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Jim Boeheim, Daryl Gross in Spin Mode (What Media is Saying About Yesterday's Announcements) (PS; Kramer)
Columnists across the country voiced their opinions about theseismic news Wednesday that men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim is retiring in three years and Daryl Gross is out as athletic director in the wake of NCAA sanctions.
Much of it speculated about how and why the decisions were really made:
Wednesday's news that Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim, 70, intends to retire in three years is surprising only because his tenure seemed destined to end like those of college coaching legends, such as Bobby Bowden, who are forced into awkward exits after the glory fades. The question of whether the three-year window was Boeheim's choice or the university's will be the biggest one answered at a Thursday morning press conference where Boeheim is expected to speak. But no matter the spin, this feels like the type of resolution where a bunch of academics sat around after an avalanche of bad publicity and said, "We have to do something."
— Pete Thamel, SI.com
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Notre Dame Tries to Ride Momentum Into NCAA Tournament (usatoday.com; Brady)
Get Mike Brey some eggnog.
The Notre Dame coach told a news conference Wednesday of the thrill he got seeing his Irish on the board for the men's NCAA basketball tournament.
"We weren't in it last year," Brey said. "When you miss Selection Sunday, it's like missing Christmas."
For hoops fans who see the tournament as a sort of Christmas in March, the first present under the tournament tree will be Notre Dame vs. Northeastern, a game that begins at 12:15 p.m. ET Thursday at the CONSOL Energy Center — first game of the Round of 64.
Brey is ebullient about the Irish and their chances as they enter with the mojo of the school's first conference tournament championship. They beat Duke and North Carolina on successive nights to win the Atlantic Coast Conference title. Those games were played before packed houses at night in Greensboro, N.C. Noon games on neutral courts tend to be a different matter.
"We were the night stalkers down there," Brey said. "You had to prepare, and our energy was great. I try to educate our guys, the building's going to be different at noon (Thursday). I don't think it will be a great atmosphere. … I don't want them to be shocked by that. We're going to have to provide our own energy."
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College Basketball is an Attraction. Is It Pretty? Well... (nytimes.com; Tracy)
A word of caution to those excited for the N.C.A.A. tournament: Prepare to be a bit disappointed.
The tournament, which begins in earnest Thursday, is still a three-week dopamine rush of buzzer-beaters and school pride. There is an overwhelming favorite (Kentucky), and inevitably a sleeper will emerge and put its university on the map with a stunning upset or a deep run. Millions of fans will fill out brackets, staking their pride — and probably a little something else — on out-predicting their friends and co-workers.
But in many ways, Division I men’s basketball has never been less appealing. Scoring is down, as teams averaged 67.6 points a game through February, according to the N.C.A.A. If that average holds through the end of the tournament, it will be the second-lowest number since 1952 and part of a trend in which scoring has fallen from a peak of 76.7 points in 1990-91.
RELATED COVERAGE
Risk Management: N.C.A.A. Bracket Conundrum: To Pick Kentucky or Not to Pick Kentucky? MARCH 18, 2015
The Case for Kentucky as College Basketball’s Greatest Defensive Team MARCH 16, 2015
Iowa State Doesn’t Take Its Heart-Pounding Comebacks Lightly MARCH 17, 2015
On College Basketball: N.C.A.A. Tournament 2015: Villanova, Duke and Wisconsin Join Kentucky as No. 1 Seeds MARCH 15, 2015
The game is also as slow as it has ever been. Teams are averaging fewer than 65 possessions per 40 minutes, according to the statistics site KenPom.com. That is easily the lowest since 2002, and probably the lowest since at least the 1940s.
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Women's Basketball: Syracuse and Nebraska Have Similar Paths to Success (journalstart.com; Grell)
Ask Quentin Hillsman about the key factor in maintaining a successful program, and the Syracuse women's basketball coach will give you a short and simple answer.
"Players," he says.
"The thing that we have is good players that play hard and buy into our culture," the ninth-year coach said Wednesday. "Our kids really buy into both of those things."
The Orange will play Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday in Columbia, South Carolina.
While the two programs are meeting for the first time, they mirror each other in terms of recent success.
Nebraska is playing in its fourth straight NCAA Tournament. For Syracuse, this year marks its third straight trip to The Dance.
The Huskers have won at least 20 games four straight seasons. The Orange (21-9) has accomplished that feat the past six seasons.
So, yes, Hillsman can relate to Nebraska's recent history.
"They're not a good program, they're a great program," Hillsman said of NU. "They have a standard that is very high."
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UB Men's Basketball Team Gets Loud Sendoff (wgrz.com)
The U.B. men's basketball team left for Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday afternoon in advance of their first-ever game on Friday in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
Photojournalist Dooley O'Rourke was there as fans game the team a loud send off.
Watch the story in the viewer above.
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Other
In Downtown Syracuse, 'Gorgeous' Facade Coming Back: Rite Aid Taking on Look of Old Woolworth's (PS; Kirst)
If you have reflections or memories about the old . W. Woolworth store in downtown Syracuse, you can share them with columnist Sean Kirst, or leave them here as a comment.
Patricia Calpeter thought the clock was a lost piece of her youth. Almost 60 years ago, she was a student in a work-study program at the old North Syracuse High School, and her teachers would let her out a little early so she could catch a bus to her job.
Calpeter was a clerk at .W. Woolworth's, a five-and-dime department store at South Salina and Fayette streets, in the heart of downtown Syracuse. Getting there on time was important, said Calpeter, now of Salina. The manager was Margaret Hampton, a woman whose name Calpeter recalls distinctly. While the clerks liked and respected her, Hampton was all business.
"You didn't want to test her," Calpeter said.
The teenager would jump off the bus near the old E.W. Edwards department store, and she'd hurry toward the front door of Woolworth's. It was easy to check to see if she'd made it on time: There was a big clock above the door, visible on nearby streets, a kind of centerpiece for warm memories from Calpeter's youth.
She's 75. She remembers when Woolworth's closed in the 1970s, part of the sweeping loss of retail in those years in the center of the city. Rite Aid took over the building. The drugstore chain blanketed the once-striking terra cotta facade with a drab brown metal wrap. It covered the clock and turned the structure into just another building.
...
Jim Boeheim, Daryl Gross in Spin Mode (What Media is Saying About Yesterday's Announcements) (PS; Kramer)
Columnists across the country voiced their opinions about theseismic news Wednesday that men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim is retiring in three years and Daryl Gross is out as athletic director in the wake of NCAA sanctions.
Much of it speculated about how and why the decisions were really made:
Wednesday's news that Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim, 70, intends to retire in three years is surprising only because his tenure seemed destined to end like those of college coaching legends, such as Bobby Bowden, who are forced into awkward exits after the glory fades. The question of whether the three-year window was Boeheim's choice or the university's will be the biggest one answered at a Thursday morning press conference where Boeheim is expected to speak. But no matter the spin, this feels like the type of resolution where a bunch of academics sat around after an avalanche of bad publicity and said, "We have to do something."
— Pete Thamel, SI.com
...
Notre Dame Tries to Ride Momentum Into NCAA Tournament (usatoday.com; Brady)
Get Mike Brey some eggnog.
The Notre Dame coach told a news conference Wednesday of the thrill he got seeing his Irish on the board for the men's NCAA basketball tournament.
"We weren't in it last year," Brey said. "When you miss Selection Sunday, it's like missing Christmas."
For hoops fans who see the tournament as a sort of Christmas in March, the first present under the tournament tree will be Notre Dame vs. Northeastern, a game that begins at 12:15 p.m. ET Thursday at the CONSOL Energy Center — first game of the Round of 64.
Brey is ebullient about the Irish and their chances as they enter with the mojo of the school's first conference tournament championship. They beat Duke and North Carolina on successive nights to win the Atlantic Coast Conference title. Those games were played before packed houses at night in Greensboro, N.C. Noon games on neutral courts tend to be a different matter.
"We were the night stalkers down there," Brey said. "You had to prepare, and our energy was great. I try to educate our guys, the building's going to be different at noon (Thursday). I don't think it will be a great atmosphere. … I don't want them to be shocked by that. We're going to have to provide our own energy."
...
College Basketball is an Attraction. Is It Pretty? Well... (nytimes.com; Tracy)
A word of caution to those excited for the N.C.A.A. tournament: Prepare to be a bit disappointed.
The tournament, which begins in earnest Thursday, is still a three-week dopamine rush of buzzer-beaters and school pride. There is an overwhelming favorite (Kentucky), and inevitably a sleeper will emerge and put its university on the map with a stunning upset or a deep run. Millions of fans will fill out brackets, staking their pride — and probably a little something else — on out-predicting their friends and co-workers.
But in many ways, Division I men’s basketball has never been less appealing. Scoring is down, as teams averaged 67.6 points a game through February, according to the N.C.A.A. If that average holds through the end of the tournament, it will be the second-lowest number since 1952 and part of a trend in which scoring has fallen from a peak of 76.7 points in 1990-91.
RELATED COVERAGE
Risk Management: N.C.A.A. Bracket Conundrum: To Pick Kentucky or Not to Pick Kentucky? MARCH 18, 2015
The Case for Kentucky as College Basketball’s Greatest Defensive Team MARCH 16, 2015
Iowa State Doesn’t Take Its Heart-Pounding Comebacks Lightly MARCH 17, 2015
On College Basketball: N.C.A.A. Tournament 2015: Villanova, Duke and Wisconsin Join Kentucky as No. 1 Seeds MARCH 15, 2015
The game is also as slow as it has ever been. Teams are averaging fewer than 65 possessions per 40 minutes, according to the statistics site KenPom.com. That is easily the lowest since 2002, and probably the lowest since at least the 1940s.
...
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/journalstar.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial//c0/fc0bd5d3-28f8-5e29-b743-b9ce5f6860d6/5509ee9c78acf.image.jpg
Women's Basketball: Syracuse and Nebraska Have Similar Paths to Success (journalstart.com; Grell)
Ask Quentin Hillsman about the key factor in maintaining a successful program, and the Syracuse women's basketball coach will give you a short and simple answer.
"Players," he says.
"The thing that we have is good players that play hard and buy into our culture," the ninth-year coach said Wednesday. "Our kids really buy into both of those things."
The Orange will play Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday in Columbia, South Carolina.
While the two programs are meeting for the first time, they mirror each other in terms of recent success.
Nebraska is playing in its fourth straight NCAA Tournament. For Syracuse, this year marks its third straight trip to The Dance.
The Huskers have won at least 20 games four straight seasons. The Orange (21-9) has accomplished that feat the past six seasons.
So, yes, Hillsman can relate to Nebraska's recent history.
"They're not a good program, they're a great program," Hillsman said of NU. "They have a standard that is very high."
...
UB Men's Basketball Team Gets Loud Sendoff (wgrz.com)
The U.B. men's basketball team left for Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday afternoon in advance of their first-ever game on Friday in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
Photojournalist Dooley O'Rourke was there as fans game the team a loud send off.
Watch the story in the viewer above.
...
Other
In Downtown Syracuse, 'Gorgeous' Facade Coming Back: Rite Aid Taking on Look of Old Woolworth's (PS; Kirst)
If you have reflections or memories about the old . W. Woolworth store in downtown Syracuse, you can share them with columnist Sean Kirst, or leave them here as a comment.
Patricia Calpeter thought the clock was a lost piece of her youth. Almost 60 years ago, she was a student in a work-study program at the old North Syracuse High School, and her teachers would let her out a little early so she could catch a bus to her job.
Calpeter was a clerk at .W. Woolworth's, a five-and-dime department store at South Salina and Fayette streets, in the heart of downtown Syracuse. Getting there on time was important, said Calpeter, now of Salina. The manager was Margaret Hampton, a woman whose name Calpeter recalls distinctly. While the clerks liked and respected her, Hampton was all business.
"You didn't want to test her," Calpeter said.
The teenager would jump off the bus near the old E.W. Edwards department store, and she'd hurry toward the front door of Woolworth's. It was easy to check to see if she'd made it on time: There was a big clock above the door, visible on nearby streets, a kind of centerpiece for warm memories from Calpeter's youth.
She's 75. She remembers when Woolworth's closed in the 1970s, part of the sweeping loss of retail in those years in the center of the city. Rite Aid took over the building. The drugstore chain blanketed the once-striking terra cotta facade with a drab brown metal wrap. It covered the clock and turned the structure into just another building.
...
