just 8-of-25 from beyond the arc. But with just over three minutes to go in regulation, South Carolina’s Asia Dozier hit a 3 to give the Gamecocks their first lead of the second half.
After Dozier’s dagger, the Gamecocks (4-0) pulled away, edging the Orange with a last-minute, 67-63 victory in Friday’s championship game of the Junkanoo Jam in Freeport, Bahamas. The Orange (4-1), though, led by 10 with seven minutes to go in regulation and was minutes away from unseating the nation’s top team.
SU’s Brianna Butler scored 18 points and center Briana Day went for 13 points with 17 rebounds, but neither effort was enough in the end.
“South Carolina made a couple of plays down the stretch and won the game,” Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “But we really competed at a high level.
“… We came here to win this, and we knew we had a great game plan… We’re a top-25 basketball team and had an opportunity to beat the No. 1 team in the country. You’ve got to get that done.”
Although the Gamecocks ran out to a 10-3 lead, both sides exchanged leads a couple of times. Syracuse pulled off a 25-3 run of its own and point guard Alexis Peterson hit a circus layup at the buzzer to give the Orange a 35-31 lead at the half. It was the first time since 2008 against Connecticut in which the Orange led a No. 1 team at halftime.
Syracuse’s Isabella Slim hit a 3-pointer to give the Orange a 40-36 lead four minutes into the second half, and everything seemed to go right for the Orange. Butler then hit a pair of 3s to keep the Orange ahead, 46-41 with 12:18 to go.
Despite the Gamecocks’ lineup of three players 6 feet, 4 inches and taller, the second half belonged to Day, who scored seven of her 13 points to extend SU’s lead to 51-46.
“She was the reason why we were in that game,” Hillsman said. “She was doing a great job inside.”
The Orange led by as many as 10 in the second half. But a combination of Tina Roy 3s and shots from Tiffany Mitchell and A’ja Wilson lead to South Carolina taking its first lead of the second half, 60-59, with Dozier’s 3-pointer with 3:35 left in the game. Dozier canned another 3, a layup by Roy and a pair of Mitchell free throws iced the win for South Carolina.
Last January, Syracuse upset No. 6 North Carolina on the road, 78-73 — a win Hillsman, at the time, called the biggest victory in program history. On Friday night in the Bahamas, Syracuse was minutes away from handing that distinction to a new game, but fell a bit short.
“All of our kids played at a high level, which I’m really proud of,” Hillsman said. “But give South Carolina credit, they’re the No. 1 team in the country for a reason.”
 
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