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Welcome to Prohibition Repeal Day!
Repeal Day celebrates the day that brought the Twenty-first Amendment into effect, after the final state needed to ratify it did so. The amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, which had prohibited the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol. Although December 5 has long since been known as "repeal day," it was not officially celebrated as such until mixologist, bartender, and writer Jeffrey Morgenthaler shared his idea for the day in 2006. He believed it was appropriate to have a holiday celebrating the drinking of alcohol on the date, since the date had more of a direct connection to drinking than holidays such as St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo—days when drinking is quite popular.
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Syracuse basketball vs. Connecticut: 10 things to watch for (PS; Waters)
The Syracuse Orange suffered its first loss of the season on Saturday to No. 2 Kansas at the HoopHall Invitational in Miami. The Orange (6-1) will look to get back in the win column on Tuesday when it faces Connecticut in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.
This the third straight year that SU and UConn have played each other and they're meeting at Madison Square Garden for the second consecutive year. Syracuse beat UConn in the Battle 4 Atlantis in the 2015-16 season. Last year, Connecticut knocked off the Orange 52-50 at the Garden.
Syracuse's top two players are guards Frank Howard (23) and Tyus Battle (25), who had 15 and 22 points, respectively in the loss to Kansas.
Connecticut brings a 6-2 record into Tuesday's game. The game is scheduled to start after the conclusion of the night's first game, featuring Villanova against Gonzaga. That game starts at 7 p.m. Both games are televised on ESPN.
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Antwoine Anderson shines in crowded depth chart as Connecticut grad transfer (DO; Heyen)
Last spring, two colleges courted Antwoine Anderson aggressively. He had just completed his redshirt junior season at Fordham and had been granted a release to use his final season of eligibility elsewhere.
Seton Hall guaranteed Anderson would play 35 minutes a game, he said. All that Anderson saw at Connecticut, which also wanted him, was a depth chart featuring three strong guards. As he’s done all his life in basketball, Anderson took the challenge.
“I didn’t want it to be easy,” Anderson said.
Anderson chose UConn (6-2). He and his Huskies teammates take on Syracuse (6-1) at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday at 9 p.m. The responsibility of guarding one or both of Syracuse’s leading scorers, Tyus Battle and Frank Howard, will likely fall to Anderson, too.
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Syracuse basketball opponent preview: What to know about Connecticut (DO; Fortier)
After Kansas overmatched Syracuse in Miami, the Orange (6-1) now faces a Connecticut (6-2) team that started the season strong but has since seemed shaky, needing overtime to beat two mid-major teams.
Here’s what to know about the Huskies:
All-time series: Syracuse leads, 55-38
Last time they played: Syracuse’s offense collapsed on Dec. 5, 2016, in a 52-50 loss to UConn at Madison Square Garden. The Orange, midway through the second half, led by 11 points but couldn’t withstand a Huskies comeback. SU made 14 baskets on 54 shots (25.9 percent shooting) and missed eight of 24 free throws.
The team’s star forward Tyler Lydon struggled, shooting 1-for-7 from the field and totaling seven points. Syracuse center Dajuan Coleman finished with 10 points and 16 rebounds.
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Beat writer Q&A: The Hartford Courant's Dom Amore breaks down struggling Huskies (DO; Fortier)
Syracuse (6-1) tips off against Connecticut (6-2) on Tuesday at 9 p.m. in Madison Square Garden. The Orange is coming off its first loss of the season, 76-60, to Kansas in Miami, while the Huskies just escaped Monmouth, its second consecutive mid-major overtime win.
The Daily Orange spoke with the Hartford Courant’s Dom Amore, who has covered UConn since 2011.
The Daily Orange: In its last four games, UConn lost by 20 to Michigan State, 35 to Arkansas, and then barely escaped Columbia and Monmouth, both in overtime. What type of team should Syracuse fans expect to see in Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night?
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15 years after arriving at Syracuse, Gerry McNamara still beloved in hometown (DO; Gutierrez)
Tucked inside the home in which Gerry McNamara grew up, on West Market Street in North Scranton, the former Syracuse star’s parents stood up from their kitchen table and looked at each other.
“Do you know where they could be?” McNamara’s mother, Joyce, asked.
“Probably dusty up in the attic,” said his father, Gerard. “If I don’t find it in 30 seconds, I won’t find it at all.”
Gerard sighed. Neither he nor his wife knew exactly where any artifact from their son’s magical career at Syracuse could be. There was not a single photograph, jersey or trophy of Gerry in the living or dining rooms of his childhood home. Not a magnet on the refrigerator, poster on the wall or lanyard on their keys. There are no items connected to McNamara’s playing days, no reminder of how McNamara grew into a basketball star from Northeast Pennsylvania.
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Beat writers all predict a low-scoring matchup between Syracuse and Connecticut (DO; Staff)
Syracuse (6-1) takes on Connecticut (6-2) on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. at Madison Square Garden. Last season, Syracuse dropped its matchup with UConn, 52-50. But after a loss to No. 2 Kansas in Miami on Saturday, our beat writers predict that SU will be able to rebound and pick up a win over its former Big East rival.
Sam Fortier (7-0)
U’conned
Syracuse 66, UConn 54
Connecticut is struggling right now, more the team that Arkansas blew out by 35 than the team that upset Oregon in the PK80 Invitational. Syracuse will handle the Huskies because it has a tremendous size and talent advantage on the inside that becomes problematic for a team oriented on smaller guards. To further complicate things: The UConn guards rely on dribble penetration to create, but the Orange’s rim protectors will likely force them to settle from the outside, where the Huskies are hitting 30.4 percent of their shots, among the lowest rates in the nation. Syracuse wants to win on defense this season, and it will against UConn.
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