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JB on Non-Conference Gauntlet: 'This Scheduling Thing is My Fault' (PS; Waters)
Syracuse is in the middle of its toughest four-game stretch in the past 20 years. And Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is taking the blame.
After beating Connecticut and Texas A&M on consecutive days last week in the Battle 4 Atlantis, the Orange returned to the Carrier Dome court on Wednesday to take on Wisconsin. Syracuse suffered a 66-58 overtime loss to the Badgers. Next up for Syracuse is a date with arch-rival Georgetown on Saturday at the Verizon Center.
"This whole scheduling thing is my fault,'' Boeheim said after the loss to Wisconsin. "You cannot go to a tournament like we did and come home and play Wisconsin and go play Georgetown. I put the players in a terrible position. We just have to play our way through it, but it was horrific scheduling. That's my fault.''
In terms of facing opponents from a major basketball conference, Syracuse's four-game non-conference gauntlet has been matched only once over the past 20 years.
Two years ago, Syracuse faced Minnesota, California and Baylor in the Maui Invitational before returning home to play Indiana in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Of those four teams, however, only Baylor was ranked. The Bears were No. 18 at the time.
UConn and Texas A&M were both ranked when Syracuse defeated them in the Bahamas last week. UConn was No. 18 and Texas A&M was at No. 25.
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JB Coaching Exhibition Game Against Peru in November of 1976
Bumping Up JB's Suspension May Not Be All Bad for Syracuse (thejuice; Stechschulte)
Just when you thought the NCAA could not have butchered something else, they have compounded an error in classic style. While there is no point in rehashing the entire case of NCAA v. Syracuse and Jim Boeheim, today’s announcement that Boeheim’s nine-game suspension will stand, only it can go into effect now instead of waiting for ACC play, shows that the board running intercollegiate athletics is much more running like a chicken with its head cut off.
Boeheim’s response that they were going to use the upcoming stretch of games to prepare the staff and team for his upcoming suspension, but now cannot, shows the NCAA’s same lack of proper planning Boeheim himself was trying to implement for his program.
Jay Bilas rips the NCAA for a punishment requiring Boeheim to stay away from his team for a month for “failing to maintain institutional control” because the proper punishment for you not adequately supervising your team is to not let you supervise them at all. Sounds like control to me.
Simply put, the long-and-drawn out process that took years to originally make a decision, then months to decide on parts of an appeal and weeks more to decide another portion of the appeal shows that the NCAA is so obviously wrong, it’s a miracle they can actually schedule NCAA Tournament sites a week in advance, much less several years.
Oh, wait, the NCAA makes money off that. Never mind.
Let’s shift gears and move to something even more pressing to the Orange fan base.
How does this terrible timing affect the team on the court?
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Can the Orange Find More Depth? (TNIAAM; Neuman!)
Early this year, it looked like Syracuse could go at least eight deep. Now, Jim Boeheim is basically only playing six. Will he expand the rotation? And if so, will it make a difference?
When the Syracuse basketball team rolled the ball out for the start of the 2015-16 season, it looked like it could be one of the deeper teams head coach Jim Boeheim has had in recent years. Boeheim had his starting lineup and then players such as Tyler Lydon, Kaleb Joseph, Frank Howard and sometimes Chino Obokoh getting minutes off the bench.
However, now we are barely a month into the season and recent games against high-level opponents have seen Boeheim shrink his rotation to six players.
In the last three games, Boeheim has relied on the lineup consisting of Lydon, Michael Gbinije, Trevor Cooney, Tyler Roberson and Malachi Richardson. Joseph saw the floor for four minutes in each of the last two games, and nominal starter DaJuan Coleman was relegated to backup duty as well, getting 18 minutes against Texas A&M and just five against Wisconsin.
As Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated points out, Boeheim is at least aware of the problem he has:
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El Nino Es Muy Bien!
Forecast: Cold, Snow in Eastern US Will be 'Infrequent' Due to El Nino (PS; Coin)
The latest forecast from AccuWeather.com says winter in the central and eastern United States will be mild the rest of the year and into 2016.
"We see impressive signals that the overall mild pattern that got rolling in the Central and Eastern states during October and November will hold through December and into January," according to Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather's chief long range meteorologist, in the company's forecast issued today. "El Niño is contributing to a strong belt of westerly winds across Canada that will help keep the polar vortex strong but locked up near the Arctic Circle."
El Niño, the abnormally warm waters in the Pacific Ocean that can affect weather across North America, is particularly strong this year. NOAA says it might be among the three strongest El Niños since 1950.
Pastelok told Syracuse.com earlier this week that December temperatures in Central New York will likely run 3 to 6 degrees above normal. The Climate Prediction Center says there's an 80 percent chance that December will be warmer than normal in the Northeast. And the odds of a white Christmas are falling.
That doesn't mean the next month or so will be completely free of snow, AccuWeather said, but that "cold and snowy days will be infrequent." And late winter could spell the return of "cold weather and a big East Coast snowstorm or two during the latter part of winter and into March."
