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[Orangeyes]

Last time they played: Syracuse 95, California 73

Cramming for California, what to know about Syracuse-Cal

Q&A with Golden Bears beat writer Jonathan Kuperberg of The Daily ...

Syracuse and California: An Orange team that believes in the zone and a Golden Bears team that turned to it in a time of need

Syracuse gives initial reactions to Round of 32 opponent California

Quotes, Interviews
SU Practices in the HP Pavilion

Game Notes: Orange and Cal Clash in NCAA Third Round

Bears Ready for Round 3 vs. Syracuse

Poliquin: Syracuse's NCAA Tournament goal is to suffocate comer after comer, including Cal

Can Cal Men's Basketball Take Down Syracuse?

California guard Allen Crabbe, the Pac-12 POY, will test Syracuse's 2-3 zone

California guard, Pac-12 Player of the Year Crabbe presents difficult ...

Out of the national spotlight, California guard Crabbe quietly puts ...

NCAA Tournament: Cal's Allen Crabbe, Justin Cobbs draw praise ...

Syracuse must contend with tough California team, partisan crowd in ...

Cal ready for next big tournament test today against Syracuse

California Golden Bears — Syracuse basketball scouting report

California challenges Syracuse in East Regional contest

Purdy: Cal Bears playing for bigger stakes than you know

Syracuse vs. California point spread and pick – NCAA Tournament ...

Boeheim says he's sticking around

Boeheim Still Defiant, Whether or Not End Is Near

Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim refutes retirement rumors ... again

NCAA tournament: Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim perseveres amid ...

Syracuse's Jim Boeheim and Cal coach Mike Montgomery are long-time friends

Scoop Jardine talks Syracuse basketball and Jim Boeheim

NCAA Tournament news conference with Syracuse, California (live updates)

No. 12 Ranked Cal to Face No. 4 Syracuse

Syracuse Vs. Cal NCAA Tournament 2013 Capsule Preview: Predict ...

Syracuse's zone will test Cal's shooters

California matchup promises zone-on-zone despite Montgomery's ...

California has shooters to go against Syracuse zone (Orange ...

Poliquin: The Syracuse basketball team knows that defense rules in today's college game

So how have Syracuse players occupied themselves this week? Hint: it involves basketball

Photos

Day Two PC...17 PS Photos

Recruiting

John Calipari Watched 5-Star New York Guard Isaiah Whitehead Friday

Videos

The Best Play Thus Far Of The NCAA Tournament

This Was Sweet Too

1958 NCAA Championships. Seattle w/ Elgin Baylor vs. Kentucky. Old School

The Lead with Mike Waters: Interview Day at the NCAA's

Syracuse Orange Basketball 2012-2013: NCAA Press Conference ...

Poliquin: Welcome to the West Coast version of 'Bud & The Manchild'

California vs Syracuse - NCAA Basketball Betting Picks

Videos From Yesterday Repaired

Barack-Etology: Segment 2

1987 Syracuse vs Providence Basketball Semifinals Intros Final Four Rick Pitino

All 3 of his upset specials wet the bed
One more time: Seth Davis Picks @ 4:17 Montana Over Syracuse

Syracuse Cruises Past Montana

Brent Axe on NCAA investigation

Disgusting, don't watch if you are having a meal

Gambling Site

Syracuse Orange Vs. California Golden Bears: 3/23/13 Ryan's Free ...

Last Opponent

Grizzlies just didn't have it against Orange

ANALYSIS: 2013 Montana men should be remembered for strong ...

March Madness: Montana v. Syracuse

NCAA Tournament: Will Cherry reflects on his Montana career

Syracuse Orange roll in NCAA Tourney opener

NCAA March Madness Second Round Syracuse trounces Montana

Former Player

Melo scores 37 as Knicks clinch playoff spot

Wes has 7 as Suns are slaughtered

Big East

No. 15 Fla. Gulf Coast stuns Hoyas

UNC defeats Nova for Williams' 700th

NCAA's

Knowing The Way Through San Jose, Part 1

Early-Round Routs Predict Little

Heard in the Herd

NCAA Tournament 2013: Friday's top individual performances

NCAA Tournament 2013: Rating the early Cinderella contenders

Blogs

Jim Boeheim Tells Dan Patrick This Will NOT Be His Last Year

Syracuse Fans Have Themselves Quite A Little Saturday Planned

NCAA Tournament 2013: 5 Things To Like From Syracuse 2nd ...

California MBB vs. Syracuse: What Does Syracuse Think? An Orange Q & A

NCAA Tournament 2013: Best Team Performances from Thursday's ...

No. 4 Syracuse vs. No. 12 California : March Madness Preview

Syracuse vs. Cal: Orange Questions, Golden Answers

SU Women's Hoops

Game Notes: Orange & Jays Meet at 11:20 a.m., ESPN2

SU Participates in NCAA Media Day

Q&A with Syracuse women's basketball star Kayla Alexander

Bluejays eager to atone for 2012 heartbreak

Creighton-Syracuse Preview

Media Menu: Creighton Women's Basketball vs. Syracuse (NCAA ...

Video

WBB: NCAA TOURNAMENT - FRIDAY PRESS CONFERENCE

 

[SteveC]

As time goes by I'm pretty sure that 2010 team is going to end up being one of my favorites. Maybe even my absolute favorite. :noidea:

 

[Orangeyes]

Post Standard Letters To The Editor

March 23, 2013

IN YOUR OPINION

Boeheim should retire at the top of his game

To the Editor: Leaving at the top of your game, especially in sports, is one of the most difficult things to do in life. Some seem to hang on, even though they can play, but it has a pathetic quality. Bart Starr is an example of that. On the other hand, people like Jim Brown knew when to hang it up even though they were the best at their position in the NFL.

Timing is everything.

In Syracuse, Jim Boeheim has a very difficult choice to make. He has an excellent assistant coach, Mike Hopkins, who he has designated “the SU coach in waiting.”

The University of Southern California is now courting Hopkins for a head coaching position. USC may have an advantage because Hopkins is from California and he may want to go back there.

Jim Boeheim is a great coach. There are only three men’s NCAA coaches who have ever achieved over 900 wins and Jim is one of them.

Amazingly, he has done this all at his alma mater.

Dedication to SU has never been an issue for Boeheim.

He has also won a NCAA national championship for SU. Next year, SU enters a new phase of athletics by joining the Atlantic Coast Conference. Jim has stated that he wants to transition SU into the ACC for at least one year. However, whenever he decides to retire, it still will be a very difficult decision to make, whether it is this year or next.

Letting go is very difficult, but Jim will retire as one of the best coaches ever in NCAA basketball history. In retirement, he could spend winters in warm climates to golf and devote more time to his charitable work with his wife, Julie. He could sit behind the bench with other former Big East great coaches like Jim Calhoun, John Thompson and Lou Carnesecca and enjoy the game.

Finally, Jim could also divest himself forever of being asked dumb questions by egotistical sports reporters such as ESPN’s Andy Katz. That alone should be reason enough to retire. Now is the time for Jim to retire and let Mike Hopkins bring SU into the ACC.

As an SU sports fan since 1959, and with the utmost praise, I respectfully ask Jim Boeheim to retire after this season and pass the reins to his protégé, Mike Hopkins.

It’s time.

——— GENE TINELLI

Jamesville

Big East would have survived with SU

To the Editor: I really agreed with former Georgetown coach John Thompson Jr. when he said, “I think it’s a damn disgrace. We established something ... that we could all be proud of, and then a bunch of knuckleheads … tore it apart.” I would dare to say one of them was the athletic director at Syracuse.

The Big East has been the premier basketball conference for a long time as evidenced by the number of teams they send to the NCAA Tournament each year. One year, I think they sent 11 teams. In other years, they sent many more teams than any other conference, so why in heaven’s name would you want to go to the Atlantic Coast Conference? It’s Duke-North Carolina every year.

They are lucky if they get four teams going, but leave it to the AD at Syracuse from the West Coast to screw up the works.

If Syracuse had said no, nobody else would have gone.

Syracuse was the key to the whole thing. We may not have the best football conference, but we are on a par in the other sports. It’s Florida State and Miami in football. The Big East had it all over the ACC. The pros certainly outweigh the cons.

The Big East Tournament certainly is, and will always be, the best tournament, and it stays in one place. Other tournaments move around. As far as a lot of people think, it was the Syracuse AD’s fault that started the demise of the Big East. Syracuse was the Big East. It’s just a crying shame that the best basketball conference will be no more. SU will always be the Big East!

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JOSEPH R. MCNAMARA

Fulton

Hand-checking is no fun to watch

To the Editor: According to the “NCAA Basketball 2010 and 2011 Men’s and Woman’s Rules: Section 7. (Men) Hand-Checking (Impending the Progress of a Player), to curtail hand-checking, officials must address it at the beginning of the game, and related personal fouls must be called throughout the game.

Some guidelines for officials to use when officiating handchecking: 1. When a defensive player keeps a hand or forearm on an opponent, it is a personal foul. 2. When a defensive player puts two hands on an opponent, it is a personal foul.

3. When a defensive player continually jabs by extending his arm(s) and placing a hand or forearm on the opponent, it is a personal foul.

Officials should review the 3-second violation and the blatant pushing of a player under the basket, especially on a free-throw.

Oh, for the good-old days when basketball was fun to watch, scoring was in the 80s, 90s, even 100s. The game has resorted to street ball and I for one am tired of it.

P.S. If they call a game according to the rules, Louisville won’t get out of the first round.

———

TOM MILLER

Fayetteville