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Pregame Primer: Syracuse Basketball hosting Iowa at the Dome (cnycentral.com; Tamurian)
Syracuse Men's Basketball plays Iowa tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the Dome, the game is televised on ESPN2.
Syracuse finds itself needing a win in the worst way after back to back losses at the Preseason NIT in Brooklyn
At 4-3, it's the worst record out of the gates for the Orange since the 1996-1997 season when they ended up in the postseason NIT.
Jim Boeheim said it best after the loss to Penn State saying this wasn't the best year for the Orange to start with such a challenging schedule, given that the team is still mostly inexperienced.
He also said the schedule is what it is and that's how the Orange has to approach its next three games against Iowa followed by road dates at Georgia Tech and Georgetown.
With Iowa up first let's take a look at the game with the Hawkeyes:
Orange Bigs have to step up vs. talented Garza
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Syracuse basketball opens as small favorite over Iowa at the Carrier Dome (PS; Burrows)
Syracuse basketball is a small favorite when the Iowa Hawkeyes visit the Carrier Dome on Tuesday night as part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
The Orange opened as a four-point favorite, according to Vegas Insider. The over/under is set at 145.5.
Syracuse (4-3) is off to its worst start through seven games since the 1996-97 season after dropping both games during the NIT Tip-Off last week. The Orange is in desperate need of a quality win if it hopes to build an NCAA Tournament resume before conference play begins.
Iowa (5-2) is coming off a loss to San Diego State in the championship game of the Las Vegas Invitational, but enters Tuesday as the best 3-point shooting team the Orange has faced this season.
The Hawkeyes love to run in transition and rely on center Luka Garza to do it all –– he’s leading the Big Ten in scoring while also near the top in rebounding and 3-point shooting.
Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.
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2019 B1G/ACC Challenge - Day One (RX; HM)
2019 B1G/ACC Challenge - Day One
ACC/B1G Challenge, Day One
Miami 81
Illinois 79
Clemson 60
Minnesota 78
Challenge tied: 1-1
Schedule for Today:
7:00 PM on ESPNU - Northwestern @ Boston College
7:00 PM on ESPN2 - Iowa @ Syracuse
7:30 PM on ESPN - #4 Michigan @ #1 Louisville
9:00 PM on ESPN2 - #17 Florida St @ Indiana
9:00 PM on ESPNU - Rutgers @ Pitt
9:30 PM on ESPN - #10 Duke @ #11 Michigan State
Wednesday's schedule:
7:15 pm on ESPNU - Nebraska @ Georgia Tech
7:15 pm on ESPN2 - #5 Virginia @ Purdue
7:30 pm on ESPN - Notre Dame @ #3 Maryland
9:15 pm on ESPNU - Wake Forest @ Penn State
9:15 pm on ESPN2 - Wisconsin @ NC State
9:30 pm on ESPN - #6 Ohio State @ #7 UNC
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Orange Watch: Meeting Iowa is a rare occurrence for Syracuse basketball - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: Amidst a two-game losing streak and 4-3 record which is the worst opening seven game stretch for a Syracuse basketball team since the 1996-97 squad also started 4-3, next up is only the fourth all-time hoops meeting with Iowa (5-2) Tuesday evening in the Dome (7:00 p.m. ET / ESPN2) in the annual made-for-TV (partner ESPN ), ACC-Big Ten Challenge game. In fact, the ’96-’97 team went 5-4 in its first nine games on route to an eventual 19-13 season and disastrous first-round NIT home loss to Florida State. The possibility to match that slow start for this year’s young team is also something to keep in mind with first the challenge of securing a home win over the Hawkeyes to boost the Orange’s overall resume, followed by an early road conference game at Georgia Tech Saturday, where a win is needed to avoid an 0-2 ACC start.
When Iowa takes to the Dome court Tuesday night it will leave only four of the 14 Big Ten teams (Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern) who have never played inside the building during its 40 seasons (SU has never even played Nebraska in basketball).
It will also mark the first time either Syracuse or Iowa has hosted a game in the brief three game series that spans seven decades. Here’s a capsule look at the three previous meetings:
1957 – Buffalo
Much like today, in the 1950s regional neutral court college basketball tournaments were the rage right up until New Year’s Day to draw interest in a provincial sport, with SU regularly playing in Eastern cities New York, Philly, Boston, and the like. Early in the ’57-’58 season which followed the school’s first NCAA Tournament appearance, the Orangemen met Iowa in the Queen City Tournament in Buffalo’s old Memorial Auditorium (“The Aud”) two days after knocking off host Canisius.
Junior 6-7 big man Jon Cincebox was the star of the team averaging 19.1 ppg and 16.4 rpg, but against Iowa it was senior guard Larry Loudis and his hot shooting (19-points) that led coach Marc Guley’s team to the 58-52 win over the 20th ranked Hawkeyes.
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Georgetown loses two key players for the season, including starting point guard (PS; Carlson)
Less than two weeks before it hosts Syracuse, Georgetown University has announced that two key players won’t play the rest of the season.
On Monday, Georgetown announced that James Akinjo and Josh LeBlanc will not play again this year and will not be members of the team for the rest of the season. Multiple media reports indicated the two players have entered the NCAA’s transfer portal.
Akinjo was Georgetown’s starting point guard. The 6-foot sophomore had been averaging a team-best 4.4 assists, along with 13.4 points, the second-most points on the team behind center Omer Yurtseven.
Leblanc, a 6-foot-7 sophomore forward, was Georgetown’s first player off the bench and was averaging 7.2 points and shooting a team-best 59.3 percent.
Georgetown is 4-3 this season and has lost two consecutive games to Duke and UNC-Greensboro. The Hoyas are scheduled to host Syracuse on Dec. 14. The rivals have played the last four seasons. Syracuse has won two straight.
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Syracuse council closes tax loophole that allowed developers to save millions (PS; Knauss)
The Syracuse Common Council on Monday passed two measures intended to rein in a lucrative property tax exemption after reporting by syracuse.com showed that some developers saved millions using the tax break in ways never intended by lawmakers.
The council voted unanimously to amend local law by giving the assessor more explicit authority to reject applications for the so-called 485-a exemption, which the city first adopted in 2010. The amendment specifically aims to exclude projects that involve demolishing old buildings to make way for new construction.
The 485-a exemption was intended to subsidize the renovation of existing, under-used commercial buildings by converting them to a mix of residential and commercial space. Syracuse officials say the generous tax break has been a critical ingredient in the restoration of important downtown landmarks such as the State Tower Building and the Pike Block.
But the largest exemptions in Syracuse have gone to a different type of project: brand-new buildings that replaced older structures that were demolished. Four such buildings constructed since 2016 – all luxury student apartment buildings on University Hill -- save a total of roughly $4 million a year from 485-a exemptions.
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