At least Jay Bilas gave us some props

[DonLightfoot]

He said if Battle is healthy we will be a tough team to prepare for. Thanks Jay.

To be honest, it wouldn't bother me at all if none of the analysts talked about us and we just hide in the woods, so to speak. I think we have a decent chance to make it to the Sweet 16. I guess that is when the respect will come in so let's go out and earn it.

 

[orangenauburn]

IF we beat Baylor

And IF we beat Gonzaga

Then we will beat FSU

 

[jdubs30]

Mark Few is worried about us

 

[JLine]

Actually surprised we aren’t a trendy pick. Happy that we aren’t. Just grind our way to the 2nd weekend, then everything else is gravy.

 

[Madbiker]

No respect for Syracuse. Even Seth Davis ignored us.
We're becoming Seton Hall.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I couldn’t care less. The media has no respect for anyone outside of Duke.

 

[PeteCalvin]

No respect for Syracuse. Even Seth Davis ignored us.
We're becoming Seton Hall.

You’re surprised Seth ignored us? He learned his lesson years ago. And he hates us for it.

Insert goofy photo here

 

[Madbiker]

You’re surprised Seth ignored us? He learned his lesson years ago. And he hates us for it.

Insert goofy photo here

Davis always picks against us...and makes a big deal out of it. Now we're so "low" he just ignored us.

 

[CousCuse]

IF we beat Baylor

And IF we beat Gonzaga

Then we will beat FSU

and then...

 

[orangenauburn]

and then...

It's all up to fate

 

[Cheriehoop]

With our seedings, NCAA results the past 10 years or so would anyone who knows our NCAA history ever count us out or conversely make us a consensus lock to be a main contender regardless of tournament seeding? Guess the ‘experts’ figure that silence is golden.

 

[adk(roc)CUSE]

One of the guys on the CBSN said we could be an issue for Gonzaga, think it was Wally

 

[44cuse]

He said if Battle is healthy we will be a tough team to prepare for. Thanks Jay.

To be honest, it wouldn't bother me at all if none of the analysts talked about us and we just hide in the woods, so to speak. I think we have a decent chance to make it to the Sweet 16. I guess that is when the respect will come in so let's go out and earn it.

Honest question: have you seen Gonzaga this year?

44cuse

 

[Finwad32]

I mean, I love Syracuse and we love Syracuse.

But I’m not sure that we’ve earned much respect as an 8 seed that struggled to close games down the stretch against ranked teams. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t expect a lot of people to spend a ton of time analyzing us.

Get by Baylor and there’ll be some interesting talk about our next matchup.

 

[CardiacCuse]

Mark Few is worried about us

link?

 

[Finwad32]

Honest question: have you seen Gonzaga this year?

44cuse

From what I saw, they had some good size. I think they’ve got two ’s with decent size who handle the majority of the scoring and solid G play.

Obviously they’re a 1 for a reason, but they haven’t really played anybody since December.

It’ll be interesting to see if that schedule hurts them this year.

I’d love to see how we matchup if we get by Baylor. If we do, I’d look at our matchup as the highest % for a 1 to go down this weekend.

 

[syrBossHogg]

Bilas always gives us respect, though he was annoying in the game vs Duke last week

 

[CousCuse]

If you consider how many less losses Syracuse would have if Frank was never injured, I think people would be a lot more positive about our chances. I don't think they would have lost OOC and would have also beaten GT. The remaining season would have played out differently as they would have had confidence and momentum and the officiating may have been fairer as SU would have been a highly ranked team. I think they would have ended up with 5 or 6 losses. That's who this team really is. A top 10 ranked team who made it to the round of 16 last year with all the players returning. The master tactician Boeheim has them in the Touney in a bracket without any of the super heavy weights. The Love Boat is making another run.

 

[rrlbees]

link?

 

[DonLightfoot]

Honest question: have you seen Gonzaga this year?

No

 

[cuseincincy]

Honest question: have you seen Gonzaga this year?

44cuse

I've watched several Gonzaga games. Size wise they are much like SU most of the time. They play 3 and 2 tall G's (6'11" guy plays 10 mpg). Other than that completely different in that they play uptempo and shoot 10% higher. I'm not sure SU would shoot 53% in warm ups. But I'll take that matchup. The zone will trouble them and I like this SU team when we play uptempo like the 1st Duke game. We won't be out sized or out physicalled.

 

[JLine]

I've watched several Gonzaga games. Size wise they are much like SU most of the time. They play 3 and 2 tall G's (6'11" guy plays 10 mpg). Other than that completely different in that they play uptempo and shoot 10% higher. I'm not sure SU would shoot 53% in warm ups. But I'll take that matchup. The zone will trouble them and I like this SU team when we play uptempo like the 1st Duke game. We won't be out sized or out physicalled.

Love that they’re uptempo. Let’s speed the game up and get easy buckets. We probably stay off the offensive glass to get back on D. Get our tempo up, and slow theirs down.

 

[IthacaMatt]

IF we beat Baylor

And IF we beat Gonzaga

Then we will beat FSU

I think FSU will be tougher than Gonzaga. I hope somebody knocks them off.

 

[cuseguy]

You’re surprised Seth ignored us? He learned his lesson years ago. And he hates us for it.

Insert goofy photo here

Seth has been saying for weeks now that we’ll be a tough out in the tourney because of the zone. He’s said that in previous years. He’s not anti Syracuse. I just don’t think he believes we can get by Gonzaga if we advance. That’s okay. I don’t either, but we can hope.

 

[TexanMark]

Love that they’re uptempo. Let’s speed the game up and get easy buckets. We probably stay off the offensive glass to get back on D. Get our tempo up, and slow theirs down.

We are not a very good uptempo team...our guards besides Carey can't push it up