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Welcome to National Orange Day!
Celebrate the day Syracuse University was founded 146 years ago by wearing orange and helping the less fortunate! And rooting for Syracuse!
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Don't Look Now, But Zags Are Crazy-Good Defenders (spokesman.com; Blanchette)
Yeah, yeah, the Syracuse zone. So what else is new?
Look, it’s great. It’s unique to college basketball. No one plays it so much or so well (maybe because no one plays it so much?). It’s where any conversation about – and game plan for – the Orange begins.
It’s a damned brand.
But it’s not where the conversation necessarily ends.
So let’s talk about Gonzaga’s defense. It’s time someone should.
In the wake of the Bulldogs’ blitz through the Denver pod of the NCAA Basketball Tournament last weekend, the huzzahs were mostly about Domantas Sabonis’ KO of NBA Lottery-bound center Jakob Poeltl, the dazzle of guard Eric McClellan and, of course, the resurrection of a Gonzaga season once being fitted for a funeral suit.
Here’s what may have been overlooked: the Zags held Seton Hall and Utah under 60 points in back-to-back games, something that had happened in Gonzaga’s NCAA history exactly never.
In fact, in GU’s previous 40 tournament outings, only three times had an opponent failed to break 60 – a 16 seed (Southern, 2013), a 15 (Valparaiso, 2004) and the most offensively challenged 10 (West Virginia, 2012) in NCAA history.
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Get Your Orange On as Syracuse Men and Women Head to the Sweet 16 (editorial; PS)
A year ago at this time, Syracuse University basketball fans had no rooting interest in the NCAA basketball tournament, men's or women's editions. The men's team was sitting out a self-imposed ban on postseason play. The women's team had been defeated in the second round of the tournament by No. 1 seed South Carolina.
This year, Syracuse, you have two reasons to get your Orange on. Both the men's and women's teams are dancing into the Sweet 16, in nearly back-to-back games Friday night.
The No. 4 Orange women (27-7) will be in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to face No. 1 South Carolina, again, at 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. The Gamecocks are 33-1 and come into Friday's game having thrashed Syracuse the last time around. Coach Quentin Hillsman would rather remember the game before that, when the Orange lost by just four points at the beginning of the 2014-15 season. The team is riding positive vibes after convincing wins last weekend over Army and Albany in the Carrier Dome.
While South Carolina is favored, paper matchups haven't meant much during the women's tournament. Thirteen times so far, the lower-seeded team has won.. Teams that are out include No. 2 Maryland, No. 2 Arizona State and No. 3 Louisville, while No. 4 Stanford dodged an upset by No. 12 South Dakota State by a single point.
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Syracuse Basketball's March to the Sweet 16 (video; PS; Rivoli)
The Syracuse University men's basketball team has made an unexpected run to the Sweet 16.
From the win in the Bahamas, to Jim Boeheim's suspension, to the Orange's victories in St. Louis, it's been a wild ride.
Take a look back at SU's run through the season and get ready for the Orange's Sweet 16 game in Chicago.
Syracuse and Notre Dame Still Only Schools Alive in Both Tourneys (dailysentinel.com; AP)
When Jim Boeheim leads Syracuse into the Sweet 16 on Friday night against Gonzaga, he'll be in uncharted territory as his 40th season winds down. Boeheim's Orange are playing on the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, and so are the Syracuse women — for the first time in program history.
"I'm really, really happy for our girls' team," Boeheim said Wednesday before the team departed for Chicago and its 19th appearance in the Sweet 16. "It makes you proud."
When March Madness began, 24 schools had both their men and women playing. Now just two remain — Syracuse and Notre Dame.
Just getting both the men's and women's teams selected is a big deal in itself for a school. Both making it past the first weekend of tournament play is an even bigger bonus.
"It means a lot, just this moment of being here," said Quentin Hillsman, in his 10th season as women's coach at Syracuse. "I pinch myself after every win past nine. Our first year, we won nine games."
In no particular order, here are the schools that had their men's and women's teams selected: UConn, Seton Hall, Chattanooga, Michigan State, Hawaii, Texas, Baylor, Middle Tennessee, Texas A&M, Oregon State, West Virginia, Buffalo, Green Bay, Indiana, Miami, South Dakota State, Oklahoma, Purdue, Kentucky, UNC Asheville, Maryland, Iona, Syracuse, and Notre Dame.
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This Skaneateles Museum Has 300 Motors, All Restored and Polished to Perfection (photo gallery; PS; Peters)
If you've heard of Steve Shehadi, you probably know he's the carpet guy as in Shehadi Inc., oriental and machine made carpets, in Syracuse, a business that's been in the family for 116 years.
It's a safe bet you don't know the other side of Shehadi, the guy who owns and operates his own museum in Skaneateles.
This isn't just any museum with artwork or sculpture, and it's not a museum that's open to the public. Admission is by invitation only, but it's a museum nonetheless, a truly unique museum with an unbelievable collection of outboard and inboard boat motors, the most esoteric electric motors one might imagine and other odds-and-ends, many of which defy imagination. In a way it's Steampunk without the fantasy.
And whether or not you like this kind of stuff to see it is to stand back and wonder how many people in the world could have done this? There are a few, Shehadi said, including himself and his daughter, Gabrielle, who move with ease through their spacious building pointing to this and that, giving brief explanations of how things work and offering history lessons on almost everything.
There are hundreds of displays in the building and Gabrielle knows what she's talking about just as her dad does. She's a 2016 graduate of Bucknell University, with a degree in engineering. Her sister, Madison, lives and works in New York City.
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