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Welcome to National Pie Day!
National Pie Day is a "day to maintain America's pie heritage, pass on the tradition of pie making and promote America's love affair with pie." It is a day to bake and eat pies, try new recipes, and give pies to others. Charlie Papazian, who later went on to found the Great American Beer Festival, started the day in 1975 in his classroom, while teaching in Boulder, Colorado. He chose his birthday, January 23, as the day of celebration. In 1986, the American Pie Council began sponsoring the day, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Crisco. National Pie Day is also celebrated on December 1, but it is unknown why this date was also chosen or who chose it.
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Maliq Brown registered double-digit points against Oakland and Monmouth in December.
Maliq Brown’s ‘glue guy’ role at Syracuse is the same one he had in high school (DO; Smith)
Tladi Conway noticed something when Syracuse played Virginia Tech on Jan. 11. Maliq Brown, one of Conway’s former players, was still doing the little things — the ones that every basketball team needs — that he did at Blue Ridge School in Virginia, where he won four state championships.
Conway watched Joe Girard III miss a jumper off the rim and the Hokies grab the rebound, but Brown poked the ball out and made a basket. “You’re still at Blue Ridge,” Conway thought to himself.
Syracuse won that game, 82-72. Brown recorded his first career double-double — 11 points and 12 rebounds — by doing the little things. He collected five offensive rebounds, notched two steals and still recorded double-digit points without the Orange running an offensive set for him.
“He’s playing the same role with Syracuse that he played at Blue Ridge,” said Conway, a Blue Ridge assistant. “He’s that four man that comes in and gives energy and rebounds the ball. He’s on the top of the press. He’s using his length to get steals to just disrupt things on defense.”
At SU, plays like that have helped Brown carve out a significant role for himself as a freshman. He started the season struggling to find minutes, but registered double-digit points against Oakland and Monmouth in December and played 36 minutes at Virginia in January. Since his double-double against Virginia Tech, Brown has averaged 25 minutes per game and had a career-high 18 points against Georgia Tech on Saturday. For Brown, though, there have been few adjustments since high school, and that’s because his role — as Conway said — hasn’t changed.
“It definitely feels the same,” Brown said. “I got used to it very quickly… just coming in here, still doing the same stuff in basically the same role.”
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Syracuse Orange forward Maliq Brown (1) throws it down against Georgia Tech at the McCamish Pavilion, Atlanta, GA, Saturday January 21, 2023. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Scott Schild
Steady Maliq Brown keeps scoring points, making plays for SU (PS; $; Ditota)
Syracuse players are not surprised by it.
What fans see on the basketball court from Maliq Brown is what they see in practice.
They say he makes deflections, grabs rebounds, gets steals on a daily basis. Quadir Copeland called him “a magnet for the ball.” Jesse Edwards has described Brown as “a beast” from the moment he arrived on campus last summer.
Justin Taylor, who has been friends with Brown since grade school, suggested that Syracuse coaches should recruit him.
He knows what Brown can do.
“That’s who he is,” Taylor said a couple weeks ago. “I’ve seen it since we were 12 years old and playing. I’m not shocked at all. As soon as the opportunity came, I knew he would take advantage of it.”
Brown, though, seems to sneak up on opponents.
They seem to rarely account for him. They don’t pay attention when he lurks behind guards and pokes the ball away or when he parks himself underneath the Orange basket and either tips in a missed shot or finishes a pass from one of his teammates.
On Saturday here against Georgia Tech, Brown played 31 minutes and 42 seconds. He scored 18 points on 8-of-9 shooting from the field. He made four steals and blocked a shot. He grabbed four rebounds.
“Maliq had a really good offensive game,” SU coach Jim Boeheim said. “I thought Joe and Judah really looked for him and he finished around the basket.”
No Syracuse players finish around the basket better than Maliq Brown.
He came into the game getting 96.6% of his shots at the rim, according to hoop-math.com. He was making a team-best 67.9% of those shots, a number that will improve after Saturday’s outing.
...
Syracuse prevails on the road against Georgia Tech (cbssports; video; Finneral)
247Sports' James Finneral breaks down Syracuse's 80-63 road win over Georgia Tech.
SU took care of Georgia Tech. Let’s see if Orange is ready for prime time (Axe recap) (PS; $; Axe)
The Syracuse University men’s basketball team took care of business against Georgia Tech, defeating the Yellow Jackets 80-63 on Saturday afternoon at the McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta.
Now let’s see what the Orange really has.
Syracuse improved to 13-7 (6-3 ACC) but is a tree falling in a forest with no one around in terms of its NCAA Tournament resume.
Syracuse is 1-5 in Quadrant 1 and 2 games, according to the NCAA NET Rankings.
Eight of Syracuse’s 11 remaining opponents fall into Quad 1 or Quad 2 territory, starting with North Carolina on Tuesday night at the JMA Wireless Dome.
Syracuse’s only quality win this season has come against Virginia Tech. The Orange has lost to all three ranked teams it has faced (Illinois, Virginia, Miami). Non-conference losses to Colgate, Bryant and St. John’s were serious setbacks.
Syracuse has no choice but to start stockpiling quality wins. The question is whether it is good enough to find consistency in needed areas to do so.
The advantages?
Jesse Edwards and Joe Girard are playing at an all-ACC level.
Judah Mintz is not only one of the best freshmen in the ACC, he’s arguably the best point guard in the entire league who rarely looks like a freshman.
...
Elite 2024 Forward Donnie Freeman Looking to Take Official Visit to Syracuse (SI; McAllister)
Elite class of 2024 forward Donnie Freeman cut his list to five in early December. Those five were Iowa, LSU, Maryland, Rutgers and Texas. However, on December 30th, he announce his recruitment remained wide open. Since that time, Syracuse has ramped up its pursuit, Freeman told All Syracuse.
"Syracuse has been very aggressive recruiting me," Freeman said. "We are discussing a date for an official visit."
Nothing has been set in stone, but Freeman said he and the Orange are looking at some time in February for that potential official visit.
"Excited for what the future holds and what they have in store," Freeman said.
Freeman is a 6-9 versatile forward who is a consensus top 50 recruit and is ranked in the top 40 by Rivals, On3 and ESPN. 247Sports is the outlier at 43rd in the 2024 class. Rivals has Freeman ranked the highest at 27. He stars for St. John's College High School in Washington (D.C.) for high school ball and Team Takeover for AAU ball.
SU's Billy Edelin and Gerry McNamara hug each other after easy win over Seton Hall at the Carrier Dome on Jan. 22, 2003. It was Edelin's debut at the Dome following a NCAA suspension.
Reliving 2003: Edelin makes long-awaited Dome debut as SU routs Seton Hall (PS; $; Croyle)
GOOD ENOUGH
BOEHEIM LESS THAN THRILLED WITH WIN OVER PIRATES
By Mike Waters Staff writer
With a performance that wasn’t quite what Jim Boeheim wanted, the Syracuse Orangemen got exactly what they needed with an 83-65 victory over Seton Hall Wednesday night at the Carrier Dome.
Coming off a 13-point loss to Pittsburgh last Saturday, Syracuse bounced back with a workmanlike performance to beat Seton Hall for the second time in two weeks.
“I don’t think we practiced well this week,” Boeheim said. “I don’t think we’re playing like we need to play in this league. I think we played just well enough to win tonight.”
So it wasn’t exactly like hearing Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones play the Carrier Dome. The Orangemen (12-2 overall, 3-1 in the Big East) still produced more than enough good things to overcome Seton Hall, which slipped to 7-8 for the season and 2-4 in the conference.
Syracuse held Seton Hall to 35.3 percent shooting from the field, including a 5-for-18 performance from 3-point range. In back-to-back wins over Georgetown and Miami prior to Wednesday’s game, the Pirates had made 18 out of 29 outside the 3-point line.
“It’s tough for us to be able to win against Syracuse if we don’t make shots,” Seton Hall coach Louis Orr said. “We have to make some perimeter shots.
...
Locked On ACC- Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast: NC State's Terquavion Smith Released From Hospital; Virginia Dominates Wake Forest On Road on Apple Podcasts (apple.com; podcast; Locked on the ACC)
NC State's Terquavion Smith injury changed the trajectory of the UNC game, but what did the foul trouble mean for the Pack? Why did UNC receive so many calls? How does Virginia stack against the field after their dominating performance against Wake Forest on the road?
Other
A couple inches of snow heading to Onondaga County, morning commute will be slippery (PS; Kirk)
Onondaga County will see a couple inches of snow starting Sunday evening, making the morning commute slippery, according to the National Weather Service.
A winter weather advisory has been issued for Onondaga, Seneca, northern Oneida and southern Cayuga counties by the National Weather Service.
Two to four inches will fall by 10 a.m. Monday morning, the weather service said. Temperatures will be in the upper 20s and lower 30s which will create a heavy, wet, snowfall, weather officials said.
Roads are expected to be slippery, especially during the morning commute, officials said.
National Pie Day is a "day to maintain America's pie heritage, pass on the tradition of pie making and promote America's love affair with pie." It is a day to bake and eat pies, try new recipes, and give pies to others. Charlie Papazian, who later went on to found the Great American Beer Festival, started the day in 1975 in his classroom, while teaching in Boulder, Colorado. He chose his birthday, January 23, as the day of celebration. In 1986, the American Pie Council began sponsoring the day, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Crisco. National Pie Day is also celebrated on December 1, but it is unknown why this date was also chosen or who chose it.
SU News
Maliq Brown registered double-digit points against Oakland and Monmouth in December.
Maliq Brown’s ‘glue guy’ role at Syracuse is the same one he had in high school (DO; Smith)
Tladi Conway noticed something when Syracuse played Virginia Tech on Jan. 11. Maliq Brown, one of Conway’s former players, was still doing the little things — the ones that every basketball team needs — that he did at Blue Ridge School in Virginia, where he won four state championships.
Conway watched Joe Girard III miss a jumper off the rim and the Hokies grab the rebound, but Brown poked the ball out and made a basket. “You’re still at Blue Ridge,” Conway thought to himself.
Syracuse won that game, 82-72. Brown recorded his first career double-double — 11 points and 12 rebounds — by doing the little things. He collected five offensive rebounds, notched two steals and still recorded double-digit points without the Orange running an offensive set for him.
“He’s playing the same role with Syracuse that he played at Blue Ridge,” said Conway, a Blue Ridge assistant. “He’s that four man that comes in and gives energy and rebounds the ball. He’s on the top of the press. He’s using his length to get steals to just disrupt things on defense.”
At SU, plays like that have helped Brown carve out a significant role for himself as a freshman. He started the season struggling to find minutes, but registered double-digit points against Oakland and Monmouth in December and played 36 minutes at Virginia in January. Since his double-double against Virginia Tech, Brown has averaged 25 minutes per game and had a career-high 18 points against Georgia Tech on Saturday. For Brown, though, there have been few adjustments since high school, and that’s because his role — as Conway said — hasn’t changed.
“It definitely feels the same,” Brown said. “I got used to it very quickly… just coming in here, still doing the same stuff in basically the same role.”
...
Syracuse Orange forward Maliq Brown (1) throws it down against Georgia Tech at the McCamish Pavilion, Atlanta, GA, Saturday January 21, 2023. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com Scott Schild
Steady Maliq Brown keeps scoring points, making plays for SU (PS; $; Ditota)
Syracuse players are not surprised by it.
What fans see on the basketball court from Maliq Brown is what they see in practice.
They say he makes deflections, grabs rebounds, gets steals on a daily basis. Quadir Copeland called him “a magnet for the ball.” Jesse Edwards has described Brown as “a beast” from the moment he arrived on campus last summer.
Justin Taylor, who has been friends with Brown since grade school, suggested that Syracuse coaches should recruit him.
He knows what Brown can do.
“That’s who he is,” Taylor said a couple weeks ago. “I’ve seen it since we were 12 years old and playing. I’m not shocked at all. As soon as the opportunity came, I knew he would take advantage of it.”
Brown, though, seems to sneak up on opponents.
They seem to rarely account for him. They don’t pay attention when he lurks behind guards and pokes the ball away or when he parks himself underneath the Orange basket and either tips in a missed shot or finishes a pass from one of his teammates.
On Saturday here against Georgia Tech, Brown played 31 minutes and 42 seconds. He scored 18 points on 8-of-9 shooting from the field. He made four steals and blocked a shot. He grabbed four rebounds.
“Maliq had a really good offensive game,” SU coach Jim Boeheim said. “I thought Joe and Judah really looked for him and he finished around the basket.”
No Syracuse players finish around the basket better than Maliq Brown.
He came into the game getting 96.6% of his shots at the rim, according to hoop-math.com. He was making a team-best 67.9% of those shots, a number that will improve after Saturday’s outing.
...
Syracuse prevails on the road against Georgia Tech (cbssports; video; Finneral)
247Sports' James Finneral breaks down Syracuse's 80-63 road win over Georgia Tech.
SU took care of Georgia Tech. Let’s see if Orange is ready for prime time (Axe recap) (PS; $; Axe)
The Syracuse University men’s basketball team took care of business against Georgia Tech, defeating the Yellow Jackets 80-63 on Saturday afternoon at the McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta.
Now let’s see what the Orange really has.
Syracuse improved to 13-7 (6-3 ACC) but is a tree falling in a forest with no one around in terms of its NCAA Tournament resume.
Syracuse is 1-5 in Quadrant 1 and 2 games, according to the NCAA NET Rankings.
Eight of Syracuse’s 11 remaining opponents fall into Quad 1 or Quad 2 territory, starting with North Carolina on Tuesday night at the JMA Wireless Dome.
Syracuse’s only quality win this season has come against Virginia Tech. The Orange has lost to all three ranked teams it has faced (Illinois, Virginia, Miami). Non-conference losses to Colgate, Bryant and St. John’s were serious setbacks.
Syracuse has no choice but to start stockpiling quality wins. The question is whether it is good enough to find consistency in needed areas to do so.
The advantages?
Jesse Edwards and Joe Girard are playing at an all-ACC level.
Judah Mintz is not only one of the best freshmen in the ACC, he’s arguably the best point guard in the entire league who rarely looks like a freshman.
...
Elite 2024 Forward Donnie Freeman Looking to Take Official Visit to Syracuse (SI; McAllister)
Elite class of 2024 forward Donnie Freeman cut his list to five in early December. Those five were Iowa, LSU, Maryland, Rutgers and Texas. However, on December 30th, he announce his recruitment remained wide open. Since that time, Syracuse has ramped up its pursuit, Freeman told All Syracuse.
"Syracuse has been very aggressive recruiting me," Freeman said. "We are discussing a date for an official visit."
Nothing has been set in stone, but Freeman said he and the Orange are looking at some time in February for that potential official visit.
"Excited for what the future holds and what they have in store," Freeman said.
Freeman is a 6-9 versatile forward who is a consensus top 50 recruit and is ranked in the top 40 by Rivals, On3 and ESPN. 247Sports is the outlier at 43rd in the 2024 class. Rivals has Freeman ranked the highest at 27. He stars for St. John's College High School in Washington (D.C.) for high school ball and Team Takeover for AAU ball.
SU's Billy Edelin and Gerry McNamara hug each other after easy win over Seton Hall at the Carrier Dome on Jan. 22, 2003. It was Edelin's debut at the Dome following a NCAA suspension.
Reliving 2003: Edelin makes long-awaited Dome debut as SU routs Seton Hall (PS; $; Croyle)
GOOD ENOUGH
BOEHEIM LESS THAN THRILLED WITH WIN OVER PIRATES
By Mike Waters Staff writer
With a performance that wasn’t quite what Jim Boeheim wanted, the Syracuse Orangemen got exactly what they needed with an 83-65 victory over Seton Hall Wednesday night at the Carrier Dome.
Coming off a 13-point loss to Pittsburgh last Saturday, Syracuse bounced back with a workmanlike performance to beat Seton Hall for the second time in two weeks.
“I don’t think we practiced well this week,” Boeheim said. “I don’t think we’re playing like we need to play in this league. I think we played just well enough to win tonight.”
So it wasn’t exactly like hearing Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones play the Carrier Dome. The Orangemen (12-2 overall, 3-1 in the Big East) still produced more than enough good things to overcome Seton Hall, which slipped to 7-8 for the season and 2-4 in the conference.
Syracuse held Seton Hall to 35.3 percent shooting from the field, including a 5-for-18 performance from 3-point range. In back-to-back wins over Georgetown and Miami prior to Wednesday’s game, the Pirates had made 18 out of 29 outside the 3-point line.
“It’s tough for us to be able to win against Syracuse if we don’t make shots,” Seton Hall coach Louis Orr said. “We have to make some perimeter shots.
...
Locked On ACC- Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast: NC State's Terquavion Smith Released From Hospital; Virginia Dominates Wake Forest On Road on Apple Podcasts (apple.com; podcast; Locked on the ACC)
NC State's Terquavion Smith injury changed the trajectory of the UNC game, but what did the foul trouble mean for the Pack? Why did UNC receive so many calls? How does Virginia stack against the field after their dominating performance against Wake Forest on the road?
Other
A couple inches of snow heading to Onondaga County, morning commute will be slippery (PS; Kirk)
Onondaga County will see a couple inches of snow starting Sunday evening, making the morning commute slippery, according to the National Weather Service.
A winter weather advisory has been issued for Onondaga, Seneca, northern Oneida and southern Cayuga counties by the National Weather Service.
Two to four inches will fall by 10 a.m. Monday morning, the weather service said. Temperatures will be in the upper 20s and lower 30s which will create a heavy, wet, snowfall, weather officials said.
Roads are expected to be slippery, especially during the morning commute, officials said.
