The Shumpert goggles.
We were 16-2 and #8 in the country!
And then Deshaun __________ Preston's girlfriend.
Yep. I remember we had three Sunday home games in a row at the end of the season. Pittsburgh, G-Town(the game the court was dedicated to JB), and Boston College. I was bummed after that BC game too. Not too long before that we had won at Notre Dame( I think) and people thought we had figured it back out. Not so much. We lost to Nova badly first round of BET and that was all she wrote.Playing for our tourney lives on senior day with McNabb in the house. Cuse losing to BC 63-61, and Williams decides to go 1 on 3. Duany at end of game does not even shake hands, he was that distraught. Lost 65-61
awful team
however the following season made me forget that awful seasonYep. I remember we had three Sunday home games in a row at the end of the season. Pittsburgh, G-Town(the game the court was dedicated to JB), and Boston College. I was bummed after that BC game too. Not too long before that we had won at Notre Dame( I think) and people thought we had figured it back out. Not so much. We lost to Nova badly first round of BET and that was all she wrote.
My first season as a fan!
Well we got revenge on Michigan State and Deshaun Williams punched a popular radio DJ in the face. I think that’s it.
I’m just kidding. She was never popular.
That pre-season NIT was actually a good memory. Aggressive man defense down the stretch to beat Wake and MSU.
Then came the no-defense games against North Carolina State and Georgia Tech with Bernie as the coach.
I don't think I've ever thrown so many beer cans at a TV as I did that season.
I also traveled up to the Dome for either the Georgetown or BC game at the end of the year (forget which, but it was not the one with the Boeheim court-naming ceremony) with my freshman roommate because McNabb was supposed to be there and he's a huge Eagles fan. He brought a McNabb bobble-head to the game with him, went and bothered McNabb in his seats, and got him to sign the bobble-head. So at least one of us went home a winner.
But really, what a downer of a season. And without Shumpert, the next year looked even worse until Deshaun miraculously flunked out of school days after being acquitted for punching Otto. (I still maintain this timing can't have been a coincidence.)
We had a player that punched otto?
Yep. I remember we had three Sunday home games in a row at the end of the season. Pittsburgh, G-Town(the game the court was dedicated to JB), and Boston College...
... Deshaun would come down 1 on 2 or 3 and shoot 16 footers on the break. Pretty sure he was about 5 for 20 that game.
2001-02gamesummaries (PDF) - Syracuse University Athletics
You're good, you. 4 for 15, pretty close.
But at least he only turned it over 6 times.
Well my memory clearly failed me because I didn’t remember Shumpert going 4-17. I do remember Forth having a great game and saying to myself after that he was going to be a great offensive big man the next year after that performance.