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Welcome to Fat Thursday!
Taking place on the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday, which begins Lent, Fat Thursday is a Christian feast that is primarily celebrated in European countries. It is similar to Fat Tuesday, which is celebrated the following week, but in many European countries, it is the more important holiday of the two. It also is associated with Carnival. As much fasting is done during Lent, Fat Thursday is a day for getting together and eating sweets and other foods that are eschewed during that season. Commonly eaten foods include pączki, berliners, and angel wings.
SU News
Syracuse Basketball: Bracket matrix update, top takeaways from UNC loss (itlh.com; Adler)
The Syracuse basketball squad performed admirably versus North Carolina on the road, but SU, unfortunately, faltered a bit down the stretch.
An offensive explosion occurred on Tuesday night in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the ‘Cuse hoops outfit did almost everything humanly possible to upset No. 5 North Carolina at the Smith Center. I know it stings that the Orange (18-10, 9-6) lost by eight points to the Tar Heels (23-5, 13-2), but there’s a lot to feel proud about in this affair.
SU shot proficient from the floor and from beyond the arc. It kept turnovers to a reasonable number, and Syracuse shared the ball well. When UNC went on runs to create some separation, the ‘Cuse responded on virtually every instance to keep the margin within reach. Junior wing Tyus Battle proved stellar after intermission. Furthermore, despite going 1-2 in its last three contests, the Orange has hung tough with then-No. 1 Duke and a highly rated Tar Heels outfit, and SU destroyed then-No. 18 Louisville.
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Bowman leads Boston College to 66-59 victory over Louisville (ESPN; AP)
Louisville center Steven Enoch beat his defender and went up for the dunk, slamming the ball down with the full force his 6-foot-10, 260-pound body could muster.
But he was just a little off.
The ball banged off the back of the rim and flew all the way across midcourt.
"Sickening to watch," Cardinals coach Chris Mack said on Wednesday night after a 66-59 Boston College victory sent recently ranked Louisville to its sixth loss in eight games.
"Go up to dunk the ball and it looks cooler to hit it off and back of the rim and go over half court," Mack said with obvious frustration. "I mean, we're just not making winning plays. Not making winning plays on either end the floor."
Ky Bowman had 25 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, hitting a 3-pointer with 2:31 to play to put BC ahead for good and the Eagles beat Louisville 66-59 for their first win over the Cardinals since the schools joined the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Nik Popovic had 16 points and nine rebounds for BC (14-13, 5-10 ACC), which had lost two in a row.
Enoch had a career-high 22 points for Louisville, which had been ranked as high as No. 15 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Jan. 28. The Cardinals (18-11, 9-7) have since lost to ranked teams North Carolina, Florida State, Duke and Virginia, but also unranked Syracuse and BC.
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This Year's NCAA Tournament Bubble Isn't Unusually Weak, but It Is Shallow (yahoo.com; Beller)
Contrary to what you might have heard, this is not the softest bubble ever. How do I know? Well, first of all, there’s no way to really quantify it. How would you? If I were trying to, I’d probably start with the collective records and average RPI, kenpom and Sagarin rankings of the last few teams in the field. Bart Torvik keeps track over at his site of a metric he calls bid rate, and that, too, would be helpful in determining how soft this bubble is relative to other years. Still, the shifting ground that is the bubble landscape contains too many variables from year to year for which there isn’t a control element, and that makes an apples-to-apples comparison almost impossible.
Second, the bubble is always soft. You know why? Bubble teams, by their nature, are always mediocre. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be bubble teams. Not everyone can be Duke or Virginia. Forget that, not everyone can be Maryland or Nevada, Iowa State or Cincinnati either. The bubble always has been, and always will be, soft.
Referring to this bubble as the softest ever may be a misnomer, but there is something unique about it. The current SI.com Bubble Watch Committee has been on the job since the 2013–14 season, and it cannot recall as shallow a bubble as we’re seeing this year. Consider the first eight teams out of our field of 68 in our most recent Bracket Watch: Clemson, Georgetown, Butler, Furman, Belmont, Saint Mary’s, Dayton and Nebraska.
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Syracuse (18-10, NET: 44, SOS: 13, Q1: 3-6, Q2: 5-3, Q3+Q4 Losses: 1)
Syracuse stuck with North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, a loss after which it can hold its head high. The Orange still have a regular season meeting with Virginia on tap next week, and their other two games before the ACC tournament are both on the road against Wake Forest and Clemson. We’ll assume a win against the Demon Deacons, which are 10-16 overall and 3-11 in conference, but the Orange will likely be underdogs in the other two. If they lose both, they’ll go into the ACC tournament at 19-12 overall and 3-8 against Q1 teams. The shallowness of the bubble should keep them on the right side of the divide, but they cannot afford a bad loss without a meaningful win. That means they must beat Wake Forest and avoid a loss to a team off the at-large radar in the ACC tournament.
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Other
We're hitting the road to find Central New York's best fish fry. We tallied all the nominations and named our four finalists. We made our third stop of the search Wednesday at Doug's Fish Fry in Skaneateles. Judging the Best of CNY fish fry are: Jacob Pucci and Charlie Miller from syracuse.com and longtime restaurateur Bob Corning.
As the judges visit each finalist, the public can vote on which restaurant the readers' choice award.
In the meantime, here's a look at our trip so far with a few details of our meals. Our full reviews will come when we announce the winners on Friday, March 1.
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Doug's Fish Fry
Nowadays, Mark Edwards runs the show at Doug's. One of the many plaques and framed newspaper clippings that line the restaurant's walls tell the story of how Edwards showed up at Doug's on opening day in 1982 and asked for an order of fries and a job application.
Edwards said the restaurant uses scrod, a classification of young whitefish, such as cod or haddock. When we visited on Wednesday, it was haddock. The fresh fish arrives from a Boston-based supplier five times a week. The fish is trimmed in-house, breaded, fried in soybean oil and served skinless atop a seeded bun that covers maybe a third of the almost comically-large fillet.
A fish dinner at Doug's comes with either French fries ($11.50) or onion rings ($12.50). While the fries, freshly cut in-house, are good, the onions rings are the star. Cut from whole onions and served in a heaping mountain on the paper plate, these onions rings are crunchy and particularly good when dipped in the honey curry dipping sauce, one of four condiments Doug's makes.
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Welcome to Fat Thursday!
Taking place on the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday, which begins Lent, Fat Thursday is a Christian feast that is primarily celebrated in European countries. It is similar to Fat Tuesday, which is celebrated the following week, but in many European countries, it is the more important holiday of the two. It also is associated with Carnival. As much fasting is done during Lent, Fat Thursday is a day for getting together and eating sweets and other foods that are eschewed during that season. Commonly eaten foods include pączki, berliners, and angel wings.
SU News
Syracuse Basketball: Bracket matrix update, top takeaways from UNC loss (itlh.com; Adler)
The Syracuse basketball squad performed admirably versus North Carolina on the road, but SU, unfortunately, faltered a bit down the stretch.
An offensive explosion occurred on Tuesday night in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the ‘Cuse hoops outfit did almost everything humanly possible to upset No. 5 North Carolina at the Smith Center. I know it stings that the Orange (18-10, 9-6) lost by eight points to the Tar Heels (23-5, 13-2), but there’s a lot to feel proud about in this affair.
SU shot proficient from the floor and from beyond the arc. It kept turnovers to a reasonable number, and Syracuse shared the ball well. When UNC went on runs to create some separation, the ‘Cuse responded on virtually every instance to keep the margin within reach. Junior wing Tyus Battle proved stellar after intermission. Furthermore, despite going 1-2 in its last three contests, the Orange has hung tough with then-No. 1 Duke and a highly rated Tar Heels outfit, and SU destroyed then-No. 18 Louisville.
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Bowman leads Boston College to 66-59 victory over Louisville (ESPN; AP)
Louisville center Steven Enoch beat his defender and went up for the dunk, slamming the ball down with the full force his 6-foot-10, 260-pound body could muster.
But he was just a little off.
The ball banged off the back of the rim and flew all the way across midcourt.
"Sickening to watch," Cardinals coach Chris Mack said on Wednesday night after a 66-59 Boston College victory sent recently ranked Louisville to its sixth loss in eight games.
"Go up to dunk the ball and it looks cooler to hit it off and back of the rim and go over half court," Mack said with obvious frustration. "I mean, we're just not making winning plays. Not making winning plays on either end the floor."
Ky Bowman had 25 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, hitting a 3-pointer with 2:31 to play to put BC ahead for good and the Eagles beat Louisville 66-59 for their first win over the Cardinals since the schools joined the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Nik Popovic had 16 points and nine rebounds for BC (14-13, 5-10 ACC), which had lost two in a row.
Enoch had a career-high 22 points for Louisville, which had been ranked as high as No. 15 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Jan. 28. The Cardinals (18-11, 9-7) have since lost to ranked teams North Carolina, Florida State, Duke and Virginia, but also unranked Syracuse and BC.
...
This Year's NCAA Tournament Bubble Isn't Unusually Weak, but It Is Shallow (yahoo.com; Beller)
Contrary to what you might have heard, this is not the softest bubble ever. How do I know? Well, first of all, there’s no way to really quantify it. How would you? If I were trying to, I’d probably start with the collective records and average RPI, kenpom and Sagarin rankings of the last few teams in the field. Bart Torvik keeps track over at his site of a metric he calls bid rate, and that, too, would be helpful in determining how soft this bubble is relative to other years. Still, the shifting ground that is the bubble landscape contains too many variables from year to year for which there isn’t a control element, and that makes an apples-to-apples comparison almost impossible.
Second, the bubble is always soft. You know why? Bubble teams, by their nature, are always mediocre. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be bubble teams. Not everyone can be Duke or Virginia. Forget that, not everyone can be Maryland or Nevada, Iowa State or Cincinnati either. The bubble always has been, and always will be, soft.
Referring to this bubble as the softest ever may be a misnomer, but there is something unique about it. The current SI.com Bubble Watch Committee has been on the job since the 2013–14 season, and it cannot recall as shallow a bubble as we’re seeing this year. Consider the first eight teams out of our field of 68 in our most recent Bracket Watch: Clemson, Georgetown, Butler, Furman, Belmont, Saint Mary’s, Dayton and Nebraska.
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Syracuse (18-10, NET: 44, SOS: 13, Q1: 3-6, Q2: 5-3, Q3+Q4 Losses: 1)
Syracuse stuck with North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, a loss after which it can hold its head high. The Orange still have a regular season meeting with Virginia on tap next week, and their other two games before the ACC tournament are both on the road against Wake Forest and Clemson. We’ll assume a win against the Demon Deacons, which are 10-16 overall and 3-11 in conference, but the Orange will likely be underdogs in the other two. If they lose both, they’ll go into the ACC tournament at 19-12 overall and 3-8 against Q1 teams. The shallowness of the bubble should keep them on the right side of the divide, but they cannot afford a bad loss without a meaningful win. That means they must beat Wake Forest and avoid a loss to a team off the at-large radar in the ACC tournament.
...
Other
We're hitting the road to find Central New York's best fish fry. We tallied all the nominations and named our four finalists. We made our third stop of the search Wednesday at Doug's Fish Fry in Skaneateles. Judging the Best of CNY fish fry are: Jacob Pucci and Charlie Miller from syracuse.com and longtime restaurateur Bob Corning.
As the judges visit each finalist, the public can vote on which restaurant the readers' choice award.
In the meantime, here's a look at our trip so far with a few details of our meals. Our full reviews will come when we announce the winners on Friday, March 1.
...
...
Doug's Fish Fry
Nowadays, Mark Edwards runs the show at Doug's. One of the many plaques and framed newspaper clippings that line the restaurant's walls tell the story of how Edwards showed up at Doug's on opening day in 1982 and asked for an order of fries and a job application.
Edwards said the restaurant uses scrod, a classification of young whitefish, such as cod or haddock. When we visited on Wednesday, it was haddock. The fresh fish arrives from a Boston-based supplier five times a week. The fish is trimmed in-house, breaded, fried in soybean oil and served skinless atop a seeded bun that covers maybe a third of the almost comically-large fillet.
A fish dinner at Doug's comes with either French fries ($11.50) or onion rings ($12.50). While the fries, freshly cut in-house, are good, the onions rings are the star. Cut from whole onions and served in a heaping mountain on the paper plate, these onions rings are crunchy and particularly good when dipped in the honey curry dipping sauce, one of four condiments Doug's makes.
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