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Syracuse vs Indiana Preview (SI; McCaulsky)
MATCHUP HISTORY
On Tuesday November 30th at 7 PM, the 3-3 Syracuse Orange will face the 6-0 Indiana Hoosiers at the Carrier Dome. The last time these two teams faced was December 3rd, 2013. The Orange won 69-52. The leading scorer for the Orange was Trevor Cooney who scored 21 points while future lottery pick Noah Vonleh led the Hoosiers with 17 points. At the time the Orange played its first season in the ACC and was ranked fourth in the AP Top 25.
The Orange has a 5-1 all-time record against the Hoosiers. The only loss to the Hoosiers took place in their first ever meeting during the 1987 National Championship Game in which Syracuse lost 74-73 on Keith Smart’s buzzer-beating shot.
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In their most recent game, the Orange lost to the Auburn Tigers 89-68. Buddy Boeheim, Cole Swider, and Jesse Edwards each led Syracuse in scoring with 17 points apiece while Auburn’s highly touted freshman Jabari Smith led all scorers with 22 points to go along with 6 rebounds and 4 assists. The Orange were outmatched from a physical standpoint, especially on the boards, losing the rebounding battle 38-28. They also had more than double the amount of turnovers as Auburn. The Orange had 15 while the Tigers only had 7. Overall, the Tigers asserted their dominance over the Orange and they played right into their hands.
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Video: Mike Woodson, IU players preview Syracuse (insidethehall.com; video; Staff)
Mike Woodson, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Race Thompson addressed the media in advance of Indiana’s matchup against Syracuse in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge.
Watch each press conference below:
What to expect: Syracuse (insidethehall.com; Bozich)
Indiana will hit the road for the first time this season when it takes on Syracuse in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge at the Carrier Dome on Tuesday.
The Orange are 3-3 and went 1-2 in the Battle 4 Atlantis last week. Tuesday’s game will tip at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
Indiana is 6-0, but the Hoosiers have yet to venture outside of Bloomington for a game. That changes this week with the Big Ten-ACC Challenge.
The Hoosiers are on the road for the second straight season in the challenge and will take on Syracuse, which is desperate for a win. The Orange already have a home loss to Colgate and dropped games in the Bahamas to VCU (67-55) and Auburn (89-68).
Indiana, meanwhile, has gained confidence early by playing an advantageous schedule. According to KenPom, the Hoosiers have played the 322nd most challenging slate in the country so far. Among Big Ten teams, only Iowa, Northwestern and Nebraska have played weaker schedules through the first three weeks of the season.
MEET THE ORANGE
Syracuse is led by senior wing Buddy Boeheim, who is averaging 20 points over the team’s first six games. A career 36.7 percent 3-point shooter, Boeheim is scuffling a bit from the perimeter early in his fourth season. He’s just 13-of-42 from distance (31 percent) and is shooting just 40.2 percent overall from the floor.Boeheim has been effective at getting to the line and owns a solid 40.2 percent free throw rate (FTA/FGA) thus far. He’s shooting 89.2 percent from the line in 37 attempts. As a team, Syracuse is one of the nation’s best free throw shooting teams at 78.6 percent.
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What I'm watching in IU basketball's first road test at Syracuse in ACC/Big Ten Challenge (idnystar.com; Dopirak)
Indiana leaves the confines of Assembly Hall for a game that counts Tuesday for the first time in the Mike Woodson era.
The Hoosiers' first road game in the 2021-22 season comes against an opponent with whom they have a historical connection. Syracuse, whom Indiana plays at 7 p.m. Tuesday night at the Carrier Dome in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game, was the Hoosiers' opponent the last time they won a national championship in 1987. However, the Orange were also the team that derailed the high hopes of the 2012-13 Indiana squad, which carried a No. 1 seed into the NCAA tournament but lost to Syracuse in the Sweet 16. The Orange have beaten the Hoosiers in every meeting since the 1987 NCAA title game, with the last win coming Dec. 3, 2013 when the teams last met in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Tuesday's game should be the toughest test to date for Indiana (6-0) even though Syracuse (3-3) has struggled with losses to Colgate, VCU and Auburn. Here are three things I'll be watching for.
Can Indiana execute — and shoot — against the zone?
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's 2-3 zone has carried him to 1,086 career wins, five Final Fours and the 2003 national championship. Simple as it may seem, it's caused opponents problems for years, and it famously swallowed up Indiana's 2013 squad, holding that extremely talented Hoosiers team to 50 points on 34% shooting.
This Syracuse squad doesn't appear to have the length or overall defensive talent the 2013 group or any of Boeheim's other best defenses did. The Orange currently rank 156th nationally in adjusted defensive efficiency according to KenPom.com, and 277th in effective field goal percentage defense. The 2012-13 Orange finished sixth and fifth nationally in those categories.
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IU basketball: Xavier Johnson has seen Syracuse plenty | TJD teases his parents for missing 43-point game (dailyhoosier.com; Schumann)
It wasn’t why they recruited Xavier Johnson out of the transfer portal, but Indiana knew that he’d add value against whoever they drew in the Big Ten / ACC Challenge this year.
The three-year starter at Pitt has seen all of the teams in the ACC extensively, but with the unique challenge that the vaunted Syracuse 2-3 zone presents, Johnson’s experience against the Orange is especially helpful to the Hoosiers.
Johnson has played in seven previous meetings against Tuesday evening’s foe, and he has taken an active role in letting his teammates know what to expect.
“Xavier has been stepping up in his leadership role,” junior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis said. “He’s been texting me throughout the day today (Monday) and yesterday telling me about opportunities against their zone and what they’re going to do. He’s really locked in and ready to take on this moment.”
In his seven previous appearances against the Orange, Johnson started six times and he has seen a total of 238 minutes against that zone, an average of 34 a game. Johnson averaged 12 points in those contests.As a facilitator Johnson seemed to grow as he faced Syracuse more often. In total he has averaged 5.9 assists in his seven previous meetings, and 6.3 over the last six. He committed 12 turnovers in three games vs. Syracuse as a freshman, but has averaged just 1.8 turnovers over the last four contests against the Orange.
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Syracuse Basketball’s Biggest Weakness… That The Whole Country Now Knows – Orange Fizz – Daily Syracuse Recruiting News & Team Coverage (orangefizz.net; May)
Raise your hand if you had Syracuse Men’s Basketball going 3-3 in the first six games! No one? Yeah, that’s about right. The Orange are severely underperforming right now for a plethora of reasons — losing the battle of the boards, turning the ball over too many times, not hitting shots.
All of those things are pretty common with SU over the past couple years though. This season, however, there is a new issue that is plaguing the Orange, which became apparent to the entire country during the Battle 4 Atlantis. Syracuse cannot break a full court press. Plain and simple.
It all began in the tournament opener versus VCU. The Rams pressed the Orange for the majority of the game, which led to 16 SU turnovers and 16 VCU points off of turnovers.
Then, in game number two against Arizona State, the Sun Devils were down by 13 with three and a half minutes left in the second half. ASU put on a press, completely flustering SU, and getting the deficit down to seven.
Auburn didn’t put on a traditional full court press in game three of the Battle 4 Atlantis, but once in a while they applied some pressure. Even at that point, after two straight games of dealing with a press, Syracuse still couldn’t handle it.
The entire tournament the Orange looked like deer in headlights when a press was thrown at them. Syracuse continually got trapped in the corners, made bad passes and dribbled into awaiting defenders. It looked like a JV team trying to break a press while scrimmaging the varsity team.
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Syracuse Basketball: 5-star Canadian target details teams in most contact (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball five-star target Elijah Fisher, an elite wing who hails from Canada, says that he may set up some campus visits in the near future.
While I’d love to see him take a trip to the Orange, a team that has done well recruiting Canadian prospects in recent years, I’m not super optimistic about where things stand between the ‘Cuse and Fisher, who is a consensus top-20 player in his class.
The 6-foot-7 Fisher, a junior at the Crestwood Preparatory College in Toronto, Ontario, said in a recent blog post he wrote for SI All-American that for now, the four squads reaching out to him the most are Oklahoma State, Alabama, Texas Tech and Florida State.
Obviously, there is no mention of the Orange here. That certainly doesn’t mean the ‘Cuse isn’t a contender in Fisher’s recruitment. However, if there remains mutual interest between him and Syracuse basketball, it sounds like Orange coaches have some work to do if they want to pick up this talented 2023 prospect.
Syracuse basketball faces stiff competition for five-star Elijah Fisher.
The four college teams noted by Fisher are all excellent. Alabama was a top-10 squad a season ago, and head coach Nate Oats and his assistants are doing extremely well on the recruiting trail of late.
Texas Tech was the runner-up to Virginia in the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Oklahoma State is a strong Big 12 Conference group.
Florida State, meanwhile, has proven one of the premier Atlantic Coast Conference units in recent stanzas, and the Seminoles excel in recruiting, too.
The Orange coaching staff got involved with Fisher relatively early on in his recruitment, offering him a scholarship in the summer of 2020. His other offers include from Kentucky, Kansas, 2021 national champion Baylor, Arizona, Florida, Oregon, Memphis, Seton Hall, West Virginia and Southern California.
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Joe Toussaint's big shot lifts Iowa basketball past Virginia in Big Ten/ACC thriller (hawkcentral.com; Leistikow)
The nation’s No. 1 scoring offense clashed Monday night against the nation’s No. 4 scoring defense in Charlottesville, Virginia.
As they say, something had to give.
The high-octane Iowa Hawkeyes set the aggressive pace in this one, rolling out to a first-half lead of 21 points before Virginia rallied all the way back to take the lead in the final minute. But a bank shot by point guard Joe Toussaint with 8.4 seconds left dropped home, lifting the Hawkeyes to a thrilling 75-74 win in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge at John Paul Jones Arena.
Virginia shot 63% in the second half, including a 7-for-9 showing from 3-point range, to storm back. But a leaner by Kihei Clark misfired, and Kadin Shedrick's putback as time expired was blocked by Patrick McCaffery.
The Hawkeyes had cleaned up against six weaker non-conference foes at home, but playing the program that won the 2019 NCAA title would be a challenge — even if the Cavaliers had been up-and-down during a 5-2 start.
Iowa star forward Keegan Murray exited the game with 8 minutes, 27 remaining after his twin brother, Kris, stepped on his right ankle. The nation’s leading scorer shuffled to the locker room but returned to the floor for the stretch run and finished with 18 points and nine rebounds.
Iowa entered the game averaging 97.2 points; Virginia entered allowing an average of 53.6 points. The Cavaliers (5-3) hadn't allowed more than 68 to any team this season.
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With her fiance, Andrea Nentwick started Ecubed Homes during the Covid lockdowns as a "fun" side project, building energy efficient homes out of old shipping containers for those seeking an "off-the-grid" lifestyle. Courtesy of Andrea NentwickCourtesy of Andrea Nentwick
House of the Week: Company builds transportable homes out of shipping containers for ‘off-the-grid’ lifestyle (PS; $; Croyle)
During the Covid-19 lockdown last year, Andrea Nentwick and her fiancé Lucas Eastman were looking for a project to do together.
“We had a lot of time on our hands,” she said. “We thought, ‘Let’s do something interesting.’”
She had a degree in graphic design, and he had a history with home construction. Both were fascinated by the idea of “small homes,” so they began tinkering with some old shipping containers.
They made a few camps “for fun,” and people told them that they had hit on a “cool idea.”
“They got a lot of positive responses from people,” Nentwick said.
Last summer, they decided to try something more adventurous.
Kirkville designers build efficient homes out of old shipping containers
With the aid of some family members, and their “very polite” Sheltie puppy, Nero, they converted a shipping container into a 400 square foot home.
“We went all out,” she said.
After a thorough cleaning, the container’s floor and a portion of its walls were removed.
Using recycled materials to lessen their environmental footprint, they built a wooden framework around it, extended the center of the container, from eight-feet to twelve-feet, and installed brand new windows, a metal roof, new flooring, and sliding glass doors.
The full kitchen has a full-size gas stove and oven, plenty of storage, a refrigerator, and concrete counters.
The tiled bathroom has a burnt-wood vanity, a light-up mirror which defogs automatically, and a shower unit with a bench, and whose shower head is powered by the running water so that a screen displays the water’s temperature.
The living space has a propane fireplace and a flatscreen television.
There is a not a bedroom, but a Murphy bed could be installed in the living room.
They finished their project, what she calls a ‘mod-fab” home in the mold of Frank Lloyd Wright’s modernist design, in September.
“It was a fantastic project to work on,” Nentwick admits. “It came out really well and we learned a lot.”
What began as a fun “side project,” is now a business, Ecubed Homes.
“Their work is done with homeowner independence and environmental efficiency in mind,” their website says. The homes can be integrated with solar panels, water collection systems, and other “off-the-grid” capabilities.
After working with a customer to design the home, they can be dropped off anywhere you want them.
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