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Does Syracuse's Carrier Dome have a new name? (PS; Waters)

A year ago, Syracuse University stopped using the word "Carrier'' in its football and basketball media guides when referencing the building where the Orange’s teams play.

The school used “Dome” or “Loudhouse,” leaving off “Carrier,” which had been the building’s moniker since it opened in 1980.

With the roof coming off the dome this spring and being replaced with a new one this summer, so has the word “Dome” been removed from the school’s most recent release on the men’s basketball schedule.

In a release announcing the SU men’s basketball team’s Nov. 10 game against Maryland-Baltimore County, the site of the game is referred to as “the Stadium.”

The use of the tag "the Stadium,'' with Stadium in upper-case, appears to be the latest move in a push by SU administrators to end its agreement with Carrier, which bought the naming rights to the building for $2.75 million in 1979. The agreement extended the naming rights in perpetuity.

This is the first time the university has directly called its home arena something other than “the Dome” or “the Loudhouse.”

Last year’s football media guide didn’t refer to the Carrier Dome once; taking out 64 uses of the word “Carrier” from the previous year and instead going with “Dome” or “Loudhouse.”

Why is SU avoiding the word Carrier? Experts say there is a rhyme and a reason

The men’s basketball guide also dropped references to Carrier; even taking the word out of pages dedicated to NCAA attendance records set in the building.

However, on Page 178 of the 2019-20 basketball media guide, the university did include information on what it described as the Stadium Roof Project. But it did not refer to the building itself as "the Stadium.''

Last year, SU athletic director John Wildhack downplayed the school’s erasure of Carrier from its publications.
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Syracuse Basketball: So long Carrier Dome, and say hello to “the Stadium” (itlh; Adler)

Get ready to check out Syracuse basketball from its lovely new home, known simply as “the Stadium.”

During Syracuse basketball games in the upcoming campaign, we shall see you at “the Stadium” – literally or figuratively, depending on if fans are allowed in the stands amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The squad issued a press release on Monday that details its scheduled game on Tuesday, Nov. 10, when the Orange will host 2018 Virginia-slayer UMBC.

Tucked into the announcement is that the ‘Cuse will play the Retrievers inside “the Stadium.” No reference to the Carrier Dome, the Dome, or even the Loudhouse.

Hmmm. That the Syracuse athletics department and basketball officials are going with “the Stadium” certainly could be construed as the latest indication that university administrators would perhaps like to end their naming-rights agreement with Carrier on an iconic Central New York building where the roof came off this past spring and is getting replaced with a new one over the summer.
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Louisville basketball: 3 biggest questions for recruiting in 2021 (BRL; Lane)

Can Louisville basketball keep Bryce Hopkins in the fold?

If it feels like it’s been forever since Louisville basketball landed a commitment in the class of 2021, it’s because it has. While Chris Mack has landed multiple graduate-transfers since, the last time a high school player in the current class announced his intentions to attend Louisville was way back in November of 2019 when four-star Bryce Hopkins chose the Cards.

The commitment came out of nowhere at the time, with very few people who follow the program actually knowing much about the combo forward from Chicago. The more fans read and saw of Hopkins the more they realized how big of a commitment this was for the Cards.

At 6’7, 220 pounds, Hopkins brought a Dwayne Sutton-like game to Louisville with great size, versatility, and a high-motor. However, his game was far more polished and rounded at this point in their careers, with Hopkins bringing a Jordan Nwora like scoring punch with his ability to shoot the ball from the top of the key facing up and from deep giving Mack his first true “stretch four” since taking over as head coach.
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Graduate transfer Johnson headed to Wake Forest, not ETSU :: WRALSportsFan.com (wralsportsfan.com)

Graduate transfer Jalen Johnson has decided to play at Wake Forest instead of East Tennessee State.

Johnson announced the change in a social-media post Monday. The 6-foot-6 Johnson graduated in December from Tennessee and was set to join ETSU under Steve Forbes, who later left to take over the Demon Deacons program.

In a statement, Johnson said he had “a great relationship” with Forbes and that he met with his family to discuss plans for his final college season after Forbes’ departure.

Johnson played in 31 games last season, starting two, for the Volunteers. He averaged 3.5 points and 2.0 rebounds in 15.7 minutes per game.

The move marks a return to North Carolina for Johnson. His hometown is Durham and he played in high school at Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point, roughly 25 miles from the Wake Forest campus in Winston-Salem.

Johnson is the second player this month to follow Forbes from ETSU to Wake Forest. Last week, the Demon Deacons announced the addition of transfer Daivien Williamson after he had played his first two seasons under Forbes with the Buccaneers.
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At South Carolina, Frank McGuire helped drive tension in the ACC to heights not seen since

When South Carolina And Duke Truly Hated Each Other (DBR; King)

I hadn’t thought about Mike Grosso in years before he somehow popped up in a DBR thread about Wes Unseld last week.

It’s been more than a half-century since Grosso was at the center of one of the most bizarre episodes in Duke basketball history and if you weren’t around in the middle 1960s, then the details might be a bit hazy.

It all starts with Frank McGuire, a successful coach at both the University of North Carolina and then the University of South Carolina.

But before he came south McGuire was the head coach at St. John’s. It was a match seemingly made in heaven. McGuire was born and raised in New York City and graduated from St. John’s. He took over at his alma mater for the 1947-’48 season. McGuire seemed to know every beat cop, cabbie and doorman in the Greater NYC area and they all seemed to help him funnel the city’s best prep talent to St. John’s. McGuire got St. John’s to the 1952 NCAA title game, where they lost to Kansas.

Reserve guard Dean Smith averaged 1.4 points per game for that Kansas team.

One of the games that got St. John’s to the title game was a 64-57 win over Adolph Rupp and Kentucky, played at Reynolds Coliseum, on the campus of NC State.

As it turned out several UNC officials were in attendance and they were looking for a new coach, having fallen well behind arch-rival NC State and their dynamic coach Everett Case.

And McGuire was looking to leave. St. John’s was not implicated in the point-shaving scandal earlier that decade. But CCNY, Long Island University and Manhattan were and their programs were eviscerated by the fall-out. McGuire’s beloved New York City went from the epicenter of college basketball to something resembling pariah status.
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Syracuse lounge owner plans for reopening a music venue in midst of a pandemic (PS; McMahon)

Some things just can’t be done through takeout. The “listening room” experience Julie Leone offered at 443 Social Club & Lounge was one of those things.

“Live music doesn’t really translate to curbside pick-up, sadly," said Leone, the owner and creator of the music venue at 443 Burnet Ave. in Syracuse. While Leone operates a bar and offers food service in the venue, those things have also been difficult to shift to the new way of doing business with the coronavirus.

“It just isn’t about the food or the transaction," Leone said. "You can sit at home and make a drink for yourself a lot cheaper than you can at a bar, but that’s not why people go to a bar. You’re going there for the community and conversation, the people who are glad to see you, all of those things. And that just doesn’t translate to a takeout model.”

Earlier this year, Leone had seen business take off at the 443. Ticketed events were selling out. Leone was re-evaluating how to set up the space to accommodate more people. This was after lots of tweaks to her business model: Leone had tried different ways to incorporate food and drink, and even tried a stint as a coffee house during the daytime.
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