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WB SU 73 vs BC 51 2/19/15 7:00 @Cuse WooHoo Butler

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Syracuse implements injury-prevention techniques to stay healthy



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Larry E. Reid Jr. | Staff Photographer

Brianna Butler and Syracuse have made several changes to prevent injuries, and the techniques Quentin Hillsman has implemented have paid off for the Orange.

By Josh HyberStaff Writer
13 hours ago
Quentin Hillsman joked about how his first Syracuse team often had more suits than uniforms on its bench during games.

During that 2006–07 season, the Orange sometimes had just seven healthy players, and the head coach was forced to participate in team drills during practices.

But with a gradual change in practice scheduling, the introduction of modern rehab methods and a deeper rotation, Hillsman’s teams have succumbed to injuries less frequently over the years. Other than the season-ending ACL tear of star guard Brittney Sykes, center Briana Day’s absence against Boston College on Jan. 18 has been the only game missed by a No. 25 Orange (18-8, 8-5 Atlantic Coast) player due to injury.

“We do a very good job of getting our players off their feet and letting them get their rest,” Hillsman said. “The things they have to go full speed through, they do. But we watch a lot of tape and do a lot of film work. I think that’s really helped us a lot.”

During Hillsman’s first few years at the helm, if the Orange had a noon game, its shoot-around was scheduled for 5:30 or 6 a.m. But over the years, Hillsman has eliminated gameday shoot-arounds all together and replaced them with gameday walk-throughs.

Hillsman has also implemented a 24-hour “get off your feet” rule before games.

“You have to get your body right and eat well,” Hillsman said. “If you have someone getting up at 4:45 in the morning for a 6 o’clock shoot around, they’re probably not getting a lot of rest. It’s just common sense to get our players off their feet and get them proper rest.”

For the past month, Syracuse has only practiced hard on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays — when it doesn’t have Thursday or Sunday games. When the team has a Sunday game, it has off on Mondays and has walk-throughs on Tuesdays. On Fridays, the team sleeps in and has walk-throughs at night before another walk-through on Saturday.

Rather than on-court practices, the team focuses on film study, an area in which associate head coach Vonn Read specializes.

Hillsman and his players also attribute the team’s few major injuries to its recovery work with associate athletic trainer Karen McKinney and director of strength and conditioning Ryan Cabiles.

Guard Brianna Butler, who has had lingering knee pain throughout the season, said Cabiles’ workouts target different muscle areas each day. Guard Diamond Henderson said the team has mandatory individual ice-bath sessions approximately once a week.

“When we go lift weights, we do a lot of stretching, a lot of foam rolling, ice baths, we get heat. We get ice,” Henderson said. “Whenever we have little aching injuries, we try to handle them before they get major.”

Players also take advantage of the team’s “stim machine,” a common rehabilitation treatment that involves patches stuck to the body that send pulses across the surface of the skin and along nerve strands. The pulses prevent pain signals from reaching the brain and also help the body produce endorphins.

Hillsman also preaches giving 10 players double-figure minutes every game in order to maintain his up-tempo offense. Because of the 10- and 11-player rotations he used earlier this season, Hillsman says, the seven and eight players he’s used lately for conference games have been a lot fresher.

They’ve also been healthy. Butler, Alexis Peterson and Isabella Slim have started all 26 games this season, and Henderson, Cornelia Fodren and Taylor Ford have played in every game, sometimes off the bench.

Said Butler: “This offseason we all approached everything differently. We worked on building up to reach this point in the season.”
 
SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 11m11 minutes ago
Butler for three on the opening possession and she nails it, Peteson gets herself in the lane on the second and it's 5-0 Cuse early.

SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 7m7 minutes ago
Butler Again from range! 8-2 Syracuse.

SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 5m5 minutes ago
Butler with the floater and the Orange pressure forces a BC 10-second violation. 10-2 'Cuse with at the U-16 media.

SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 1m1 minute ago
Butler AGAIN! She's got 11 points including 3-of-3 from long range thus far. 15-5 Cuse with 14:06 to go in the half.

Josh Hyber‏@JoshHyber 2m2 minutes ago
"A three from Bri." Butler has three makes from beyond the arc already. Needs one to tie, two to break school's all-time record.

SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 15m15 minutes ago
Ford with a three to get in on the action. SU is 5-of-7 from behind the arc thus far and leads 23-10 with 11:41 to go in the half.
 
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Josh Hyber‏@JoshHyber 7m7 minutes ago
Brianna Butler has just set Syracuse's all-time made 3-pointers record with 230, passing Julie McBride.

Sam Blum‏@SamBlum3 7m7 minutes ago
Brianna. Butler. Holy friggin guacamole. She has 17 points.

Brian Higgins‏@BrianHigginsSU 2m2 minutes ago
Brianna Butler just broke Julie McBride's career 3 point record and @CuseWBB leads by 20. Still 7:49 left in the half. Good night thus far.
 
SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 8m8 minutes ago
Morrison from three now. Syracuse is 8-of-11 from 3-point land tonight. 36-16 'Cuse, 8:30 to play in the half.

SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 18s19 seconds ago
BC on a 7-0 run to pull back within 13.

SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 1m1 minute ago
#HEATCHECK Butler from WAYYY down town. She's got 6 first-half threes, one shy of her career high.


Josh Hyber‏@JoshHyber 1m1 minute ago
Brianna Butler is 6-of-6 from 3-point range. 7-of-7 overall. Preposterous.

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Brian Higgins‏@BrianHigginsSU 2m2 minutes ago
Brianna Butler still perfect, 6-6 from 3 and 20 1st half points. @CuseWBB leads BC 41-26 with 2:05 left in half.

Sam Blum‏@SamBlum3 1m1 minute ago
Coach Hillsman’s presser: Five minutes of him laughing at everyone before getting up and leaving.

SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 2m2 minutes ago
Henderson in the lane to up the 'Cuse lead back to 17 with just over one minute until halftime.

Jon Mettus‏@jmettus 44s45 seconds ago
Brianna Butler’s first miss of the night comes with just seconds left in the half. She’s been on fire.
 
SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 3m3 minutes ago
Fondren in the lane extends the Syracuse lead to 23. 51-28 Syracuse with 18 mins left at the Dome.

SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 1m1 minute ago
Slim sinks a pair of FTs to become the 9th member of the Orange to get in the scoring column tonight. 55-31 Orange.

Brian Higgins‏@BrianHigginsSU 1m1 minute ago
@CuseWBB lead up to 24 now, 55-31 on BC with 15:46 left in the Dome.
 
SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 2m2 minutes ago
U-12 TO: @CuseWBB owns a 59-33 lead over Boston College with 11:58 to go. Butler (20) leads all scorers.

Brian Higgins‏@BrianHigginsSU 2m2 minutes ago
Best the Orange have looked in a while, @CuseWBB leads BC 59-33 now with 11:58 left in the Dome.
 
It's good to know all Syracuse teams beat the clowns
 
SU Women's Hoops‏@CuseWBB 25s25 seconds ago
U-8 TO: @CuseWBB still owning a commanding 68-37 lead over Boston College with 7:31 left

Syracuse Athletics‏@Cuse 6m6 minutes ago
U-4 TO: @CuseWBB leading BC 68-49. Orange shooting 51-percent on the day.

Brian Higgins‏@BrianHigginsSU 6m6 minutes ago
3:51 for the Orange to put on the finishing touches, but @CuseWBB well on its way to (19-8, 9-5) with a 68-49 lead on BC
 
Josh Hyber‏@JoshHyber 2m2 minutes ago
Final: No. 25 Syracuse beats Boston College 73-51. Brianna Butler finishes with 22 points, and sets the school's all-time 3-point record.
 

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