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[QUOTE="General20, post: 1721851, member: 724"]
Short answer . . . nothing.

The story of that game has been the press, from everybody.  But as usual I think most "experts" miss the point.  Holding Virginia to 62 points is no special achievement.  Even holding them to 27 in the second half isn't exactly noteworthy.  Virginia plays at a slow pace and doesn't score a lot of points.  The real accomplishment was scoring 47 points against an excellent Virginia D in one half.  Syracuse scored on 9 consecutive possessions against Virginia during their comeback (making 9 of 10 shots, and getting the O rebound and put back on the one shot they missed).  If they didn't score every time the few times they turned Virginia over would not have mattered much.  I wish there was a way to bottle that, but of course there is not.

I think Richardson has reason to be confident against UNC after his performance against Virginia.  I think Cooney has reason to be confident against UNC after putting up 27 or 28 against them earlier in the season, I think Gbinije has reason to be confident because he's always good.  The problem is, there is no correlation between being confident and playing great.  If there was, Syracuse would get crushed by UNC because they are rightfully as confident as a team can be.

As Boeheim said before the Virginia game - The team that wants it most is not going to win this game, the team that plays the best is.
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