SWC75
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- Education can be broadening and this is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the history of Syracuse Basketball as you try to determine when things were last this bad. We scored even fewer points in this game than we did in the dismal 1968 Kansas game where we tried to hold down the score by stalling and still managed to get to 41 points. You have to go back to the opening game at Manley Field House 12/1/62, when we beat Kent State 36-35 to find a lower SU offensive output. Jim Boeheim was a freshman at the time. Before that you have to go back to a 36-43 loss to Duquesne in 1950.
- We are an offensive juggernaut compared to our first national championship team, the 1917-18 group that averaged 28 points a game, (they still went 16-1). We also topped out 1925-26 champs, who averaged 32 points per game in going 19-1. We even beat our only undefeated team, the 1913-14 group that averaged 31 in 12 games. If the fans in those days had seen our current team, they’d have been amazed at how they play the game. Actually, today’s fans are kind of amazed, just in a different way.
- We scored 85 points on Georgetown. It took two games to do it but we did it.
- They scored 57 and 61 points to beat us. But that didn’t beat us. What we scored did. And even Georgetown’s score was inflated because it was fed by our offensive failures. We have a good defensive team.
- Michael Carter Williams shot 8 for 13, (his teammates were 7 for 34) and scored 17 points, 43.6% of our output.
- Rakeem Christmas showed some signs of life by making all three of his shots, including a nifty turn-around, scoring 8 points, grabbing 6 rebounds and blocking a shot in 26 minutes. Maybe someday…
- Thanks to Accurater for hosting me. The food and conversation were good, at least.
- It was a nice day, outside anyway.
- It will all be over soon.
23-8 and on to New York
LET’S GO ORANGE!
- We are an offensive juggernaut compared to our first national championship team, the 1917-18 group that averaged 28 points a game, (they still went 16-1). We also topped out 1925-26 champs, who averaged 32 points per game in going 19-1. We even beat our only undefeated team, the 1913-14 group that averaged 31 in 12 games. If the fans in those days had seen our current team, they’d have been amazed at how they play the game. Actually, today’s fans are kind of amazed, just in a different way.
- We scored 85 points on Georgetown. It took two games to do it but we did it.
- They scored 57 and 61 points to beat us. But that didn’t beat us. What we scored did. And even Georgetown’s score was inflated because it was fed by our offensive failures. We have a good defensive team.
- Michael Carter Williams shot 8 for 13, (his teammates were 7 for 34) and scored 17 points, 43.6% of our output.
- Rakeem Christmas showed some signs of life by making all three of his shots, including a nifty turn-around, scoring 8 points, grabbing 6 rebounds and blocking a shot in 26 minutes. Maybe someday…
- Thanks to Accurater for hosting me. The food and conversation were good, at least.
- It was a nice day, outside anyway.
- It will all be over soon.
23-8 and on to New York
LET’S GO ORANGE!
