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The 2017-2018 has now officially come to a close. It's a sad time for all die hard Cuse fans. Yes, the post season went better than most people expected but we won't be officially back on the court until Mid October, or basically over six months from now. And hopefully the off season brings quiet times on the existing roster and good news on the recruiting front.
I'll leave the recapping of the season for others, but this had to be one of the craziest seasons ever. Players quitting before the school year ever started. Players quitting during the season. Players getting injured during the season. Some of whom came back and some who didn't. Some had their mom's getting vocal on social media about their son's injuries. A season where a walk on played a key seven minutes when one of our only two guards on our roster fouled out of a game. A season where we finished under .500 in the conference and a season where we made it to the Sweet Sixteen for the sixth time in ten years while being the very last team picked for the NCAA's. Oh yeah, we also had three of our players play more minutes than almost anyone else in college basketball this year.
So how did all of that affect the 10th Annual IGGY award predictions. Well, for one, more than half of our "knowledgeable" posters picked the team to end up in the NIT. Fortunately the selection committee made those predictions moot. And a few of our "knowledgeable" posters predicted that the team wouldn't get picked for any post season tournament. Those names will remain silent for now, but if you are curious, you know where to find the original selections.
10th Annual Iggy Awards. Time to make your predictions.
I also won't mention the posters by name who picked Geno Thorpe to win one of the categories. Some picked him to be the leading scorer and some picked him to have the most threes for the season. I think one person picked him to lead the team in minutes per game. Note to you guys: Geno Thorpe couldn't carry Andrew White's jock strap and JAB will probably do some additional vetting on the next grad transfer that we are interested in.
So let's get to the winners, but before we do I want to thank Orangepace for developing a spreadsheet based on all of the predictions. So, if you want to argue any of the results, please contact him.
1) REGULAR SEASON RECORD 19-12
We had ten people (including myself) pick 19-12. As per the official rules, we went to the tie breaker category (most threes for the season). That was Tyus Battle with 77 three's. We had one of the ten predict 75 threes and one predict 76. So in a tie breaker, because Tyus had four treys vs Duke, the winner of our first IGGY is Jeremy L. Congratulations Jeremy!!!
2) ACC REGULAR SEASON RECORD 8-10
We had fifteen people select 8-10, so again we had to go to the tie breaker. One of our posters in this category selected Tyus to hit 77 threes and was dead on. So our second IGGY goes to Madbiker. Congrats MB!!!
3) ACC TOURNAMENT RECORD 1-1
We all know the history of Syracuse and the ACCT. Many predicted that Cuse would continue the big goose egg. We had a handful of people predict two wins. No one more than that. Overall, 39 people predicted 1-1. So, of course, we went to the tie breaker again. In fact, we had to go to the second tie breaker because two people predicted Tyus to hit 77 threes, Our tie breaking category was minutes per game and both selected Tyus, but one was closer to his actual total, so our next IGGY is awarded to dyedorange in a close one over Madbiker. Congrat DO!!!
4) POST SEASON RECORD NCAA (2-1/3-1)
The IGGY committee decided after the Cuse was chosen as one of the Last Four in that the game in Dayton would not count for IGGY purposes. But now, because the IGGY committee is all about fair play and sportsmanship and believes in BEING ORANGE, the IGGY committee has decided to award two IGGY's in this category.
The official IGGY with a result of 2 wins and one loss in the NCAA's was chosen by six people. Congrats to all six of those people, because many die hard Cuse fans chose not to believe in JAB and the theory that he always does more with less, which has been proven time and time again. So we award the next IGGY to CuseFanATL who was the closest in the three point tie breaking category. Congrats ATL!!!
And, in the good faith category, we also had three people predict an NCAA result of 3-1. The unofficial IGGY*, in a tie breaker, goes to CuseBall. Congrats CB!!!
5) LEADING SCORER TYUS BATTLE 19.2
Tyus was picked by 73 out of 78 ballots. Fortunately for the team, Tyus was our leading scorer with a very respectable 19.2 points per game. As others have posted, Tyus will always have a special place in our hearts. He averaged more minutes than anyone else in college basketball this season. At this point, we don't know his plans next season, and hopefully he comes back, but good luck and thank you for the last two seasons. As amazing as it seems, TB was almost a Michigan Wolverine. Fortunately, he saw the light, and hopefully his brother will as well.
So out of 73 people, only one predicted Tyus to average 19.2 so we didn't even have to go to the tie breaker. So, in a great prediction, we are happy to award the next IGGY to shermstheman. Congrats Sherm!!!
6} LEADING REBOUNDER OSHAE BRISSETT 8.8
Oshae Brissett had one of the best freshman campaigns in Syracuse basketball history, but not everyone thought he was going to be our leading rebounder. Only 42 out of 78 predicted our latest Canadian phenom to win in this category as we had a lot of of other picks going to two other freshman, Bourama Sidibe and Matt Moyer. And, I don't think we had any prediction for our actual second and third leading rebounders, Paschal Chukwu (6.8) and Marek Dolezaj (4.8) so many people were totally fooled. Let's hope Oshae is back next season to repeat in this category.
Out of 42 picks, we had three people predict Oshae with eight or more boards per game. The closest, and the next IGGY winner with a prediction of 8.6 boards per game was Air Force Orange. Congrats AFO on your IGGY win.
7) LEADING MINUTES PER GAME TYUS BATTLE 39.0
We had three iron men this season. All averaging over 38.1 minutes per game. That's pretty amazing considing how much can happen over 37 games. In fact, we only had four players that played in all of our games this season. Battle, Howard and Brissett were all able to avoid injuries and foul trouble to lead the way for the Orangemen.
73 out of 78 predicted Tyus to be our court warrior this season so it was no surprise he was. In what I think was the most amazing prediction of the 10th Annual IGGY's, we had one person predict accurately that Tyus would average 39.0 minutes per game. Congrats to Franco Pizza for a great prediction.
8) MOST THREE POINT SHOTS MADE TYUS BATTLE 77
This is our tie breaker category but again, in the spirit of BEING ORANGE, the official IGGY committee has decided to award an IGGY to the most accurate prediction in this category. As mentioned earlier, we had two people think that Tyus would make 77 threes. Congrats to dyedorange and Madbiker for your previous IGGY wins and because both of you predicted 77 threes, the official IGGY committee has decided to award both of you IGGY's for this category. Congrats to both of you for your multiple 2018 IGGY's.
Thank you all who participated in the 10th Annual IGGY Awards. I know many of you are already excited for the 11th Annual. The IGGY committee is very excited and has promised that there will be some surprises next season. Unfortunately, we will have to wait six months to find out.
PRE SEASON POST
It's time for the 10th Annual Iggy Awards. Yes, I know. It's hard to believe. Ten Years. Lots of Memories. Five Sweet Sixteens. Three Elite Eights. Two Final Fours. How many of you predicted that to happen.
The first season we made picks was 2008-09. Everyone remembers that season fondly. We beat Florida, Kansas and Memphis in non league games. We lost to Cleveland State. We beat Yukon in Six Overtimes! We held James Harden to ten points, all in the second half and then we found out who Blake Griffin was in the Sweet Sixteen. Our Assistant Coaches were Bernie Fine, Mike Hopkins and Rob Murphy. Our Director of Basketball Operations was Stan Kissel. I'm not sure who won the Iggy's that season but overall we had a better season than many expected.
So a lot has transpired since then. However there is one constant and James Arthur Boeheim is still the Head Coach of the Syracuse Orangemen.
So let's fast forward to 2017-2018. Lots of new guys. Not a particularly deep bench. Definitely a lot of questions. How good will Sophomore Tyus Battle be. How much will we miss Taurean Thompson. Which of the new guys will possibly step up to lead in one of the Iggy categories. Will we have any big wins like last season vs Duke and Virginia. Could this be the first team under JAB to finish under .500. Could JAB pull that surprise team out of a hat that finds itself dancing next March.
Our categories remain the same as last year. Hopefully we are a lot smarter than we were last year and are able to award winners in every category. Something we were unable to do last year. However some people did have some foresight so we were honored to award them the prestigious Iggys (see last years winners down below).
Here are our categories. Selections need to be posted by 4 pm of our first regular season game (Friday, November 10th vs Cornell). Hopefully we get a lot of people who will be jonesing for that special 10th Annual Iggy Award. Good luck to all.
1) Regular season record. There are 31 regular season games.
2) ACC season record. There are 18 ACC games.
3) ACC Tournament record. The most we could play is five games and depending on our seed, we could max out at three or five games. Or, of course, we could bomb out at one game. Here is how it was set up last year. 2017 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament - Wikipedia
4) Post-season record (and notate if NCAA, NIT, CBI or CollegeInsider.com)
5) Leading scorer and how many points per game
6) Leading rebounder and how many rebounds per game
7) Player with most minutes per game and how many.
8) TIEBREAKER-Leader in 3 pointers made and how many
I'll leave the recapping of the season for others, but this had to be one of the craziest seasons ever. Players quitting before the school year ever started. Players quitting during the season. Players getting injured during the season. Some of whom came back and some who didn't. Some had their mom's getting vocal on social media about their son's injuries. A season where a walk on played a key seven minutes when one of our only two guards on our roster fouled out of a game. A season where we finished under .500 in the conference and a season where we made it to the Sweet Sixteen for the sixth time in ten years while being the very last team picked for the NCAA's. Oh yeah, we also had three of our players play more minutes than almost anyone else in college basketball this year.
So how did all of that affect the 10th Annual IGGY award predictions. Well, for one, more than half of our "knowledgeable" posters picked the team to end up in the NIT. Fortunately the selection committee made those predictions moot. And a few of our "knowledgeable" posters predicted that the team wouldn't get picked for any post season tournament. Those names will remain silent for now, but if you are curious, you know where to find the original selections.
10th Annual Iggy Awards. Time to make your predictions.
I also won't mention the posters by name who picked Geno Thorpe to win one of the categories. Some picked him to be the leading scorer and some picked him to have the most threes for the season. I think one person picked him to lead the team in minutes per game. Note to you guys: Geno Thorpe couldn't carry Andrew White's jock strap and JAB will probably do some additional vetting on the next grad transfer that we are interested in.
So let's get to the winners, but before we do I want to thank Orangepace for developing a spreadsheet based on all of the predictions. So, if you want to argue any of the results, please contact him.
1) REGULAR SEASON RECORD 19-12
We had ten people (including myself) pick 19-12. As per the official rules, we went to the tie breaker category (most threes for the season). That was Tyus Battle with 77 three's. We had one of the ten predict 75 threes and one predict 76. So in a tie breaker, because Tyus had four treys vs Duke, the winner of our first IGGY is Jeremy L. Congratulations Jeremy!!!
2) ACC REGULAR SEASON RECORD 8-10
We had fifteen people select 8-10, so again we had to go to the tie breaker. One of our posters in this category selected Tyus to hit 77 threes and was dead on. So our second IGGY goes to Madbiker. Congrats MB!!!
3) ACC TOURNAMENT RECORD 1-1
We all know the history of Syracuse and the ACCT. Many predicted that Cuse would continue the big goose egg. We had a handful of people predict two wins. No one more than that. Overall, 39 people predicted 1-1. So, of course, we went to the tie breaker again. In fact, we had to go to the second tie breaker because two people predicted Tyus to hit 77 threes, Our tie breaking category was minutes per game and both selected Tyus, but one was closer to his actual total, so our next IGGY is awarded to dyedorange in a close one over Madbiker. Congrat DO!!!
4) POST SEASON RECORD NCAA (2-1/3-1)
The IGGY committee decided after the Cuse was chosen as one of the Last Four in that the game in Dayton would not count for IGGY purposes. But now, because the IGGY committee is all about fair play and sportsmanship and believes in BEING ORANGE, the IGGY committee has decided to award two IGGY's in this category.
The official IGGY with a result of 2 wins and one loss in the NCAA's was chosen by six people. Congrats to all six of those people, because many die hard Cuse fans chose not to believe in JAB and the theory that he always does more with less, which has been proven time and time again. So we award the next IGGY to CuseFanATL who was the closest in the three point tie breaking category. Congrats ATL!!!
And, in the good faith category, we also had three people predict an NCAA result of 3-1. The unofficial IGGY*, in a tie breaker, goes to CuseBall. Congrats CB!!!
5) LEADING SCORER TYUS BATTLE 19.2
Tyus was picked by 73 out of 78 ballots. Fortunately for the team, Tyus was our leading scorer with a very respectable 19.2 points per game. As others have posted, Tyus will always have a special place in our hearts. He averaged more minutes than anyone else in college basketball this season. At this point, we don't know his plans next season, and hopefully he comes back, but good luck and thank you for the last two seasons. As amazing as it seems, TB was almost a Michigan Wolverine. Fortunately, he saw the light, and hopefully his brother will as well.
So out of 73 people, only one predicted Tyus to average 19.2 so we didn't even have to go to the tie breaker. So, in a great prediction, we are happy to award the next IGGY to shermstheman. Congrats Sherm!!!
6} LEADING REBOUNDER OSHAE BRISSETT 8.8
Oshae Brissett had one of the best freshman campaigns in Syracuse basketball history, but not everyone thought he was going to be our leading rebounder. Only 42 out of 78 predicted our latest Canadian phenom to win in this category as we had a lot of of other picks going to two other freshman, Bourama Sidibe and Matt Moyer. And, I don't think we had any prediction for our actual second and third leading rebounders, Paschal Chukwu (6.8) and Marek Dolezaj (4.8) so many people were totally fooled. Let's hope Oshae is back next season to repeat in this category.
Out of 42 picks, we had three people predict Oshae with eight or more boards per game. The closest, and the next IGGY winner with a prediction of 8.6 boards per game was Air Force Orange. Congrats AFO on your IGGY win.
7) LEADING MINUTES PER GAME TYUS BATTLE 39.0
We had three iron men this season. All averaging over 38.1 minutes per game. That's pretty amazing considing how much can happen over 37 games. In fact, we only had four players that played in all of our games this season. Battle, Howard and Brissett were all able to avoid injuries and foul trouble to lead the way for the Orangemen.
73 out of 78 predicted Tyus to be our court warrior this season so it was no surprise he was. In what I think was the most amazing prediction of the 10th Annual IGGY's, we had one person predict accurately that Tyus would average 39.0 minutes per game. Congrats to Franco Pizza for a great prediction.
8) MOST THREE POINT SHOTS MADE TYUS BATTLE 77
This is our tie breaker category but again, in the spirit of BEING ORANGE, the official IGGY committee has decided to award an IGGY to the most accurate prediction in this category. As mentioned earlier, we had two people think that Tyus would make 77 threes. Congrats to dyedorange and Madbiker for your previous IGGY wins and because both of you predicted 77 threes, the official IGGY committee has decided to award both of you IGGY's for this category. Congrats to both of you for your multiple 2018 IGGY's.
Thank you all who participated in the 10th Annual IGGY Awards. I know many of you are already excited for the 11th Annual. The IGGY committee is very excited and has promised that there will be some surprises next season. Unfortunately, we will have to wait six months to find out.
PRE SEASON POST
It's time for the 10th Annual Iggy Awards. Yes, I know. It's hard to believe. Ten Years. Lots of Memories. Five Sweet Sixteens. Three Elite Eights. Two Final Fours. How many of you predicted that to happen.
The first season we made picks was 2008-09. Everyone remembers that season fondly. We beat Florida, Kansas and Memphis in non league games. We lost to Cleveland State. We beat Yukon in Six Overtimes! We held James Harden to ten points, all in the second half and then we found out who Blake Griffin was in the Sweet Sixteen. Our Assistant Coaches were Bernie Fine, Mike Hopkins and Rob Murphy. Our Director of Basketball Operations was Stan Kissel. I'm not sure who won the Iggy's that season but overall we had a better season than many expected.
So a lot has transpired since then. However there is one constant and James Arthur Boeheim is still the Head Coach of the Syracuse Orangemen.
So let's fast forward to 2017-2018. Lots of new guys. Not a particularly deep bench. Definitely a lot of questions. How good will Sophomore Tyus Battle be. How much will we miss Taurean Thompson. Which of the new guys will possibly step up to lead in one of the Iggy categories. Will we have any big wins like last season vs Duke and Virginia. Could this be the first team under JAB to finish under .500. Could JAB pull that surprise team out of a hat that finds itself dancing next March.
Our categories remain the same as last year. Hopefully we are a lot smarter than we were last year and are able to award winners in every category. Something we were unable to do last year. However some people did have some foresight so we were honored to award them the prestigious Iggys (see last years winners down below).
Here are our categories. Selections need to be posted by 4 pm of our first regular season game (Friday, November 10th vs Cornell). Hopefully we get a lot of people who will be jonesing for that special 10th Annual Iggy Award. Good luck to all.
1) Regular season record. There are 31 regular season games.
2) ACC season record. There are 18 ACC games.
3) ACC Tournament record. The most we could play is five games and depending on our seed, we could max out at three or five games. Or, of course, we could bomb out at one game. Here is how it was set up last year. 2017 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament - Wikipedia
4) Post-season record (and notate if NCAA, NIT, CBI or CollegeInsider.com)
5) Leading scorer and how many points per game
6) Leading rebounder and how many rebounds per game
7) Player with most minutes per game and how many.
8) TIEBREAKER-Leader in 3 pointers made and how many
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