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Welcome to Martin Luther King Jr Day!
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.)[1] is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King's birthday, January 15. The holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.
King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.
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UNC junior forward Justin Jackson is one of three Tar Heels who started against Syracuse early last April in an NCAA tournament national semifinal
UNC vs. Syracuse: Things to know (newsobserver)
SYRACUSE AT NO. 11 NORTH CAROLINA
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Smith Center, Chapel Hill
TV/Radio: ESPN/106.1-WTKK
Projected starting lineups
North Carolina (16-3, 4-1 ACC)
G Joel Berry 16.2 ppg, 4.4 apg
G Kenny Williams 7.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg
F Justin Jackson 17.9 ppg, 4.8 rpg
F Isaiah Hicks 12.7 ppg, 5.3 rpg
F Kennedy Meeks 12.5 ppg, 9.5 rpg
Syracuse (11-7, 3-2)
G John Gillon 9.2 ppg, 5 apg
G Tyus Battle 9.7 ppg, 1.7 rpg
F Andrew White III 15.8 ppg, 4.7 rpg
F Tyler Lydon 13.8 ppg, 7 rpg
F Taurean Thompson 9.2 ppg, 3.6 rpg
Three things to know
▪ Here comes another zone defense against the Tar Heels.
UNC struggled – to put it mildly – against a zone defense in a loss on Dec. 31 at Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets' that day ran a 1-3-1 that helped limit the Tar Heels to 63 points, their lowest output of the season. Syracuse, as always, plays a 2-3 zone that, at times, has flustered UNC since the Orange joined the ACC. Last year, the Tar Heels got the better of that zone three times, including in an NCAA tournament national semifinal. The first time, at Syracuse, UNC successfully used a high-low game with Brice Johnson and Isaiah Hicks. The Tar Heels could try to replicate that with Hicks and Kennedy Meeks, though Syracuse adjusted to that when the teams played in Chapel Hill early last March.
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North Carolina’s Theo Pinson (1) looks recovered from foot surgery, getting 12 points and 10 rebounds in Saturday’s win against Florida State.
Monday’s college basketball: North Carolina hosts new-look Syracuse (charlotteobserver.com)
SYRACUSE (11-7, 3-2 ACC)
at No. 11 NORTH CAROLINA (16-3, 4-1)
Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill, 7 p.m. ESPN
Some are billing this as a rematch of last year’s Final Four semifinal that the Tar Heels won, but Syracuse is a different team. Graduate transfer point guard John Gillon has helped stabilize the Orange offense, averaging five assists a game since Christmas. Theo Pinson looks recovered from foot surgery, getting 12 points and 10 rebounds in Saturday’s victory against Florida State.
The road is especially unwelcoming in the ACC this season (charlotteobserver.com; Carter)
Winning road games in the ACC is difficult. One day you’re triumphantly taking down a conference opponent on its home court, and then you wake up and realize it has been 1,089 days, and counting, since your most recent ACC road victory.
Where does the time go, Wake Forest?
The Demon Deacons won at Virginia Tech on Jan. 22, 2014. And since? They’ve lost 25 consecutive road games in conference play, including a pair of 0-9 records on the road in the ACC in each of the past two seasons.
Wake Forest has taken road futility to new, miserable heights in recent seasons. But misery loves company, as the old saying goes, and the Demon Deacons certainly aren’t alone in their inability to win on the road. Especially this season.
It’s early, yet, only two weeks into conference play. If the current trend continues, though, this will be the worst year for ACC road teams since the conference became a 15-team league in time for the 2013-14 season. Through Sunday night, and Georgia Tech’s 86-76 victory at N.C. State, road teams were 12-25 in conference play.
If percentages are more your thing, road teams are winning about 30.5 percent of the time in the ACC. That’s the lowest percentage, by a pretty good margin, since the expansion to 15 teams. Granted, two weeks doesn’t provide a voluminous sample size.
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Syracuse basketball vs. North Carolina: 10 things to watch for (PS; photo gallery; Waters)
Syracuse and North Carolina last met in the 2016 Final Four in Houston. Both teams have lost key players since then. Syracuse lost seniors Michael Gbinije and Trevor Cooney plus freshman Malachi Richardson (pictured). Richardson is now with the Sacramento Kings. North Carolina lost guard Marcus Paige and forward Brice Johnson (on left), who is now with the Los Angeles Clippers. Richardson had 17 points in the Final Four matchup, while Johnson had 19. Cooney scored 22 points, while Gbinije added 12. Paige had 13 for the Tar Heels.
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Beat writers predict Syracuse men's basketball to fall at No. 11 North Carolina (DO; Staff)
About 24 hours after blowing out Boston College in the Carrier, Syracuse (11-7, 3-2 Atlantic Coast) headed for the airport en route to North Carolina. An Orange team that has won three of its last four will face off against the No. 11 Tar Heels (16-3, 4-1), who just beat No. 9 Florida State 96-83. The SU-UNC 2016 Final Four rematch starts Monday at 7 p.m. and will air nationally on ESPN.
Our beat writers explain below why they think SU will fall to UNC.
Connor Grossman (10-8)
Winter blues
North Carolina 72, Syracuse 64
Against Georgia Tech earlier this season, North Carolina floundered against a zone defense. The Tar Heels’ 63 points against the Yellow Jackets is the fewest its scored all year, and Georgia Tech has continued to surprise at the onset of conference play. But don’t expect North Carolina to get tripped up again. UNC is coming off a convincing win against Florida State — a team now believed to be among the ACC’s best — and simply has the personnel to outmatch Syracuse. Off the glass, behind the arc and on the scoreboard, North Carolina edges the Orange in almost all facets.
Matt Schneidman (9-9)
Rammed
North Carolina 79, Syracuse 70
North Carolina is the best offensive rebounding team in the country, according to Kenpom.com, and that bodes terribly for a Syracuse team susceptible to giving up second-chance opportunities. The Tar Heels boast arguably the ACC’s best frontcourt with Justin Jackson, Kennedy Meeks and Isaiah Hicks, a trio that will give SU’s front line fits on the glass. It will take a Herculean effort from at least two Syracuse players to pull off the upset, and I just don’t see the Orange having that in them in the raucous Dean Dome on Monday night.
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Mika Adams-Woods of Bishop Ludden drives to the basket between CBA defenders Jack Carpenter and Kevin Underwood.
Unholy run helps Bishop Ludden crush cold-shooting CBA in Zebra Classic (video) (PS; video; Webb)
The scope of the run left both sides in the fierce Holy War rivalry stunned. It was jarring, unexpected for Bishop Ludden. It proved fatal for Christian Brothers Academy.
It happened. It was clearly the ball game, too.
The Gaelic Knights went on a 24-0 run against the Brothers in the second and third quarters and rode away with a 53-41 victory over their arch rivals in the boys high school basketball headliner of the Pathfinder Bank Zebra Classic Saturday night at Le Moyne College's Henninger Athletic Center.
CBA led 17-14 early in the second quarter.
The next time the Brothers scored with 4 minutes left in the third quarter, they were trailing 38-17.
And that was the ball game.
Mika Adams-Woods led Bishop Ludden with 21 points. Joe Connor added 11.
Kevin Underwood led CBA with 17. Dan Damico chipped in 14.
"To me, it feels like another win," said Adams-Woods. "We've just got to get in the gym and keep pushing. This is another win."
Mika Adams-Woods with dunk as @bishopludden leads @CBAUpdate 36-17 early third quarter of @ZebraClassic. Woods with 15. pic.twitter.com/ZoFfQ3a4Y5
— Donnie Webb (@Donnie_Webb) January 15, 2017
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.)[1] is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King's birthday, January 15. The holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.
King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.
SU News
UNC junior forward Justin Jackson is one of three Tar Heels who started against Syracuse early last April in an NCAA tournament national semifinal
UNC vs. Syracuse: Things to know (newsobserver)
SYRACUSE AT NO. 11 NORTH CAROLINA
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Smith Center, Chapel Hill
TV/Radio: ESPN/106.1-WTKK
Projected starting lineups
North Carolina (16-3, 4-1 ACC)
G Joel Berry 16.2 ppg, 4.4 apg
G Kenny Williams 7.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg
F Justin Jackson 17.9 ppg, 4.8 rpg
F Isaiah Hicks 12.7 ppg, 5.3 rpg
F Kennedy Meeks 12.5 ppg, 9.5 rpg
Syracuse (11-7, 3-2)
G John Gillon 9.2 ppg, 5 apg
G Tyus Battle 9.7 ppg, 1.7 rpg
F Andrew White III 15.8 ppg, 4.7 rpg
F Tyler Lydon 13.8 ppg, 7 rpg
F Taurean Thompson 9.2 ppg, 3.6 rpg
Three things to know
▪ Here comes another zone defense against the Tar Heels.
UNC struggled – to put it mildly – against a zone defense in a loss on Dec. 31 at Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets' that day ran a 1-3-1 that helped limit the Tar Heels to 63 points, their lowest output of the season. Syracuse, as always, plays a 2-3 zone that, at times, has flustered UNC since the Orange joined the ACC. Last year, the Tar Heels got the better of that zone three times, including in an NCAA tournament national semifinal. The first time, at Syracuse, UNC successfully used a high-low game with Brice Johnson and Isaiah Hicks. The Tar Heels could try to replicate that with Hicks and Kennedy Meeks, though Syracuse adjusted to that when the teams played in Chapel Hill early last March.
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North Carolina’s Theo Pinson (1) looks recovered from foot surgery, getting 12 points and 10 rebounds in Saturday’s win against Florida State.
Monday’s college basketball: North Carolina hosts new-look Syracuse (charlotteobserver.com)
SYRACUSE (11-7, 3-2 ACC)
at No. 11 NORTH CAROLINA (16-3, 4-1)
Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill, 7 p.m. ESPN
Some are billing this as a rematch of last year’s Final Four semifinal that the Tar Heels won, but Syracuse is a different team. Graduate transfer point guard John Gillon has helped stabilize the Orange offense, averaging five assists a game since Christmas. Theo Pinson looks recovered from foot surgery, getting 12 points and 10 rebounds in Saturday’s victory against Florida State.
The road is especially unwelcoming in the ACC this season (charlotteobserver.com; Carter)
Winning road games in the ACC is difficult. One day you’re triumphantly taking down a conference opponent on its home court, and then you wake up and realize it has been 1,089 days, and counting, since your most recent ACC road victory.
Where does the time go, Wake Forest?
The Demon Deacons won at Virginia Tech on Jan. 22, 2014. And since? They’ve lost 25 consecutive road games in conference play, including a pair of 0-9 records on the road in the ACC in each of the past two seasons.
Wake Forest has taken road futility to new, miserable heights in recent seasons. But misery loves company, as the old saying goes, and the Demon Deacons certainly aren’t alone in their inability to win on the road. Especially this season.
It’s early, yet, only two weeks into conference play. If the current trend continues, though, this will be the worst year for ACC road teams since the conference became a 15-team league in time for the 2013-14 season. Through Sunday night, and Georgia Tech’s 86-76 victory at N.C. State, road teams were 12-25 in conference play.
If percentages are more your thing, road teams are winning about 30.5 percent of the time in the ACC. That’s the lowest percentage, by a pretty good margin, since the expansion to 15 teams. Granted, two weeks doesn’t provide a voluminous sample size.
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Syracuse basketball vs. North Carolina: 10 things to watch for (PS; photo gallery; Waters)
Syracuse and North Carolina last met in the 2016 Final Four in Houston. Both teams have lost key players since then. Syracuse lost seniors Michael Gbinije and Trevor Cooney plus freshman Malachi Richardson (pictured). Richardson is now with the Sacramento Kings. North Carolina lost guard Marcus Paige and forward Brice Johnson (on left), who is now with the Los Angeles Clippers. Richardson had 17 points in the Final Four matchup, while Johnson had 19. Cooney scored 22 points, while Gbinije added 12. Paige had 13 for the Tar Heels.
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Beat writers predict Syracuse men's basketball to fall at No. 11 North Carolina (DO; Staff)
About 24 hours after blowing out Boston College in the Carrier, Syracuse (11-7, 3-2 Atlantic Coast) headed for the airport en route to North Carolina. An Orange team that has won three of its last four will face off against the No. 11 Tar Heels (16-3, 4-1), who just beat No. 9 Florida State 96-83. The SU-UNC 2016 Final Four rematch starts Monday at 7 p.m. and will air nationally on ESPN.
Our beat writers explain below why they think SU will fall to UNC.
Connor Grossman (10-8)
Winter blues
North Carolina 72, Syracuse 64
Against Georgia Tech earlier this season, North Carolina floundered against a zone defense. The Tar Heels’ 63 points against the Yellow Jackets is the fewest its scored all year, and Georgia Tech has continued to surprise at the onset of conference play. But don’t expect North Carolina to get tripped up again. UNC is coming off a convincing win against Florida State — a team now believed to be among the ACC’s best — and simply has the personnel to outmatch Syracuse. Off the glass, behind the arc and on the scoreboard, North Carolina edges the Orange in almost all facets.
Matt Schneidman (9-9)
Rammed
North Carolina 79, Syracuse 70
North Carolina is the best offensive rebounding team in the country, according to Kenpom.com, and that bodes terribly for a Syracuse team susceptible to giving up second-chance opportunities. The Tar Heels boast arguably the ACC’s best frontcourt with Justin Jackson, Kennedy Meeks and Isaiah Hicks, a trio that will give SU’s front line fits on the glass. It will take a Herculean effort from at least two Syracuse players to pull off the upset, and I just don’t see the Orange having that in them in the raucous Dean Dome on Monday night.
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Other
Mika Adams-Woods of Bishop Ludden drives to the basket between CBA defenders Jack Carpenter and Kevin Underwood.
Unholy run helps Bishop Ludden crush cold-shooting CBA in Zebra Classic (video) (PS; video; Webb)
The scope of the run left both sides in the fierce Holy War rivalry stunned. It was jarring, unexpected for Bishop Ludden. It proved fatal for Christian Brothers Academy.
It happened. It was clearly the ball game, too.
The Gaelic Knights went on a 24-0 run against the Brothers in the second and third quarters and rode away with a 53-41 victory over their arch rivals in the boys high school basketball headliner of the Pathfinder Bank Zebra Classic Saturday night at Le Moyne College's Henninger Athletic Center.
CBA led 17-14 early in the second quarter.
The next time the Brothers scored with 4 minutes left in the third quarter, they were trailing 38-17.
And that was the ball game.
Mika Adams-Woods led Bishop Ludden with 21 points. Joe Connor added 11.
Kevin Underwood led CBA with 17. Dan Damico chipped in 14.
"To me, it feels like another win," said Adams-Woods. "We've just got to get in the gym and keep pushing. This is another win."
Mika Adams-Woods with dunk as @bishopludden leads @CBAUpdate 36-17 early third quarter of @ZebraClassic. Woods with 15. pic.twitter.com/ZoFfQ3a4Y5
— Donnie Webb (@Donnie_Webb) January 15, 2017
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