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North Carolina's Theo Pinson provides key to attacking Syracuse basketball zone (PS; Waters)
North Carolina wanted to attack the middle of Syracuse's zone defense.
More specifically, North Carolina wanted to take the ball right at Paschal Chukwu and get Syracuse's 7-foot-2 center into foul trouble.
"They contest every shot that goes to the rim,'' North Carolina senior forward Theo Pinson said, "so every point we could get in the middle I wanted to put pressure on them to make a good play and keep attacking.''
North Carolina never let up and the strategy worked.
Chukwu fouled out after playing just 15 minutes. Chukwu's back-up, freshman Bourama Sidibe, also fouled out in just 22 minutes as North Carolina thumped Syracuse 78-59 in the ACC Tournament's second round at the Barclays Center on Wednesday night.
After North Carolina's convincing victory, Pinson was asked what the key was in solving the Orange's 2-3 zone defense.
"Getting me the ball,'' Pinson said.
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Oshae Brissett is Syracuse's lone offensive bright spot in a 78-59 loss to North Carolina (DO; Bloss, Fortier)
The butterflies gone, Oshae Brissett jabbed, faked a drive and stepped back into a 3-pointer from the left wing. Syracuse’s freshman forward created all the separation he needed against North Carolina forward Cameron Johnson, who hounded him all night, and fired it from deep.
The net snapped. It allowed Brissett to breathe, for a moment. It absolved his earlier struggles: driving and airballing, driving and hitting the side of the backboard, driving and drawing a whistle for an offensive foul. It embodied the calm he felt after the nerves of the day before, when he shot 2-for-11 and missed all six 3-pointers in a win over Wake Forest.
“I couldn’t have another game like I did yesterday,” Brissett said. “I came in with a lot more confidence than I did yesterday. I was pretty nervous, first ACC Tournament game, so looking at the big lights and the atmosphere kind of got me shook up a little bit. Today, I felt like I picked my shots and I knew how to knock them down.”
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Syracuse's offense vanishes in 2nd-round of ACC Tournament, keys 78-59 loss to No. 12 North Carolina (DO; Bloss)
The shot clock was born in Syracuse in 1954, the offspring of the owner of the city’s since-relocated NBA franchise and a game that he saw as entirely too slow. Each trip down the floor, it lasted, as it still does in the Association today, for 24 seconds. Without it, single possessions could go on for several minutes.
The parents of many of Syracuse’s current players weren’t even alive back then. But in Wednesday night’s 78-59 Syracuse (20-13, 8-10 Atlantic Coast) loss to North Carolina (23-9, 11-7) in the second round of the ACC Tournament — a result that put SU in position to miss out on the NCAA Tournament three times in four years for the first time during head coach Jim Boeheim’s 42-year tenure — the Orange roster needed no history lesson to become well-acquainted with the red numbers that tick above the backboards in the Barclays Center.
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http://dailyorange.com/2018/03/fina...loss-no-12-north-carolina-acc-tournament/(DO; podcast; Staff)
Syracuse (20-13, 8-10 Atlantic Coast) got dominated inside by No. 12 North Carolina (23-9, 11-7) and was bounced from the ACC Tournament in the second round. All the Orange can do now is sit and wait for Selection Sunday, hoping its NCAA Tournament resume is good enough to earn a spot in the Big Dance.
Sam Fortier and Joe Bloss take stock of Syracuse and where it stands after Wednesday’s loss. Listen below.
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UNC ends long day with seventh straight win over Syracuse (newsobserver.com; Giglio)
North Carolina still has Syracuse’s number.
The Tar Heels had to wait all day at the ACC tournament but in the final game of the second round, they handled the Orange 78-59 to move into the quarterfinals.
UNC (23-9) will face Miami (22-8) on Thursday after its seventh straight win over Syracuse. Junior guard Kenny Williams (17 points) led the Tar Heels, who quickly turned a 10-point halftime lead into an 18-point cushion early in the second half.
It was a long and emotional day for Carolina. Early on Wednesday, legendary play-by-play announcer Woody Durham passed away. There was a moment of silence before the game for Durham, who was 76, and was the “voice of the Tar Heels” for 41 years. The UNC players had the name “Woody” on the back of their warmup jerseys.
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Dunks, defense, and days off: A look at Duke's 2018 ACC Tournament :: WRALSportsFan.com (wralsports.com; Swain)
Heading into the ACC Tournament each year, there’s one burning question that haunts all of the league’s NCAA championship contenders – is it actually BETTER to lose than it is to win?
There’s certainly one school of thought that subscribes to the idea that an early exit in the ACC Tournament is a positive heading into March Madness. Players are more rested. Perhaps lessons that have been difficult to teach are more easily absorbed by players coming off of a loss. And there’s a loose historical correlation between NCAA champs from the ACC who have lost early in the conference tournament.
The question was irrelevant a year ago for the Blue Devils because that team was never really a TRUE championship contender. They certainly could have gone deeper into the tournament than a 2nd round loss - on the road - to an eventual Final Four team in South Carolina, but there were never going to be a complete enough team to threaten six straight wins.
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Campus Framework plans for reducing carbon footprint at Syracuse University in early stages (DO; Soporito)
As part of Syracuse University’s major Campus Framework plan, officials have said they want to reduce the university’s carbon footprint and utilize more solar energy systems.
But those ideas are still in early planning stages, and it’s unclear how long it will be there is concrete action in SU’s efforts to bolster sustainability initiatives under the framework. More than a year after the first draft of the framework was released, SU still does not have specific plans on how or when it will conduct studies on possible renovations of the steam station, said Nathan Prior, director of energy systems and sustainability management.
The station, which heats the university’s Main Campus and is near the Brewster/Boland/Brockway Complex, is included in the Campus Framework draft as a target for SU to reduce its carbon footprint. But there’s no confirmed date for when those plans will be finalized.
“We’re back to the drawing board reworking some of those,” Prior said of framework plans regarding the steam station in the next 50 years.
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