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Welcome to Dyngus Day!
Dyngus Day, also spelled Dingus Day, is a fun Polish Holiday. It is very popular in Poland, and in Polish communities across America. After the long Lenten holiday, Dyngus Day is a day of fun. And, perhaps a little romantic fun. It is always celebrated on the Monday after Easter.
Dyngus Day Tradition:
There are all sort of ways for boys to meet girls. But, this one takes the cake.
Guys, on this day you get to wet the ladies down. Sprinkling or drenching with water is your goal. Chase after the ladies with squirt guns, buckets, or other containers of water. The more bold and gallant boys, may choose to use cologne. Hitting (gently, please) the ladies on the legs with switches or willows is also common.
Yes ladies, you can strike back. Ladies , you get your revenge on Tuesday, when tradition has it that you throw dishes or crockery back at the boys. It has become increasingly popular for the ladies to get their revenge on Monday, tossing water back at the boys.
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SU News
'Big Boy League' ACC Rules the Final Four (nytimes.com; Rhoden)
Speaking to the news media on Saturday, Virginia Coach Tony Bennett put a sharp point on the Atlantic Coast Conference’s dominance in the N.C.A.A. tournament over the past two seasons.
“This isn’t a tiptoe league,” Bennett said. “It’s a big-boy league.”
Indeed.
Duke won the national championship last year, and two other A.C.C. teams — Syracuse and North Carolina — will make up half of this year’s Final Four.
That kind of A.C.C. dominance may become the norm for the next few seasons. With a kaleidoscope of talent — from elite recruits to juniors, seniors and postgraduates — the A.C.C. has served notice that it is built for the short and long run.
“There’s so many kinds of systems and styles and the talent and the depth,” Bennett said of the conference. “It battle-tests you. It can break you a little bit at times, but you see a lot, and it does toughen you up.”
Virginia was one of four A.C.C. teams competing for the last two Final Four spots. But this year, the conference also became the first league to place six teams in the round of 16, and the first in N.C.A.A. tournament history to have at least five in the final 16 in consecutive years.
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Seeded 10th, Syracuse is One of the Last Four Left (nytimes.com; Waldstein)
Shortly before Coach Jim Boeheim cut down the net to celebrate a most improbable victory, he grabbed a microphone and noted to the assembled fans that he had just witnessed the best comeback in Syracuse’s long, rich basketball history.
Boeheim could have been talking about his own comeback from a nine-game suspension earlier in the season, during which the Orange stumbled to a 4-5 mark, and went 0-4 to open their Atlantic Coast Conference schedule.
He also could have been discussing Syracuse’s late-season swoon, when it lost five of its last six games before accepting a controversial No. 10 seed and a spot in the N.C.A.A. tournament, even with 13 losses.
But in a season in which Syracuse seemed to be left behind and labeled for elimination more than once, it crafted its best comeback of all, the one Boeheim was really talking about.
Trailing by 15 points with 9 minutes 32 seconds left in the game, Syracuse went on a blistering run to beat No. 1 Virginia, 68-62, in the Midwest Regional final at United Center and reach the Final Four for the fifth time under Boeheim. The Orange will play North Carolina in a national semifinal Saturday night in Houston.
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SU Basketball's Amazing Season Summed Up by Trevor Cooney: 'We Never Give Up' (PS; Carlson)
With what might have been, could have been and probably should have been 18 minutes left in his basketball career, Trevor Cooney rolled his eyes to the scoreboard atop the United Center.
The Orange trailed by 15 against a Virginia team they'd never beaten, coached by a man who'd never surrendered a 10-point since he landed at UVA.
A beaten man, and probably any normal one, would have rolled his eyes, hung his head or at the very least sighed.
Trevor Cooney cursed. He set his jaw. He slapped hands with Michael Gbinije atop the 2-3 zone.
One stop. Then another.
One basket. Then another.
One by one until the Orange crawled out of a 15-point hole, an improbable 68-62 comeback win over Virginia capping a seemingly impossible journey. The Orange finished the night, against a season's worth of odds and against an evening full of them, on a platform filled with dancing players at the United Center, and atop a ladder with a pair of scissors and with a Final Four plaque in the hands of a team that few believed was capable of climbing to these heights.
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SU Clinches Final Four Bid with 68-62 Victory Over Virginia (phot gallery; PS; Axe)
Malachi was the man
Richardson's comeback run
Pressed for Time
Jim Boeheim: Basketball prophet
Points off turnovers were key
Tyler Lydon's block party
Mike and Trevor's senior moment
#FreeThrowsMatter
Robey's plugged in permanently
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Syracuse Basketball Teams Arrive Home After Elite 8 Wins (twcnews.com; Lucivero)
It continues to be an incredible tournament run for both the Syracuse University men's and women's basketball teams. The men will be heading to Houston after a big come from behind win against Virginia in Chicago Sunday night. Meanwhile, the women defeated Tennessee in Sioux Falls to advance to the program's first ever Final Four. Brad Vivacqua has more.
To say Syracuse basketball fans are still buzzing would be an understatement. After all -- not many expected both the men and women to be headed to the Final Four.
The teams arrived back to campus overnight and now will prepare to leave for both Houston and Indianapolis later this week. If you missed it, the men's game was an absolute thriller for Cuse fans, and at one point the Orange trailed Virginia by 16 points.
Despite being down by double digits for much of the game, the Orange came up big in the last few minutes. In the end, they overcame a huge deficit to top the Cavaliers 68 to 62.
Coach Jim Boeheim commented on the win around 2 a.m. Monday morning after arriving back to Syracuse.
"To be able to be able to come back against a team like that -- is a great tribute to them and I really couldn't be prouder of any team I've ever coached. I don't think we've ever had a team that's pulled off a game quite like this one against a team like Virginia," said Boeheim.
The Orange will play the North Carolina Tar Heels in Houston on Saturday with a tip off time of right around 8:49 p.m. on TBS.
Meanwhile, the women's team continues their history-making run. The SU women were able to cut down the nets in the Elite 8 for the first time in program history.
They took down the Tennessee Lady Vols 89 to 67 in Sioux Falls. And while the game was close for awhile, the women pulled away in the last quarter.
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Windy End of March for CNY (PS; Montreuil)
A pair of storm systems will bring gusty winds to Central New York for the final days of March.
Wind Advisories are already in place for all of Central New York for the gusty winds on Monday. Already strong winds will only increase in intensity Monday afternoon, peaking during the evening hours. Some gusts over 50 mph will be possible.
To accompany the strong winds on Monday, a cold front will bring a band of rain showers through during the morning hours. A rumble of thunder may even be possible this morning.
Temperatures will drop from highs in the low 50s early this afternoon into the 30s by the evening. Continued showers may even mix with or turn to some snow across the Tug Hill, as well as the hill tops south of Syracuse Monday night.
The Wind Advisories will expire early Tuesday morning, but it will still be a rather breezy day as north winds continue behind the storm system. High temperatures will struggle to even reach 40 degrees, while winds continue to gust between 30 and 40 mph.
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