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Welcome to Feast of the Cross Day!
In the Christian liturgical calendar, there are several different Feasts of the Cross, all of which commemorate the cross used in thecrucifixion of Jesus. While Good Friday is dedicated to the Passion of Christ and the Crucifixion, these days celebrate the cross itself, as the instrument of salvation.
In English, it is called The Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the official translation of the Roman Missal, while the 1973 translation called itThe Triumph of the Cross. In some parts of the Anglican Communion the feast is called Holy Cross Day, a name also used byLutherans. The celebration is also sometimes called Holy Rood Day.
As per Christian faith the True Cross was discovered in 326 by Saint Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, during a pilgrimage she made to Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was then built at the site of the discovery, by order of Helena and Constantine. The church was dedicated nine years later, with a portion of the cross. One-third remained in Jerusalem, one-third was brought to Rome and deposited in the Sessorian basilica Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Holy Cross in Jerusalem), and one-third was taken to Constantinople to make the city impregnable.[1]
SU News
Sean Miller visiting with top prospects and the latest recruiting updates (azdesertswarm.com; Sills-Trausch)
The biggest news of the last week was by far the commitment of DeAndre Ayton to the Arizona Wildcats.
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander went into the Ayton story on their CBS Sports podcast. They also talked Sean Miller and Final Fours. I’d recommend a listen to this one as well.
With no national analysts expecting Ayton to come to Arizona, it pretty much blew the socks off of everyone. But Sean Miller will take it and won’t stop until he has filled all the needs he expects to have next season.
If you missed the last recruiting round-up, you can read it here.
Visits
- Sean Miller visited five-star forward P.J. Washington last Friday in Nevada at Findlay Prep. Kentucky, UNC, Kansas, and NC State are also scheduled to check in with the dynamic player. Washington will also head to Tucson on October 21-23 for an official visit. The Wildcats will have to fight off Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, and potentially one other school to land him.
- Miller also used the new recruiting period to visit four-star forward Ira Lee last Saturday, taking a quick flight from Nevada to California. Lee will be in Tucson in a month for the annual Red-Blue game. If I were to put odds on who would become the next commit, it’d be him.
- Miller also checked in on 2018 five-star forward Miles Norris.
- After "resting" for a few days, Miller will again hop on his plane destined for Texas to visit Jarred Vanderbilt on September 14. Vanderbilt is a 6-foot-8 small forward and one of the best players in this class. His recruitment seems to be up in the air at the moment with no official visits listed.
- One day ahead of hosting Sean Miller for an in-home visit, four-star sharpshooter Brandon Randolph out of New York trimmed his list to four. Arizona was included. He visited Syracuse last weekend. He's expected to take an official visit to Tucson in the coming months.
College basketball: SU opens ACC play on New Year’s Day at Boston College (watertwondailytimes.com)
The Atlantic Coast Conference has released its men’s basketball conference schedule, which completes SU’s schedule for the 2016-2017 season.
Syracuse opens conference play on New Year’s Day in Boston against Boston College before returning home for three of its next four games.
The Orange plays BC, Pittsburgh, Louisville and Georgia Tech twice while playing the ACC’s other 10 teams once each.
In fact, of the five games the Orange finish the regular season with, two are against Louisville, two are against Georgia Tech, and sandwiched right in between is a home date with Duke on Feb. 22.
On Nov. 11, Syracuse opens non-conference play the same way the football team did, with a home game against Colgate.
Part I: Every 2016-2017 Syracuse basketball non-conference matchup analyzed - The Juice Online (the juice; Irvine)
For the past three seasons, I have predicted how many games the Syracuse men’s basketball team would win using a regression model that takes into account the talent lost from the previous season, the talent of the incoming freshmen, and the value of any incoming transfers.
But this year, the model broke. By adding two graduate transfers who averaged double digit scoring and a 7’2’’ center who has already practiced with the team for a year, Jim Boeheim has broken the mold of how to reload after making the Final Four. A model based on the past won’t help us in this new paradigm, so we need a new approach.
Instead, I will use the tried-and-true method of evaluating each matchup to predict the winner. The schedule is out, so let’s get to it. Today’s predictions will cover SU’s non-conference schedule. Part II, running tomorrow, will make predictions on all ACC games.
W – vs. Colgate – The Orange has beaten Colgate 49 straight times and isn’t about to stop now.
W – vs. Holy Cross – Holy Cross returns four key seniors, but that won’t be enough for a team that went 15-20 last season.
W – vs. Monmouth – Monmouth went 28-8 last year and gained a reputation for beating major conference teams on the road. The Hawks were near the top of every list of “Biggest Snubs” by the NCAA Tournament selection committee after they were left out of the 68-team field. It will be one of Syracuse’s most difficult games in the non-conference schedule this coming season, as the Hawks return all but one key player. However, there will be no snub revenge in the Carrier Dome this season.
W – vs. South Carolina State – South Carolina State only loses one significant senior, but they ranked 267 in the KenPom last year. This win should be no problem.
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ACC Basketball: Conference schedule observations (bustingbrackets.com; Carcieri)
The ACC basketball schedule was released on Monday. What stands out when taking a deeper look?
While the ACC is not expected to receive 11 bids like the old Big East did back in 2011, this conference is loaded from top to bottom.
The Duke Blue Devils are the odds on favorite to win the National Championship, while Virginia, North Carolina, Louisville and Syracuse all have title aspirations. Even teams like North Carolina State (who brings in a highly touted recruiting class), Florida State (who adds Jonathan Isaac and returns Dwayne Bacon) and Virginia Tech (who brings back five of their top six scorers) are ready to return to the bright lights.
And then there’s Clemson and Pittsburgh – two teams that feature multiple veteran leaders that can help lead them to the Big Dance.
Because it’s the best conference in the land, we have some initial observations to take away from the release of the league’s schedule on Monday.
- For the first time ever, the Barclays Center will play host to the ACC Tournament. With the Big East remaining at Madison Square Garden, these two conferences may be competing for fans in March.
- The schedule makers did no favor to the Blue Devils, as they play four of their final six games on the road. The four road games are at Virginia, at Miami, at Syracuse and at North Carolina (to end the season).
- League play tips-off on Wednesday, December 28 with Wake Forest traveling to Florida State and Virginia taking a trip to Louisville. The Cavaliers and Cardinals will be a fun match-up based on differing style of plays and the fact that both of these teams will be competing for the second place slot in the league standings.
- On December 21 (right before the start of league play), there are an intriguing slate of games. Kentucky plays at Louisville in the Battle of the Bluegrass, North Carolina hosts one of the top mid-major teams in the country in Northern Iowa, Virginia will have to do battle with Ivan Rabb and California, Clemson travels to South Carolina to play Frank Martin’s squad and St. John’s and Syracuse take the court to decide who the best team in New York is. That’s an awfully juicy quintet of games.
- Boston College didn’t win a single conference game in 2015-16. So when will they get their first victory in 2016-17? They could potentially steal a game from Wake Forest when they play at home against the Demon Deacons at the end of January.
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http://www.courier-journal.com/stor...sketballs-10-toughest-2016-17-games/90308888/ (courier-journal.com; Greer)
The Atlantic Coast Conference announced its 2016-17 basketball schedule on Monday, ending months of intrigue about how Louisville's challenging slate would line up.
Yes, there are a few tough turnarounds - a late Thursday home game vs. Clemson and an early Saturday game at Florida State, for example - but the schedule sets up well for Rick Pitino's Cards. There is no February gauntlet of games like this past season, when Louisville played Duke (twice), North Carolina, at Notre Dame, Syracuse and Virginia in the span of 22 days.
Instead, the toughest stretch appears to be before the new year, with U of L hosting Kentucky on Dec. 21 and Virginia on Dec. 28 before a quick trip to Indianapolis on Dec. 31 for a much-anticipated game against Indiana.
More: Louisville's full 2016-17 schedule
More: Sizing up Louisville's potential strength of schedule
After that, Louisville most challenging league games are spread out: Duke is in town on Jan. 14, and the game at FSU, the Cards' only other expected-to-be-ranked opponent that entire month, is a week later. U of L goes to Virginia on Feb. 6, Syracuse on Feb. 13, North Carolina on Feb. 22 and hosts Syracuse in the return game on Feb. 26. Virginia Tech, a team that has attracted some buzz this offseason, comes to the KFC Yum! Center on Feb. 18.
With all that information in hand, we ranked Louisville's 10 toughest games for the 2016-17 basketball season. We didn't rank any of Louisville potential opponents in the Battle 4 Atlantis (namely Michigan State or Wichita State) but instead stuck with the games we know Louisville will definitely play:
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Launch of ACC Network means less Syracuse football, basketball games on local TV (PS; Carlson)
This summer's celebrated announcement of a coming ACC Network will be big for Syracuse University's wallet and its non-revenue teams, but the concept might not be as popular with football and basketball fans in Upstate New York.
In previous years, whenever ESPN has chosen not to broadcast Syracuse games, those opportunities have traditionally been picked up by local television channels, usually Time-Warner Sports. With the creation of its own network, ESPN will be much less likely to surrender those opportunities to local television stations, instead using those games to drive viewers to its online broadcasts.
No one understands that reality better than Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack, an executive with ESPN until he was hired by SU in July.
"The linear network won't launch until September 2019," Wildhack said. "For 2017 and 2018, if the game isn't on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU it's going to be on ESPN3 or ACC Network Extra. Then, beginning in 2019, that'll be on the ACC Network. Obviously, part of our goal as a conference, and ESPN's goal, is to build as broad a distribution for that network as possible."
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http://www.syracuse.com/entertainme..._to_do_this_weekend_in.html#incart_river_home (PS; Pucci)
With above-average temperatures expected this weekend, it appears that Central New York is holding on to the last bits of summer. Here are a dozen ways to enjoy the mild mid-September weekend.
Jersey Boys
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons rose from New Jersey to the national spotlight and now their story iscoming to Syracuse. The musical is stopping at the Landmark Theatre this weekend for four shows, the show's first trip back to Syracuse since 2012.
Where: Landmark Theatre, 362 S. Salina St., Syracuse
When: Thursday, Sept. 15 to Sunday, Sept. 18. Visitlandmarktheatre.org for the full schedule.
How much: Tickets start at $40 and are available at the box office, or online through Ticketmaster.
Madison County Hop Fest
Whether you like your beer paired with beer-centric appetizers, enjoyed as part of afour-course dinner, or you simply want to sample the work of more than two dozen breweries, the Madison County Hop Fest has something for you. Proceeds benefit the Madison County Historical Association.
Where: Madison County Historical Society, 435 Main St. Oneida. The dinner will be held at Colgate Inn, 1 Payne St., Hamilton.
When: Friday, Sept. 16 and Saturday, Sept. 17. Checkmadisoncountyhopfest.org for the full schedule.
How much: Taste of Hops appetizer and beer pairing: $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Craft beer sampling: $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Beer dinner: $60. Advance tickets are available at madisoncountyhopfest.org.
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