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Welcome to Groundhog Day!
Groundhog Day is a traditional holiday celebrated on February 2 every year.
That’s today – happy Groundhog Day!
What does Groundhog Day mean and where does it come from?
According to folklore, if the weather is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on February 2, then spring will come early that year.
If it is sunny, the groundhog will see its shadow and head back inside – and winter will continue for another six weeks.
SU News
NC State loses 100-93 to Syracuse in OT; Dennis Smith Jr. has triple-double (charlotteobserver.com; Giglio)
John Gillon carried Syracuse in regulation. Andrew White carried the Orange to its first ACC road win of the season in overtime.
Gillon, a graduate transfer from Colorado State, scored a career-high 43 points while White scored the first seven points in overtime to hand N.C. State a 100-93 loss on Wednesday night.
N.C State (14-9, 3-7 ACC) got another triple-double from freshman point guard Dennis Smith Jr. and led by as many as 15 points in the second half, but Gillon wouldn’t let the Orange (14-9, 6-4) lose.
Gillon made nine 3-pointers and all 14 of his free throws to give the Orange its first ACC road win after it had lost its first four to open conference play.
Smith became the first player in ACC history to record two triple-doubles in conference play. He had 13 points, 11 rebounds and 15 assists to go with a 27-11-11 effort he had on Jan. 4 in a win over Virginia Tech.
Sophomore wing Maverick Rowan scored a career-high with 31 points to help Smith but missed a jumper at the buzzer at the end of regulation that would have won the game.
[Box score, game recap, more stats]
[Complete coverage of the N.C. State Wolfpack]
Rowan made eight 3s and junior forward Abdul-Malik Abu added 19 points.
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Syracuse loss will leave a mark on Wolfpack (charlotteobserver.com; Giglio)
It’s easier to no-show and lose than it is to lose the way N.C. State did on Wednesday.
You get run out of the gym, like N.C. State did at Louisville or at North Carolina earlier this season, and there are no second-guesses or “what ifs?” It’s just a simple matter of effort and being overwhelmed.
Then there are losses like the 100-93 overtime decision to Syracuse.
“That one hurts,” N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said.
It does, and not only because N.C. State led by 16 points with 8:30 left in regulation, but also because the prerequisite effort was there for the Wolfpack (14-9, 3-7 ACC) to put a little life back in its season.
N.C. State led 87-84 after Maverick Rowan’s 3-pointer with 10.5 seconds left but John Gillon, who set a new PNC Arena record with 43 points, forced overtime with his own off-balance 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left.
“I’m sick to my stomach for (the players) because I thought they played extremely hard and I thought they did enough to win the game,” Gottfried said.
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But Gillon had a lot of other clean looks from 3. Ones, teammate Andrew White, was quite frankly surprised by N.C. State’s defensive strategy.
“The hedge was kind of soft and his man was going under the screen,” said White, who had nine of his 28 points in overtime. “So you know, in ACC basketball, that’s easy pickings.”
And that’s the problem for N.C. State and has been all season. Defensively, the Wolfpack can’t quite find its way.
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Syracuse guard’s 43 points were new record at PNC Arena. More than Steph and Warren (charlotteobserver.com; Alexander)
Syracuse guard John Gillon had one of the most efficient games you’ll ever see against N.C. State Wednesday night at PNC Arena.
He scored 43 points on only 13 shot attempts. Nine of the 10 shots he made were 3-pointers. And he only missed one 3-pointer. He was 14 for 14 from the free throw line. And when a N.C. State fan continued to heckle him throughout the game, saying he was “too short for basketball,” Gillon winked at him.
“He was hating too hard,” Gillon said after the game. “He needed to sit down so I played with him a little bit.”
[Box score, game recap, more stats]
[Complete coverage of the N.C. State Wolfpack]
Gillon is a journeyman. Before attending Syracuse as graduate student this year, Gillon had previous stops at Arkansas-Little Rock for one season, and Colorado State for two.
Prior to Wednesday’s game, Gillon had hit 12, 3-pointers in nine games of ACC play. And his previous career-high in points were 28 last season when he played for Colorado State.
But Wednesday night, Gillon was better than good. His 43 points were the most scored at PNC Arena ever. Yes, more than Steph Curry’s 40 points in 2008, and T.J. Warren’s 42 in 2014.
“Once I hit a few, I feel like I’m hot,” Gillon said.
Syracuse (14-9, 6-4 ACC) beat N.C. State (14-9, 3-7 ACC) 100-93.
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Instant reactions: NC State drops overtime loss to Syracuse (charlotteobserver.com; Giglio)
Quick takes from N.C. State’s 100-93 overtime loss to Syracuse on Wednesday night:
1) John who?
John Gillon spent a year at Arkansas-Little Rock and three at Colorado State before transferring to Syracuse this year.
The 6-foot point guard had played in 117 college basketball games before Wednesday night and never scored 30 points in a game.
Gillon had 43 in Syracuse’s 100-93 overtime win at N.C. State. He was an incredible 9 of 10 from the 3-point line and perfect 14 of 14 from the foul line. Gillon also threw in nine assists for good measure.
He entered the game with an 8.9 scoring average but did have 21 points, and 11 assists, in Syracuse’s win over Florida State on Saturday.
Still, in Syracuse’s first nine ACC games, Gillon was 12 of 38 from the 3-point line. He nearly matched that total on Wednesday.
Crazy to think I’ve seen Steph Curry score 40 points here in an NCAA tournament game (on eight 3s) and Marcus Paige light the place with seven 3s in a half but Gillon’s performance topped them all.
...
Wolfpack once again left wondering what might have been – DeCock (charlotteobserver.com; DeCock)
Even on the night when N.C. State finally seemed to reach its full potential – three months late, but nevertheless – the Wolfpack was still left staggered and wondering what might have been.
For 31 minutes, it was impossible to shake the sense that this is what it should have been like all along. The final nine, and overtime, drove home just how fragile the Wolfpack really is, with the disturbing additional punch to the solar plexus that N.C. State’s last-last-last chance to turn its season around has passed.
After this 100-93 overtime loss, the Wolfpack, after blowing a 16-point lead over Syracuse on Wednesday, now faces the very real possibility of going 0-for-February, given not only a difficult schedule but its inability to close out an opponent that had yet to win an ACC road game.
Things could hardly have gone any better for N.C. State for the first three quarters of regulation as the Wolfpack set records and knocked in shots. Dennis Smith Jr. made ACC history with his second triple-double of the season against a conference opponent and Maverick Rowan set a new career-high with 31 points.
With Smith a whirling dervish, darting and distributing, and Terry Henderson and Rowan banging in 3-pointers, and Abdul-Malik Abu dunking and – as much as anything – N.C. State actually playing defense, the Wolfpack finally looked the way it was supposed to, the way Mark Gottfried probably imagined over the summer.
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Syracuse basketball defeats NC State 100-93 in overtime (Brent Axe recap) (PS; phot gallery; Axe)
Stone Cold
By: Brent Axe
The 2017 NCAA Tournament hopes of the Syracuse University men's basketball team are alive and well thanks to one of the greatest individual performances in school history. John Gillon's 43 points in a 10093 overtime victory over NC State on Feb. 1, 2017 will not soon be forgotten no matter the fate of SU's postseason bid. It was a 'Stone Cold' performance.
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Other
Under Destiny USA is the Oil City, and it’s posing environmental problems for the construction of a hotel near the mall (DO; Bulman)
While shopping at Destiny USA, you would never imagine that your car was parked on top of a contamination site. And the resurrection of a new hotel near the mall will help the southern shore of Onondaga Lake wear a guise of good health. But this latest construction endeavor is unearthing an ugly memory of Syracuse’s past: Beneath the mall’s layers of concrete rests the remnants of Oil City.
As the hotel, Embassy Suites by Hilton, is built, the community has raised concerns about what contaminants may be disturbed in the construction process. Earlier this month, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced a proposed cleanup of the site and announced it is accepting written comments about the cleanup plan until March 2. Although the area — right on the shore of Onondaga Lake — doesn’t “pose a significant risk,” the proposal included a list of contaminants present, none of which sound easy to get rid of.
In fact, the proposed cleanup plan won’t get rid of everything at all, which is typical for chemicals lurking in and around Onondaga Lake. Before a significant cleanup initiative helped decontaminate the lake, it was actually known as the most polluted lake in the United States, according to NPR. And residents of central New York appear apt to forget what it looked like not too long ago.
Before there was a mall, there was an oil tank farm run by major petroleum companies. After decades of abuse, the sandy soil and swamp absorbed the petroleum that been pumped out by about 80 storage facilities, according to an Onondaga Lake Management Plan Status Report.
There are a lot of hard questions that need to be asked before the cleanup plan is approved, said Lindsay Speer, director of Creating Change Consulting, an organization that works with grassroots groups, nonprofits and native nations.
...
Groundhog Day is a traditional holiday celebrated on February 2 every year.
That’s today – happy Groundhog Day!
What does Groundhog Day mean and where does it come from?
According to folklore, if the weather is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on February 2, then spring will come early that year.
If it is sunny, the groundhog will see its shadow and head back inside – and winter will continue for another six weeks.
SU News
NC State loses 100-93 to Syracuse in OT; Dennis Smith Jr. has triple-double (charlotteobserver.com; Giglio)
John Gillon carried Syracuse in regulation. Andrew White carried the Orange to its first ACC road win of the season in overtime.
Gillon, a graduate transfer from Colorado State, scored a career-high 43 points while White scored the first seven points in overtime to hand N.C. State a 100-93 loss on Wednesday night.
N.C State (14-9, 3-7 ACC) got another triple-double from freshman point guard Dennis Smith Jr. and led by as many as 15 points in the second half, but Gillon wouldn’t let the Orange (14-9, 6-4) lose.
Gillon made nine 3-pointers and all 14 of his free throws to give the Orange its first ACC road win after it had lost its first four to open conference play.
Smith became the first player in ACC history to record two triple-doubles in conference play. He had 13 points, 11 rebounds and 15 assists to go with a 27-11-11 effort he had on Jan. 4 in a win over Virginia Tech.
Sophomore wing Maverick Rowan scored a career-high with 31 points to help Smith but missed a jumper at the buzzer at the end of regulation that would have won the game.
[Box score, game recap, more stats]
[Complete coverage of the N.C. State Wolfpack]
Rowan made eight 3s and junior forward Abdul-Malik Abu added 19 points.
...
Syracuse loss will leave a mark on Wolfpack (charlotteobserver.com; Giglio)
It’s easier to no-show and lose than it is to lose the way N.C. State did on Wednesday.
You get run out of the gym, like N.C. State did at Louisville or at North Carolina earlier this season, and there are no second-guesses or “what ifs?” It’s just a simple matter of effort and being overwhelmed.
Then there are losses like the 100-93 overtime decision to Syracuse.
“That one hurts,” N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said.
It does, and not only because N.C. State led by 16 points with 8:30 left in regulation, but also because the prerequisite effort was there for the Wolfpack (14-9, 3-7 ACC) to put a little life back in its season.
N.C. State led 87-84 after Maverick Rowan’s 3-pointer with 10.5 seconds left but John Gillon, who set a new PNC Arena record with 43 points, forced overtime with his own off-balance 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left.
“I’m sick to my stomach for (the players) because I thought they played extremely hard and I thought they did enough to win the game,” Gottfried said.
...
...
But Gillon had a lot of other clean looks from 3. Ones, teammate Andrew White, was quite frankly surprised by N.C. State’s defensive strategy.
“The hedge was kind of soft and his man was going under the screen,” said White, who had nine of his 28 points in overtime. “So you know, in ACC basketball, that’s easy pickings.”
And that’s the problem for N.C. State and has been all season. Defensively, the Wolfpack can’t quite find its way.
...
Syracuse guard’s 43 points were new record at PNC Arena. More than Steph and Warren (charlotteobserver.com; Alexander)
Syracuse guard John Gillon had one of the most efficient games you’ll ever see against N.C. State Wednesday night at PNC Arena.
He scored 43 points on only 13 shot attempts. Nine of the 10 shots he made were 3-pointers. And he only missed one 3-pointer. He was 14 for 14 from the free throw line. And when a N.C. State fan continued to heckle him throughout the game, saying he was “too short for basketball,” Gillon winked at him.
“He was hating too hard,” Gillon said after the game. “He needed to sit down so I played with him a little bit.”
[Box score, game recap, more stats]
[Complete coverage of the N.C. State Wolfpack]
Gillon is a journeyman. Before attending Syracuse as graduate student this year, Gillon had previous stops at Arkansas-Little Rock for one season, and Colorado State for two.
Prior to Wednesday’s game, Gillon had hit 12, 3-pointers in nine games of ACC play. And his previous career-high in points were 28 last season when he played for Colorado State.
But Wednesday night, Gillon was better than good. His 43 points were the most scored at PNC Arena ever. Yes, more than Steph Curry’s 40 points in 2008, and T.J. Warren’s 42 in 2014.
“Once I hit a few, I feel like I’m hot,” Gillon said.
Syracuse (14-9, 6-4 ACC) beat N.C. State (14-9, 3-7 ACC) 100-93.
...
Instant reactions: NC State drops overtime loss to Syracuse (charlotteobserver.com; Giglio)
Quick takes from N.C. State’s 100-93 overtime loss to Syracuse on Wednesday night:
1) John who?
John Gillon spent a year at Arkansas-Little Rock and three at Colorado State before transferring to Syracuse this year.
The 6-foot point guard had played in 117 college basketball games before Wednesday night and never scored 30 points in a game.
Gillon had 43 in Syracuse’s 100-93 overtime win at N.C. State. He was an incredible 9 of 10 from the 3-point line and perfect 14 of 14 from the foul line. Gillon also threw in nine assists for good measure.
He entered the game with an 8.9 scoring average but did have 21 points, and 11 assists, in Syracuse’s win over Florida State on Saturday.
Still, in Syracuse’s first nine ACC games, Gillon was 12 of 38 from the 3-point line. He nearly matched that total on Wednesday.
Crazy to think I’ve seen Steph Curry score 40 points here in an NCAA tournament game (on eight 3s) and Marcus Paige light the place with seven 3s in a half but Gillon’s performance topped them all.
...
Wolfpack once again left wondering what might have been – DeCock (charlotteobserver.com; DeCock)
Even on the night when N.C. State finally seemed to reach its full potential – three months late, but nevertheless – the Wolfpack was still left staggered and wondering what might have been.
For 31 minutes, it was impossible to shake the sense that this is what it should have been like all along. The final nine, and overtime, drove home just how fragile the Wolfpack really is, with the disturbing additional punch to the solar plexus that N.C. State’s last-last-last chance to turn its season around has passed.
After this 100-93 overtime loss, the Wolfpack, after blowing a 16-point lead over Syracuse on Wednesday, now faces the very real possibility of going 0-for-February, given not only a difficult schedule but its inability to close out an opponent that had yet to win an ACC road game.
Things could hardly have gone any better for N.C. State for the first three quarters of regulation as the Wolfpack set records and knocked in shots. Dennis Smith Jr. made ACC history with his second triple-double of the season against a conference opponent and Maverick Rowan set a new career-high with 31 points.
With Smith a whirling dervish, darting and distributing, and Terry Henderson and Rowan banging in 3-pointers, and Abdul-Malik Abu dunking and – as much as anything – N.C. State actually playing defense, the Wolfpack finally looked the way it was supposed to, the way Mark Gottfried probably imagined over the summer.
...
Syracuse basketball defeats NC State 100-93 in overtime (Brent Axe recap) (PS; phot gallery; Axe)
Stone Cold
By: Brent Axe
The 2017 NCAA Tournament hopes of the Syracuse University men's basketball team are alive and well thanks to one of the greatest individual performances in school history. John Gillon's 43 points in a 10093 overtime victory over NC State on Feb. 1, 2017 will not soon be forgotten no matter the fate of SU's postseason bid. It was a 'Stone Cold' performance.
...
Other
Under Destiny USA is the Oil City, and it’s posing environmental problems for the construction of a hotel near the mall (DO; Bulman)
While shopping at Destiny USA, you would never imagine that your car was parked on top of a contamination site. And the resurrection of a new hotel near the mall will help the southern shore of Onondaga Lake wear a guise of good health. But this latest construction endeavor is unearthing an ugly memory of Syracuse’s past: Beneath the mall’s layers of concrete rests the remnants of Oil City.
As the hotel, Embassy Suites by Hilton, is built, the community has raised concerns about what contaminants may be disturbed in the construction process. Earlier this month, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced a proposed cleanup of the site and announced it is accepting written comments about the cleanup plan until March 2. Although the area — right on the shore of Onondaga Lake — doesn’t “pose a significant risk,” the proposal included a list of contaminants present, none of which sound easy to get rid of.
In fact, the proposed cleanup plan won’t get rid of everything at all, which is typical for chemicals lurking in and around Onondaga Lake. Before a significant cleanup initiative helped decontaminate the lake, it was actually known as the most polluted lake in the United States, according to NPR. And residents of central New York appear apt to forget what it looked like not too long ago.
Before there was a mall, there was an oil tank farm run by major petroleum companies. After decades of abuse, the sandy soil and swamp absorbed the petroleum that been pumped out by about 80 storage facilities, according to an Onondaga Lake Management Plan Status Report.
There are a lot of hard questions that need to be asked before the cleanup plan is approved, said Lindsay Speer, director of Creating Change Consulting, an organization that works with grassroots groups, nonprofits and native nations.
...
