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Welcome to Near Miss Day!
March 23 is Near Miss Day, an annual reminder of the day in 1989 when an asteroid nearly collided with the Earth. The 300-meter wide asteroid called 4581 Asclepius flew past the Earth by a distance of about 450,000 miles (684,000 kms) and almost missed striking it by 6 hours.
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POWER MOVE: Inside Mike Hopkins’ departure from the only school he ever knew (DO; Schneidman, Fortier)
Mike Hopkins’ first official day at his new workplace began shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.
He strode through a barren Alaska Airlines Arena, sporting a black suit, white button-down shirt and foreign purple tie. Outside, the gray skies produced an intermittent drizzle. Scared wasn’t the word. But Hopkins is unfamiliar with change. He gazed at the empty bleachers surrounding his new court and found himself alone, an entire country away from the place he called home for 28 years.
“Holy shiitake mushrooms,” Hopkins thought. “This thing could rock.”
Just four days after sitting in the middle of a Carrier Dome bench for the last time, and four hours before his first public appearance as a head coach, Hopkins’ career dream had finally crystallized. This was his, all his, unlike 2,500 miles east. Back in Syracuse remains skepticism as to why Hopkins left when his supposed dream job of being the Orange’s head coach sat one year away with Jim Boeheim planning to step down. There’s doubt here, too, as to how a first-time head coach can re-charter a program that failed to reach double-digit wins this season with a potential No. 1 NBA Draft pick.
In this moment, though, Hopkins found serenity.
“It’s the unknown, it’s charting the waters, it’s exciting,” Hopkins told The Daily Orange after being introduced at Washington. “And I’m sitting here going, ‘Gosh, what could this be?’”
After more than two decades as Boeheim’s disciple, Hopkins accepted the head-coaching job at the University of Washington on Saturday. The 47-year-old still insists Syracuse’s head-coaching job would’ve been his in one year, that his mentor had no intentions of staying. Still, this opportunity to start anew in a career scattered with them felt different.
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Timeline of Mike Hopkins' hiring: Washington needed 2 days to pluck SU's coach-in-waiting (PS; Waters)
On Wednesday, March 15, the University of Washington fired its men's basketball coach Lorenzo Romar.
Two days later, Washington athletic director Jen Cohen was in Syracuse finalizing a deal with Syracuse assistant coach Mike Hopkins to be the Huskies' next head coach.
"In coaching searches,'' Cohen said, "you have to be swift.''
How did the University of Washington zero in so quickly on Hopkins? Why did Hopkins come to such a quick decision to give up his assumed role as Jim Boeheim's successor at Syracuse and take Cohen's job offer?
This is a timeline of events that led to Hopkins' hiring:
Wednesday, March 15
Cohen starts with a list of candidates. The list includes Hopkins' name.
"He was definitely on our radar,'' Cohen said. "Once the position was open we were able to get connections going and move forward.''
Hopkins is contacted by his agent, Bret Just of CAA.
"I kind of perked up a little bit,'' Hopkins said.
Syracuse plays UNC Greensboro in the first round of the NIT. The Orange wins 90-77.
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New coach Mike Hopkins vows to instill blue-collar work ethic into Huskies (seattletimes.com)
As introductory news conferences go, Mike Hopkins knocked it out of the park.
That was the opinion of Washington athletic director Jen Cohen, who introduced the Huskies’ newest men’s basketball coach and sat next to him on a podium for more than 30 minutes while he shared stories from his past and laid out his vision for Husky hoops.
“You got to see the guy that I’ve gotten to know,” she said. “He’s genuine. He connects. At times, he got a little emotional and for a second there. I didn’t know if he was going to keep it together.”
Hopkins choked up momentarily when he ran down his coaching influences that began with Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) High’s Gary McKnight, longtime NBA assistant Tim Grgurich, who coached the Seattle Sonics, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and his former boss, Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim.
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While describing Boeheim, who he called “my mentor, friend and father-figure,” Hopkins paused for long seconds and his voice cracked.
“He was a guy who gave a guy a shot,” the UW coach said. “He was a guy who gave a guy an opportunity when a lot of people didn’t, and I did everything in my power to make that opportunity a dream and a reality, and I want to thank him for that opportunity.”
Wednesday’s news conference at Alaska Airlines Arena ceremoniously began a new basketball chapter for a UW team that fell to historic lows this season. The Huskies finished with a school-record 13 straight defeats while bottoming out at 9-22. They were 11th in the Pac-12 at 2-16.
...
How will Syracuse basketball try to replace Tyler Lydon if he enters NBA Draft? (PS; Carlson)
The possible departure of Syracuse forward Tyler Lydon to the NBA would leave the Syracuse basketball team with just five scholarship players returning next season, three incoming freshmen committed and three open scholarships
Lydon's potential departure, while disappointing, would not be a surprise. He entered the year listed in the first round on virtually every mock draft and even Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim hinted before the season that he expected him to leave early.
On Monday, Boeheim said that Lydon had an "average" season but that he had lottery-potential if he returned. That will make it a significant challenge to replace the production Syracuse expected from him as a junior if Lydon ultimately enters the NBA Draft.
CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein has said Lydon intends to sign with an agent, but the latest from Lydon and Syracuse is that that he has not yet done so yet.
While Lydon's offensive numbers didn't take a huge sophomore leap he finished the year as the Orange's most productive rebounder (8.6) and shot-blocker (1.4), its best defender and second-leading scorer (13.2 points).
According to Ken Pomeroy's statistics, Lydon split his time almost equally between the wing and in the middle of SU's 2-3 zone, and his flexibility helped the Orange adjust to two injured centers. The Orange embraced a small-ball style that finished 30th in the country in adjusted offensive efficiency, but resulted in much worse defense and defensive rebounding than usual.
...
Despite horrible weekend, ACC still basketball’s best league - SaintPetersBlog (saintpetersblog.com; Sparks)
ACC fans, or supporters of schools outside of the SEC, often grumble about the “best conference by far” tag often given to the SEC by football pundits. Each time an SEC team loses a bowl game or a head-to-head matchup with one of the outsiders, the derision often follows.
Conversely, SEC basketball fans, or supporters of other power conferences outside of the ACC, are equally uncertain that conference is that much better than the others.
The ACC put eight teams into the NCAA Tournament field this year, including Florida State as a third seed in the West region. Of those eight, Duke and Louisville were seeded second, while Virginia and Notre Dame each earned five seeds.
North Carolina was one of the tournament’s four top seeds. Clearly, the selection committee was high on the ACC.
Despite this, only North Carolina was able to survive the first weekend. FSU was sent home in embarrassing fashion by 11th seeded Xavier, but the Seminoles and their fans were far from alone in their despair.
...
Other
The 'mystery' of Thousand Island dressing: Travel Channel takes another look (PS; Cazentre)
In 2011, Syracuse-based documentary filmmakers Eric J. Roberts and Andrea Reeves set out to explore the "mystery" of the origins of Thousand Island salad dressing.
They produced a one-hour PBS documentary devoted to the thick and tangy dressing and its connections to Upstate New York's Thousand Island region in the early 20th century. They "solved" the mystery.
"Mysteries at the Museum," hosted by Don Wildman, typically includes segments that feature historical or scientific uncertainties whose secrets are unlocked at a museum.
Roberts and Reeves, in their film "The Mysterious Origins of Thousand Island Dressing," found the key to their puzzle in the Thousand Islands Museum in Clayton. Their discovery is shown in the second of three segments in the "Mysteries at the Museum" episode airing this week.
"We had no idea they were doing this," said Roberts, a Syracuse advertising executive with TV writing and production experience. "Somebody said, 'Hey did you guys know you were going to be on the Travel Channel?' " We did not know."
...
Welcome to Near Miss Day!
March 23 is Near Miss Day, an annual reminder of the day in 1989 when an asteroid nearly collided with the Earth. The 300-meter wide asteroid called 4581 Asclepius flew past the Earth by a distance of about 450,000 miles (684,000 kms) and almost missed striking it by 6 hours.
SU News
POWER MOVE: Inside Mike Hopkins’ departure from the only school he ever knew (DO; Schneidman, Fortier)
Mike Hopkins’ first official day at his new workplace began shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.
He strode through a barren Alaska Airlines Arena, sporting a black suit, white button-down shirt and foreign purple tie. Outside, the gray skies produced an intermittent drizzle. Scared wasn’t the word. But Hopkins is unfamiliar with change. He gazed at the empty bleachers surrounding his new court and found himself alone, an entire country away from the place he called home for 28 years.
“Holy shiitake mushrooms,” Hopkins thought. “This thing could rock.”
Just four days after sitting in the middle of a Carrier Dome bench for the last time, and four hours before his first public appearance as a head coach, Hopkins’ career dream had finally crystallized. This was his, all his, unlike 2,500 miles east. Back in Syracuse remains skepticism as to why Hopkins left when his supposed dream job of being the Orange’s head coach sat one year away with Jim Boeheim planning to step down. There’s doubt here, too, as to how a first-time head coach can re-charter a program that failed to reach double-digit wins this season with a potential No. 1 NBA Draft pick.
In this moment, though, Hopkins found serenity.
“It’s the unknown, it’s charting the waters, it’s exciting,” Hopkins told The Daily Orange after being introduced at Washington. “And I’m sitting here going, ‘Gosh, what could this be?’”
After more than two decades as Boeheim’s disciple, Hopkins accepted the head-coaching job at the University of Washington on Saturday. The 47-year-old still insists Syracuse’s head-coaching job would’ve been his in one year, that his mentor had no intentions of staying. Still, this opportunity to start anew in a career scattered with them felt different.
...
Timeline of Mike Hopkins' hiring: Washington needed 2 days to pluck SU's coach-in-waiting (PS; Waters)
On Wednesday, March 15, the University of Washington fired its men's basketball coach Lorenzo Romar.
Two days later, Washington athletic director Jen Cohen was in Syracuse finalizing a deal with Syracuse assistant coach Mike Hopkins to be the Huskies' next head coach.
"In coaching searches,'' Cohen said, "you have to be swift.''
How did the University of Washington zero in so quickly on Hopkins? Why did Hopkins come to such a quick decision to give up his assumed role as Jim Boeheim's successor at Syracuse and take Cohen's job offer?
This is a timeline of events that led to Hopkins' hiring:
Wednesday, March 15
Cohen starts with a list of candidates. The list includes Hopkins' name.
"He was definitely on our radar,'' Cohen said. "Once the position was open we were able to get connections going and move forward.''
Hopkins is contacted by his agent, Bret Just of CAA.
"I kind of perked up a little bit,'' Hopkins said.
Syracuse plays UNC Greensboro in the first round of the NIT. The Orange wins 90-77.
...
New coach Mike Hopkins vows to instill blue-collar work ethic into Huskies (seattletimes.com)
As introductory news conferences go, Mike Hopkins knocked it out of the park.
That was the opinion of Washington athletic director Jen Cohen, who introduced the Huskies’ newest men’s basketball coach and sat next to him on a podium for more than 30 minutes while he shared stories from his past and laid out his vision for Husky hoops.
“You got to see the guy that I’ve gotten to know,” she said. “He’s genuine. He connects. At times, he got a little emotional and for a second there. I didn’t know if he was going to keep it together.”
Hopkins choked up momentarily when he ran down his coaching influences that began with Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) High’s Gary McKnight, longtime NBA assistant Tim Grgurich, who coached the Seattle Sonics, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and his former boss, Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim.
Unlimited Digital Access. $1 for 4 weeks.
While describing Boeheim, who he called “my mentor, friend and father-figure,” Hopkins paused for long seconds and his voice cracked.
“He was a guy who gave a guy a shot,” the UW coach said. “He was a guy who gave a guy an opportunity when a lot of people didn’t, and I did everything in my power to make that opportunity a dream and a reality, and I want to thank him for that opportunity.”
Wednesday’s news conference at Alaska Airlines Arena ceremoniously began a new basketball chapter for a UW team that fell to historic lows this season. The Huskies finished with a school-record 13 straight defeats while bottoming out at 9-22. They were 11th in the Pac-12 at 2-16.
...
How will Syracuse basketball try to replace Tyler Lydon if he enters NBA Draft? (PS; Carlson)
The possible departure of Syracuse forward Tyler Lydon to the NBA would leave the Syracuse basketball team with just five scholarship players returning next season, three incoming freshmen committed and three open scholarships
Lydon's potential departure, while disappointing, would not be a surprise. He entered the year listed in the first round on virtually every mock draft and even Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim hinted before the season that he expected him to leave early.
On Monday, Boeheim said that Lydon had an "average" season but that he had lottery-potential if he returned. That will make it a significant challenge to replace the production Syracuse expected from him as a junior if Lydon ultimately enters the NBA Draft.
CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein has said Lydon intends to sign with an agent, but the latest from Lydon and Syracuse is that that he has not yet done so yet.
While Lydon's offensive numbers didn't take a huge sophomore leap he finished the year as the Orange's most productive rebounder (8.6) and shot-blocker (1.4), its best defender and second-leading scorer (13.2 points).
According to Ken Pomeroy's statistics, Lydon split his time almost equally between the wing and in the middle of SU's 2-3 zone, and his flexibility helped the Orange adjust to two injured centers. The Orange embraced a small-ball style that finished 30th in the country in adjusted offensive efficiency, but resulted in much worse defense and defensive rebounding than usual.
...
Despite horrible weekend, ACC still basketball’s best league - SaintPetersBlog (saintpetersblog.com; Sparks)
ACC fans, or supporters of schools outside of the SEC, often grumble about the “best conference by far” tag often given to the SEC by football pundits. Each time an SEC team loses a bowl game or a head-to-head matchup with one of the outsiders, the derision often follows.
Conversely, SEC basketball fans, or supporters of other power conferences outside of the ACC, are equally uncertain that conference is that much better than the others.
The ACC put eight teams into the NCAA Tournament field this year, including Florida State as a third seed in the West region. Of those eight, Duke and Louisville were seeded second, while Virginia and Notre Dame each earned five seeds.
North Carolina was one of the tournament’s four top seeds. Clearly, the selection committee was high on the ACC.
Despite this, only North Carolina was able to survive the first weekend. FSU was sent home in embarrassing fashion by 11th seeded Xavier, but the Seminoles and their fans were far from alone in their despair.
...
Other
The 'mystery' of Thousand Island dressing: Travel Channel takes another look (PS; Cazentre)
In 2011, Syracuse-based documentary filmmakers Eric J. Roberts and Andrea Reeves set out to explore the "mystery" of the origins of Thousand Island salad dressing.
They produced a one-hour PBS documentary devoted to the thick and tangy dressing and its connections to Upstate New York's Thousand Island region in the early 20th century. They "solved" the mystery.
"Mysteries at the Museum," hosted by Don Wildman, typically includes segments that feature historical or scientific uncertainties whose secrets are unlocked at a museum.
Roberts and Reeves, in their film "The Mysterious Origins of Thousand Island Dressing," found the key to their puzzle in the Thousand Islands Museum in Clayton. Their discovery is shown in the second of three segments in the "Mysteries at the Museum" episode airing this week.
"We had no idea they were doing this," said Roberts, a Syracuse advertising executive with TV writing and production experience. "Somebody said, 'Hey did you guys know you were going to be on the Travel Channel?' " We did not know."
...
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