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Syracuse Looks to Improve on Poor Offensive Performances From Bench in Matchup with Boston College (DO; Klinger)
Only four Syracuse players scored from the field against Clemson, a game in which Jim Boeheim sparingly turned to his two-deep bench.
It became easy to see why.
“Look at the stat sheet,” Boeheim said after the game.
Neither of his subs, Ron Patterson and B.J. Johnson, had scored. They tried with nine shots in their 13 minutes, but none of them went in. The game against Clemson was a particularly bad shooting performance for the entire team, but a lack of bench scoring is hardly a new problem.
SU has just 14 bench points in its last four games for an average of 3.5 points per game. It’s something Syracuse (13-5, 4-1 Atlantic Coast) will look to improve on as it moves deeper into its conference schedule at home against Boston College (8-8, 0-4) on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
In the past several years, Boeheim has tended not to use his bench very much. Since the 2006–07 season, SU has only ranked higher than 259th in the country in percentage of minutes played by its bench once, according to KenPom.com.
The Orange was 94th in the nation in bench minutes in 2011–12, when C.J. Fair, James Southerland, Michael-Carter Williams, Baye Moussa Keita came off the bench with Dion Waiters, who was taken fourth overall in that year’s NBA Draft.
It’s worth noting that SU has won 235 games since 2006. This issue isn’t minutes so much as points. Kaleb Joseph’s 12-point performance against Clemson was a bright spot in an ugly game for Syracuse. It was also a necessity.
“He has to really continue to do that because we’re getting no scoring out of Ronnie (Patterson) at all,” Boeheim said after the game. “He can’t make a shot. And we’ve got to get something going.”
Chris McCullough being out for the year is part of the problem. But his injury really just exacerbated a fundamental issue with this Syracuse team’s roster.
There is no dependable scoring option on the SU bench.
“McCullough’s a very good player. We miss him,” Boeheim said. “Earlier in the year he averaged 14, but he still averaged 10 points, seven rebounds a game for the year and you can’t replace that. We can’t … but there’s nothing we can do about that.”
Patterson shoots 23.4 percent from the field and has failed to consistently stretch the floor, shooting 17.1 percent from 3.
Johnson hadn’t appeared in conference play until McCullough was ruled out for the season. He’s shot 0-for-4 in nine minutes since and shoots 29.2 percent from the field overall.
Boeheim said he wasn’t concerned with bench scoring, instead looking to his team’s overall play. This team’s issues are more about scoring overall. It just shows worst at the bottom of the lineup.
“I don’t know if that makes it any harder or not,” Cooney said. “The bottom line is you just have to make shots.”
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Interesting Week to Watch How Syracuse Bounces Back (sujuiceonline.com; Bierman)
Item: Longtime nemesis Boston College and road-tested Miami at the Carrier Dome, and a first-ever meeting against North Carolina in its Dean Dome on the next edition of Big Monday, provides quite an agenda over the next week that will continue to tell us more about the direction this year’s ‘Cuse team takes, in what’s already an unusual, lack-of-experienced-roster-depth season.
Ever have one those overnights when restlessly awake for whatever reason you notice the time on the nearest device reads a ghastly 3:23 a.m., and instead of taking some sort of pill you start thinking of things you enjoy in life to hopefully help put you in a relaxed frame of mind to return to sleep?
You know something like Syracuse basketball, and the recent unparalleled run of success the program has savored spoiling Orange Nation and coinciding with the Melo Center’s opening in September 2009. Add the ‘what if’ thoughts that had undergraduate NBA draftees Tyler Ennis and Jerami Grant returned to school, and DaJuan Coleman/Chris McCullough not been lost for the bulk of the season with an injury, plus the unforeseen, startling development of current ACC Player of the Week Rakeem Christmas turning into a first team all-conference performer, and sweet thoughts develop of how indeed the Orange (13-5, 4-1) would be challenging Virginia and Duke for conference supremacy and a Top 5 national ranking.
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Center Clifford Tops BC in Rebounding After Missing Time Last Season with Knee Injury (DO; Sullivan)
Dennis Clifford celebrated with his Boston College teammates after they ended Syracuse’s magical 25-0 start, but he was conflicted.
The 7-foot-1 center felt elated to beat the then-No. 1 team in the country on its home court, but was also disappointed to not be a part of the historic win because of his injured left knee.
“Obviously I was happy that we won. It was incredible,” Clifford said. “But when you feel like you could make a team better and contribute, it’s hard.”
A healthy Clifford and BC (8-8, 0-4 Atlantic Coast) return to Syracuse (13-5, 4-1) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. for the team’s first matchup since that upset. After missing all but two games last season and playing hurt for his sophomore season, Clifford has returned to the Boston College lineup this season. He’s making an immediate difference in the Eagles frontcourt.
Against SU, he’ll likely be tasked with guarding the Orange big man, Rakeem Christmas, who was named ACC Player of the Week on Monday.
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Christmas Mocks Wooden Award List with ACC Dominance (DO; Dougherty)
Rakeem Christmas blocks out all of the outside stuff.
The Associated Press Top 25 polls, weekly awards, power rankings, watch lists. That stuff.
But as Christmas dominated Clemson in a 13-point Syracuse loss on Saturday, it was hard for the rest of us not to think about the John R. Wooden Award midseason watch list that was released last Wednesday.
Twenty-five players were named candidates for college basketball’s most prestigious individual award. Christmas wasn’t one of them — his 18.3 points and nine rebounds per game weren’t quite good enough.
“The team isn’t rated. If we were in the Top 10 he’d be getting a lot of attention,” head coach Jim Boeheim said after SU beat Wake Forest on Tuesday, the night before the watch list was released.
“It’s that simple, the same thing every year.”
Yet it’s not like Christmas and the Orange (13-5, 4-1 Atlantic Coast) are playing a mid-major schedule. The ACC is arguably the nation’s best conference and Christmas is getting harder and harder to ignore. And while a mid-year watch list doesn’t earn any team or player an edge on the scoreboard or in the standings, the omission of Christmas — who was named the ACC’s player of the week Monday for the second time this season — from the Wooden watch list is ludicrous.
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College Basketball Lines Betting Preview: BC at Syracuse (bodog.eu)
The Boston College Eagles and the Syracuse Orange will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Carrier Dome.
Odds aren't yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total.
Syracuse was a 66-53 loser in their most recent outing on the road against Clemson. They failed to cover the -1.5-point spread as favorites.
Last time out for Boston College, they were a 66-51 loser as they battled Virginia at home. They failed to cover in the match as a +12.5-point underdog.
Boston College:
Team record: 8-8 SU,7-5 ATS
Boston College is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
Boston College is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
Boston College is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Boston College is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Syracuse
Syracuse:
Team record: 13-5 SU,7-9 ATS
Syracuse is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games
Syracuse is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
Syracuse is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Syracuse is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Boston College
Next up:
Boston College at Georgia Tech Sunday, January 25
Syracuse home to Miami Saturday, January 24
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ACC News
ACC Night in Review: Duke Defeats Pitt as Coach K Earns Win # 999, Clemson Comes Back to Earth From Syracuse Game (PS; Stevens)
Duke never trailed against Pittsburgh.
Clemson's shooting reverted to form against Florida State.
That, plus a look at Tuesday's game, in the ACC night in review.
NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Tyus Jones, Duke
The freshman guard had 22 points in Duke's 79-65 victory over Pittsburgh, a triumph that brought the Blue Devils (16-2, 4-2 ACC) one step closer to a major milestone for coach Mike Krzyzewski.
It's the latest development in an up-and-down month for Jones, whose sometimes-brilliant, sometimes-blah play has mirrored Duke's unevenness since the start of league play. But with back-to-back victories over Louisville and Pittsburgh, the Blue Devils appear to have steadied themselves.
Up next is a visit to St. John's on Sunday, which is Duke's first opportunity to earn Coach K his 1000th career victory.
NIGHT TO FORGET
Clemson
The Tigers shot 45 percent overall and were 8 of 20 from 3-point range in Saturday's defeat of Syracuse. Monday, Clemson slipped to 34 percent from the floor and 5 of 19 from the outside in a 59-55 loss to Florida State.
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Syracuse Looks to Improve on Poor Offensive Performances From Bench in Matchup with Boston College (DO; Klinger)
Only four Syracuse players scored from the field against Clemson, a game in which Jim Boeheim sparingly turned to his two-deep bench.
It became easy to see why.
“Look at the stat sheet,” Boeheim said after the game.
Neither of his subs, Ron Patterson and B.J. Johnson, had scored. They tried with nine shots in their 13 minutes, but none of them went in. The game against Clemson was a particularly bad shooting performance for the entire team, but a lack of bench scoring is hardly a new problem.
SU has just 14 bench points in its last four games for an average of 3.5 points per game. It’s something Syracuse (13-5, 4-1 Atlantic Coast) will look to improve on as it moves deeper into its conference schedule at home against Boston College (8-8, 0-4) on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
In the past several years, Boeheim has tended not to use his bench very much. Since the 2006–07 season, SU has only ranked higher than 259th in the country in percentage of minutes played by its bench once, according to KenPom.com.
The Orange was 94th in the nation in bench minutes in 2011–12, when C.J. Fair, James Southerland, Michael-Carter Williams, Baye Moussa Keita came off the bench with Dion Waiters, who was taken fourth overall in that year’s NBA Draft.
It’s worth noting that SU has won 235 games since 2006. This issue isn’t minutes so much as points. Kaleb Joseph’s 12-point performance against Clemson was a bright spot in an ugly game for Syracuse. It was also a necessity.
“He has to really continue to do that because we’re getting no scoring out of Ronnie (Patterson) at all,” Boeheim said after the game. “He can’t make a shot. And we’ve got to get something going.”
Chris McCullough being out for the year is part of the problem. But his injury really just exacerbated a fundamental issue with this Syracuse team’s roster.
There is no dependable scoring option on the SU bench.
“McCullough’s a very good player. We miss him,” Boeheim said. “Earlier in the year he averaged 14, but he still averaged 10 points, seven rebounds a game for the year and you can’t replace that. We can’t … but there’s nothing we can do about that.”
Patterson shoots 23.4 percent from the field and has failed to consistently stretch the floor, shooting 17.1 percent from 3.
Johnson hadn’t appeared in conference play until McCullough was ruled out for the season. He’s shot 0-for-4 in nine minutes since and shoots 29.2 percent from the field overall.
Boeheim said he wasn’t concerned with bench scoring, instead looking to his team’s overall play. This team’s issues are more about scoring overall. It just shows worst at the bottom of the lineup.
“I don’t know if that makes it any harder or not,” Cooney said. “The bottom line is you just have to make shots.”
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Interesting Week to Watch How Syracuse Bounces Back (sujuiceonline.com; Bierman)
Item: Longtime nemesis Boston College and road-tested Miami at the Carrier Dome, and a first-ever meeting against North Carolina in its Dean Dome on the next edition of Big Monday, provides quite an agenda over the next week that will continue to tell us more about the direction this year’s ‘Cuse team takes, in what’s already an unusual, lack-of-experienced-roster-depth season.
Ever have one those overnights when restlessly awake for whatever reason you notice the time on the nearest device reads a ghastly 3:23 a.m., and instead of taking some sort of pill you start thinking of things you enjoy in life to hopefully help put you in a relaxed frame of mind to return to sleep?
You know something like Syracuse basketball, and the recent unparalleled run of success the program has savored spoiling Orange Nation and coinciding with the Melo Center’s opening in September 2009. Add the ‘what if’ thoughts that had undergraduate NBA draftees Tyler Ennis and Jerami Grant returned to school, and DaJuan Coleman/Chris McCullough not been lost for the bulk of the season with an injury, plus the unforeseen, startling development of current ACC Player of the Week Rakeem Christmas turning into a first team all-conference performer, and sweet thoughts develop of how indeed the Orange (13-5, 4-1) would be challenging Virginia and Duke for conference supremacy and a Top 5 national ranking.
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Center Clifford Tops BC in Rebounding After Missing Time Last Season with Knee Injury (DO; Sullivan)
Dennis Clifford celebrated with his Boston College teammates after they ended Syracuse’s magical 25-0 start, but he was conflicted.
The 7-foot-1 center felt elated to beat the then-No. 1 team in the country on its home court, but was also disappointed to not be a part of the historic win because of his injured left knee.
“Obviously I was happy that we won. It was incredible,” Clifford said. “But when you feel like you could make a team better and contribute, it’s hard.”
A healthy Clifford and BC (8-8, 0-4 Atlantic Coast) return to Syracuse (13-5, 4-1) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. for the team’s first matchup since that upset. After missing all but two games last season and playing hurt for his sophomore season, Clifford has returned to the Boston College lineup this season. He’s making an immediate difference in the Eagles frontcourt.
Against SU, he’ll likely be tasked with guarding the Orange big man, Rakeem Christmas, who was named ACC Player of the Week on Monday.
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Christmas Mocks Wooden Award List with ACC Dominance (DO; Dougherty)
Rakeem Christmas blocks out all of the outside stuff.
The Associated Press Top 25 polls, weekly awards, power rankings, watch lists. That stuff.
But as Christmas dominated Clemson in a 13-point Syracuse loss on Saturday, it was hard for the rest of us not to think about the John R. Wooden Award midseason watch list that was released last Wednesday.
Twenty-five players were named candidates for college basketball’s most prestigious individual award. Christmas wasn’t one of them — his 18.3 points and nine rebounds per game weren’t quite good enough.
“The team isn’t rated. If we were in the Top 10 he’d be getting a lot of attention,” head coach Jim Boeheim said after SU beat Wake Forest on Tuesday, the night before the watch list was released.
“It’s that simple, the same thing every year.”
Yet it’s not like Christmas and the Orange (13-5, 4-1 Atlantic Coast) are playing a mid-major schedule. The ACC is arguably the nation’s best conference and Christmas is getting harder and harder to ignore. And while a mid-year watch list doesn’t earn any team or player an edge on the scoreboard or in the standings, the omission of Christmas — who was named the ACC’s player of the week Monday for the second time this season — from the Wooden watch list is ludicrous.
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College Basketball Lines Betting Preview: BC at Syracuse (bodog.eu)
The Boston College Eagles and the Syracuse Orange will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Carrier Dome.
Odds aren't yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total.
Syracuse was a 66-53 loser in their most recent outing on the road against Clemson. They failed to cover the -1.5-point spread as favorites.
Last time out for Boston College, they were a 66-51 loser as they battled Virginia at home. They failed to cover in the match as a +12.5-point underdog.
Boston College:
Team record: 8-8 SU,7-5 ATS
Boston College is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
Boston College is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
Boston College is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Boston College is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Syracuse
Syracuse:
Team record: 13-5 SU,7-9 ATS
Syracuse is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games
Syracuse is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
Syracuse is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Syracuse is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Boston College
Next up:
Boston College at Georgia Tech Sunday, January 25
Syracuse home to Miami Saturday, January 24
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ACC News
ACC Night in Review: Duke Defeats Pitt as Coach K Earns Win # 999, Clemson Comes Back to Earth From Syracuse Game (PS; Stevens)
Duke never trailed against Pittsburgh.
Clemson's shooting reverted to form against Florida State.
That, plus a look at Tuesday's game, in the ACC night in review.
NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Tyus Jones, Duke
The freshman guard had 22 points in Duke's 79-65 victory over Pittsburgh, a triumph that brought the Blue Devils (16-2, 4-2 ACC) one step closer to a major milestone for coach Mike Krzyzewski.
It's the latest development in an up-and-down month for Jones, whose sometimes-brilliant, sometimes-blah play has mirrored Duke's unevenness since the start of league play. But with back-to-back victories over Louisville and Pittsburgh, the Blue Devils appear to have steadied themselves.
Up next is a visit to St. John's on Sunday, which is Duke's first opportunity to earn Coach K his 1000th career victory.
NIGHT TO FORGET
Clemson
The Tigers shot 45 percent overall and were 8 of 20 from 3-point range in Saturday's defeat of Syracuse. Monday, Clemson slipped to 34 percent from the floor and 5 of 19 from the outside in a 59-55 loss to Florida State.
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