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Welcome to National Good Samaritan Day!
National Good Samaritan Day reminds us to help those in need by showing kindness and compassion. Whether a small act that seems inconsequential or something big that means life or death, selfless acts of compassion help make the world a better place and strengthen human bonds. The term "Good Samaritan" comes from the Parable of the Good Samaritan, a parable told by Jesus in Luke Chapter 10. In this parable, a Jewish traveler is left for dead on the side of the road and is twice passed by. He is finally helped by a Samaritan, someone with different beliefs from Jews that normally wouldn't interact with him. The Samaritan saw the wounded traveler's humanity and showed mercy by stopping to help. Today, anyone who stops to selflessly help others for whatever reason is seen as being a Good Samaritan
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Arizona State basketball faces tough test against Syracuse zone (azcentral.com; Haller)
In some ways, given Arizona State’s up-and-down season, it’s fitting the Sun Devils open the NCAA Tournament in the First Four against Syracuse.
ASU has struggled all season against the zone. It’s a reason the Sun Devils crumbled during Pac-12 action, falling from the top of the national polls to the bottom of a weak conference. Now they face Syracuse, whose entire basketball culture is built around the zone. Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim has run it for decades.
“Obviously, everyone knows they do it as well as anybody,” ASU coach Bobby Hurley said. “We’re going to have to work hard the next two days against it and try to simulate it the best we can. I think the one thing we have in our favor is a lot of teams have zoned us in league play, so we have the experience of playing against a zone-oriented team.”
BRACKET: azcentral sports NCAA Tournament pick’em challenge
ASU has history against the Orange. During the Sun Devils’ NCAA Tournament trip in 2009, they faced Syracuse in the second round in Miami. That was Herb Sendek’s best season. He had a team featuring sophomore James Harden and senior Jeff Pendergraph, but they still couldn’t do much against Syracuse’s length.
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Did Syracuse, Oklahoma deserve to make NCAA Tournament? (si.com; video)
The inclusion of Syracuse and Oklahoma into the NCAA Tournament field of 68 drew criticism from a large group of people. Did Middle Tennessee State and Saint Mary's deserve to receive those tournament bids?
Previewing SU’s Matchup with Arizona State – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Hoppe)
For the first time since April of 2016, the Orange is back in the NCAA Tournament. SU isn’t the most talented team, but it has a real shot at winning a couple of games this weekend. The team’s first chance comes on Wednesday in the final of the tournaments First Four games. Here’s what you need to know:
Who: #11 Syracuse (20-13, 8-10 ACC) vs. #11 Arizona State (20-11, 8-10 Pac-12)
When: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at approx. 9:10 p.m.
Where: University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, OH
How to Watch: TruTV (Ian Eagle, Jim Spanarkel and Allie LaForce)
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Scouting the Sun Devils: Three things that give Arizona State an advantage over SU – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Raucci)
Against what seemed like nearly insurmountable odds, SU somehow found itself as one of the last teams in the NCAA Tournament when Selection Sunday wrapped up. Actually, Syracuse wasn’t one of the last teams in the tournament, it was the VERY last team into the field of 68 and as a result, the Orange has to play its way into the actual 64-team field in a matchup with the Arizona State Sun Devils in Dayton on Wednesday night.
Bobby Hurley’s squad finished the season just 20-11 and 8-10 in the Pac-12, but, at one point, the Sun Devils were ranked as high as third in the country and boast wins over teams like one seeds Xavier and Kansas. ASU has the ability to beat just about any team in the country. Do you want to know why? Or how can it use those strengths to its advantage against SU on Wednesday? Well, then you’ve come to the right place because we’ve got them for you here on Orange Fizz.
The Sun Devils can score… A LOT
We all know that SU’s biggest strength is undoubtedly the vaunted 2-3 zone and its top-20 defense. The Orange isn’t going to beat you by scoring a ton of points, but it will beat you by wearing you down into submission.
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March mileage: ACC teams ready to travel :: WRALSportsFan.com (wralsports.coml Holliday)
Yep, it’s time to make those travel plans ACC fans! The NCAA invited nine teams from the ACC, more than any other league.
(And it would have been 10 invites had Danny Hurley and Rhode Island taken care of business against Davidson. The Wildcats’ win kept Notre Dame at home.)
Syracuse did receive a call from its travel agent. The Orange are bound for Dayton and the NCAA First Four. I’m still trying to understand why Syracuse got that trip ahead of Notre Dame, which compiled a similar ACC record and beat the 'Cuse when playing without injured star Bonzie Colson, who is of course now healthy.
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Syracuse Basketball: SU disproves Joe Lunardi, makes NCAA’s field of 68 (itlh.com; Weisleder)
For the third straight year, ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi was wrong about Syracuse. For the second time in three years, the Orange will make him pay.
Being a fan of Syracuse’s basketball program is an exhilarating, tempestuous rollercoaster ride. Following their 19-point loss to the eventual ACC Tournament finalist North Carolina Tar Heels, Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports was quick to dismiss the Orange’s chances of making the field of 68.
Even ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, who had been wrong about the Orange making the tournament these past two years, slotted Syracuse as his seventh team out ahead of Selection Sunday. Once again, to the dismay of the highly touted Bracketologist, and College Basketball insiders around the country, the Syracuse Orange are the final team in the field of 68.
Since Syracuse is one of the more hated teams in the country, the Twitter community has already blown up with arguments against the selection committees decision to include the Orange in the field of 68. The Atlantic Coast Conference, to nobody’s surprise, will be sending an NCAA-most nine teams to dance in March Madness.
Many critics around the country were shocked to see the Orange make it over the Louisville Cardinals. However, when you look at the numbers, Jim Boeheim’s squad deserved a spot over David Padgett’s.
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https://www.democratandchronicle.co...use-selection-sunday-arizona-state/416365002/ (D&C; Devo)
Jim Boeheim went on a rant once at the Big East Tournament about Gerry McNamara being “overrated.” Remember? He used bad words. But maybe winning is overrated now. Just playing a tough schedule is enough.
March Madness: SU, St. Bonaventure earn bids to NCAA Tournament
While many experts thought Syracuse University lacked enough quality wins, squandered too many close games and fizzled a bit down the stretch, the overall Strength of Schedule (SOS) for coach Boeheim’s young Orange squad is the reason it’s back in the NCAA Tournament.
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https://accsports.com/acc-analytics/notre-dame-basketball-snubbed/ (accsports.com; Geisinger)
I was on a plane back from Brooklyn the Sunday after the ACC Tournament. About halfway through the flight, a colleague of mine reached out across the aisle to show me something on his phone. The phone’s screen read out that Davidson had just upset Rhode Island to win the Atlantic 10 title, 58-57.
At that point in time, a few hours before the Selection Sunday reveal, you don’t know who, but someone just lost a bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament. That team would turn out to be Notre Dame.
According to Bruce Rasmussen, Notre Dame lost a bid due to Davidson's win over Rhode Island in the A-10 Tournament.
— ACCSports.com (@ACCSports) March 11, 2018
What happened?
During the first week of January, Notre Dame traveled to upstate New York, and defeated Syracuse 51-49. It was a comeback victory, down nine at halftime, and it came without the team’s two best players: Bonzie Colson and Matt Farrell.
The prevailing thought may be, “Well, how does one team get usurped by a rival that it beat?”
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http://www.syracuse.com/food/index....but_beer_taste_test_video.html#incart_gallery (PS; Tulloch)
Logan Bonney and Brittany Berry created Anything But Beer to fill a "gaping hole" in the craft beverage market.
Beer is a grain-based fermented beverage, but Bonney and Berry cut out grain and malt to make alcoholic beverages for gluten-free drinkers, or drinkers who simply don't enjoy beer.
Their products aren't quite ciders nor are they wines. They're not spirits or mead either. Bonney calls them "cider-inspired fruit ales," made from local fruits, herbs, vegetables and nuts.
"Anything we can find growing here locally, we're going turn it into alcoholic beverages to increase the variety of drinks out there," said Bonney.
Take "The Root Less Traveled," for example: a sweet potato beverage spiced with cinnamon, vanilla and caramel. Or "Midnight Hike," a blueberry/black currant combo aged in oak barrels.
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