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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 872860, member: 289"]
-  Miami can sure play defense but we were even better. This was the second straight game we held a team to under 50 points and we’ve held two other teams to exactly 50 and another to 52. Only Fordham and California have reached 70 points against us, (and we won both games easily). In that horrible 10 ½ minutes stretch we went without a field goal, we only gave up 14 points, which allowed us to stay in the game. Nobody runs away and hides on Syracuse.

-  This was similar to the St. Francis game in that the opposition was playing terrific defense through most of the game but just didn’t have the energy to keep it up and we were able to get a run at the end that won the game for us. In this case it was an 8-0 burst from 6:11 to 3:20 that turned the game around from 35-40 to 43-40 and gave us control of the game down the stretch.

-  We didn’t get big numbers but the numbers we got were big in a 49-44 game. CJ Fair scored 15 points but it seemed more like 30. Tyler Ennis had 10 points, 7 assists and 3 steals vs. only 2 turnovers. Even Trevor Cooney with his 2 for 12 from the field made 5 of 6 free throws for 11 big points. There were three double-figure scorers in this game and we had all of them.

-  Rakeem Christmas had 8 big points and 7 rebounds, 4 of them after it was 35-40. He also cut off an alley-oop to get us the ball back.

-  Jerami Grant blocked a shot on one end and then made that 15 footer to get us to within 39-40.

-  Not everybody is going to be able to defend us like that. And not every team is going to drain the clock like that either. This was the first game we’ve had all year with less than 100 possessions. They aren’t all going to look like this one.

14-0 with 17+ to go

Let’s Go Orange!
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