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No recent Cali or Iggy awards; Mr Irrelevant
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BC Sports Editor Spews Hatred Towards JB (bcheights.com; Sullivan)
Dear Jim,
I truly hate to see it end this way. An empire of on-court action inexplicably built in one of the most miserably frigid areas of the country. (I recall my college visit to Syracuse University—it’s a lovely school, I’m just not one for snow. Well, at least not snow on April 1.) It was an unbelievable rise to greatness for you at Syracuse, even before your head coaching days when you assisted Roy Danforth in bringing the school into the national spotlight.
Since the 1976-77 season when you first grasped the helm, you’ve led the Orange to an NCAA or NIT berth in each season in which ’Cuse was eligible. With your recruiting, fighting spirit even in the face of prostate cancer in 2001, and revolutionary manipulation of the 2-3 zone defense, Coach Boeheim, you’ve transformed the desolate wasteland that constitutes the upper Empire State into a mecca for basketball.
Desolate wasteland? Upper Empire State? Seriously? Is your grandfather named Poliquin?
For as long as I can remember, Syracuse has marketed itself as “New York’s College Team,” strange considering a majority of the state’s population live near New York City, such as myself, where we are almost 100 miles closer to Conte Forum than to the Carrier Dome. Yet given the lack of choices in the state, it’s also really hard to argue that fact. Syracuse is the only team in the state that plays in a Power Five Conference and only one of three (Army and Buffalo) that plays Division-IA football. You gave me plenty of memories as a tyke, especially that National Championship in 2003, and fulfilled my burning desire for college sports when no other team could.
1) New York is a state. The marketing campaign refers to the state, genius.
2) It is 190 miles from Boston to NYC as the crow flies. It is 195 miles from Syracuse to NYC. If you go by road, it is 216 versus 246. Your inability to read a map or do any research is telling; you clearly are a BC student.
And now those memories are all forever marred by your actions and of those in your esteemed basketball program.
...
ACC News
NCAA Basketball: Who Will ACC Teams Play? (myfox8.com; CNN Wire)
Kentucky, Villanova, Wisconsin and Duke are the top-seeded teams going into this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament that opens this week.
The Kentucky Wildcats are in the Midwest Region, with the Villanova Wildcats in East Region, the Wisconsin Badgers in the West Region and the Duke Blue Devils in the South Region.
WVU and RMU Dancing, Pitt Heads to NIT (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com)
March Madness is officially here and only two local schools will participate in college basketball’s biggest tournament.
West Virginia University (23-9, 11-7 Big 12) received an at-large bid into the big dance and will play in the Midwest region.
Their tournament begins on Friday against No. 12 seed Buffalo in Columbus.
Should they advance
, they would face the winner of the No. 4 Maryland vs. No. 13 Valparaiso matchup.
The No. 1 seed in the bracket is the 34-0 Kentucky Wildcats. Kentucky is the overall No. 1 seed in the tournament.
The other local representative in the NCAA Tournament are the NEC Champion Robert Morris Colonials.
RMU (19-14, 12-6 NEC) beat St. Francis (Brooklyn) in Brooklyn, 66-63 to claim a spot in the tournament for the first time since 2010.
Their reward? A play-in game matchup against North Florida on Wednesday in Dayton at 6:40 p.m.
Should RMU advance, they would enter the tournament as a No. 16 seed in the South region. There, they would face the third overall number one seeded Duke Blue Devils on Friday.
The number one seeds in the NCAA Tournament are Kentucky, Villanova, Duke and Wisconsin.
As for the Pitt Panthers, they were left on the outside of the Big Dance with a 19-14 (8-10 ACC) record.
A rough patch down the stretch and an early exit in the ACC Tournament didn’t help their case.
However, Pitt will participate in the NIT Tournament.
They will host George Washington on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the first round of the NIT.
...
Canes Left Out of NCAA Tourney, Will Play in NIT Instead (sun-sentinel.com; Chirinos)
For more than a week, Hurricanes coach Jim Larrañaga has done his best to state his team’s case for a berth in the NCAA Tournament, focusing primarily on Miami’s performance on the road this season.
Though the Hurricanes were widely considered a bubble team entering the ACC Tournament last week in Greensboro, Miami had picked up regular-season wins at Florida, Duke, Syracuse and in the Gildan Charleston Classic.
But those victories weren’t enough to strengthen the Hurricanes’ resume.
On Sunday, Miami – hoping to earn its first NCAA Tournament berth since making a Sweet 16 run in 2013 – was left out of the field of 68. Though the Hurricanes (21-12) will still get to play in the postseason, they’ll do so in the National Invitation Tournament where they’ll be a No. 2 seed and will host N. C. Central at the BankUnited Center on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
“Our players were very hopeful that we would get into the NCAA Tournament, and I’m sure the players are disappointed that we did not, but I made it clear to them that if we were good enough and we won enough games we would have been in there,” said Larrañaga in a statement released by Miami. “We needed to win one or two more games to get into the field of 68. Now we are in the NIT and we play on Tuesday. We have very little time to prepare and very very little time to feel sorry for ourselves. We have got to get ourselves emotionally ready to play a great game on Tuesday night.”
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BC Sports Editor Spews Hatred Towards JB (bcheights.com; Sullivan)
Dear Jim,
I truly hate to see it end this way. An empire of on-court action inexplicably built in one of the most miserably frigid areas of the country. (I recall my college visit to Syracuse University—it’s a lovely school, I’m just not one for snow. Well, at least not snow on April 1.) It was an unbelievable rise to greatness for you at Syracuse, even before your head coaching days when you assisted Roy Danforth in bringing the school into the national spotlight.
Since the 1976-77 season when you first grasped the helm, you’ve led the Orange to an NCAA or NIT berth in each season in which ’Cuse was eligible. With your recruiting, fighting spirit even in the face of prostate cancer in 2001, and revolutionary manipulation of the 2-3 zone defense, Coach Boeheim, you’ve transformed the desolate wasteland that constitutes the upper Empire State into a mecca for basketball.
Desolate wasteland? Upper Empire State? Seriously? Is your grandfather named Poliquin?
For as long as I can remember, Syracuse has marketed itself as “New York’s College Team,” strange considering a majority of the state’s population live near New York City, such as myself, where we are almost 100 miles closer to Conte Forum than to the Carrier Dome. Yet given the lack of choices in the state, it’s also really hard to argue that fact. Syracuse is the only team in the state that plays in a Power Five Conference and only one of three (Army and Buffalo) that plays Division-IA football. You gave me plenty of memories as a tyke, especially that National Championship in 2003, and fulfilled my burning desire for college sports when no other team could.
1) New York is a state. The marketing campaign refers to the state, genius.
2) It is 190 miles from Boston to NYC as the crow flies. It is 195 miles from Syracuse to NYC. If you go by road, it is 216 versus 246. Your inability to read a map or do any research is telling; you clearly are a BC student.
And now those memories are all forever marred by your actions and of those in your esteemed basketball program.
...
ACC News
NCAA Basketball: Who Will ACC Teams Play? (myfox8.com; CNN Wire)
Kentucky, Villanova, Wisconsin and Duke are the top-seeded teams going into this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament that opens this week.
The Kentucky Wildcats are in the Midwest Region, with the Villanova Wildcats in East Region, the Wisconsin Badgers in the West Region and the Duke Blue Devils in the South Region.
WVU and RMU Dancing, Pitt Heads to NIT (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com)
March Madness is officially here and only two local schools will participate in college basketball’s biggest tournament.
West Virginia University (23-9, 11-7 Big 12) received an at-large bid into the big dance and will play in the Midwest region.
Their tournament begins on Friday against No. 12 seed Buffalo in Columbus.
Should they advance
, they would face the winner of the No. 4 Maryland vs. No. 13 Valparaiso matchup.The No. 1 seed in the bracket is the 34-0 Kentucky Wildcats. Kentucky is the overall No. 1 seed in the tournament.
The other local representative in the NCAA Tournament are the NEC Champion Robert Morris Colonials.
RMU (19-14, 12-6 NEC) beat St. Francis (Brooklyn) in Brooklyn, 66-63 to claim a spot in the tournament for the first time since 2010.
Their reward? A play-in game
matchup against North Florida on Wednesday in Dayton at 6:40 p.m.Should RMU advance, they would enter the tournament as a No. 16 seed in the South region. There, they would face the third overall number one seeded Duke Blue Devils on Friday.
The number one seeds in the NCAA Tournament are Kentucky, Villanova, Duke and Wisconsin.
As for the Pitt Panthers, they were left on the outside of the Big Dance with a 19-14 (8-10 ACC) record.
A rough patch down the stretch and an early exit in the ACC Tournament didn’t help
their case.However, Pitt will participate in the NIT Tournament.
They will host George Washington on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the first round of the NIT.
...
Canes Left Out of NCAA Tourney, Will Play in NIT Instead (sun-sentinel.com; Chirinos)
For more than a week, Hurricanes coach Jim Larrañaga has done his best to state his team’s case for a berth in the NCAA Tournament, focusing primarily on Miami’s performance on the road this season.
Though the Hurricanes were widely considered a bubble team entering the ACC Tournament last week in Greensboro, Miami had picked up regular-season wins at Florida, Duke, Syracuse and in the Gildan Charleston Classic.
But those victories weren’t enough to strengthen the Hurricanes’ resume.
On Sunday, Miami – hoping to earn its first NCAA Tournament berth since making a Sweet 16 run in 2013 – was left out of the field of 68. Though the Hurricanes (21-12) will still get to play in the postseason, they’ll do so in the National Invitation Tournament where they’ll be a No. 2 seed and will host N. C. Central at the BankUnited Center on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
“Our players were very hopeful that we would get into the NCAA Tournament, and I’m sure the players are disappointed that we did not, but I made it clear to them that if we were good enough and we won enough games we would have been in there,” said Larrañaga in a statement released by Miami. “We needed to win one or two more games to get into the field of 68. Now we are in the NIT and we play on Tuesday. We have very little time to prepare and very very little time to feel sorry for ourselves. We have got to get ourselves emotionally ready to play a great game on Tuesday night.”
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Seriously though, if the link had worked for me, was there more to the article where I presume to spewed hate resides? Thanks. I find this offensive, as it wouldnt even show up on the radar of the hate spewed here with word or deed. "Brothers and sisters, can I get a witness?" 
