Posts Tagged ‘syracuse’
From the Wire: Monday Links
Today’s best from college newspapers around the country:
No Michigan State player pushed harder to reach the Final Four than Travis Walton — Alex Altman, The State News
ALSO: MSU clinched its fifth Final Four berth in 11 years; Thousands of fans welcomed them home
Pitt isn’t ready to think about whether DeJuan Blair will come back next season — Mike Gladysz, The Pitt News
ALSO: The Panthers are not accustomed to losing close games
Danny Green came up big for North Carolina with Tyler Hansbrough and Wayne Ellington struggling — David Ely, The Daily Tar Heel
ALSO: The Heels have bigger goals than reaching the Final Four
Upsets are great, but top-quality matchups are better — Jonah Braun, The Badger Herald
Oklahoma‘s guards just couldn’t match their UNC counterparts — Joey Helmer, The Oklahoma Daily
ALSO: Mistakes got the Sooners sent home early
From the Wire: Saturday Links
Today’s best from college newspapers around the country:
Raymar Morgan’s bruised face was evidence of Michigan State‘s battle against Kansas — Alex Altman, The State News
ALSO: The Spartans were calm at halftime despite trailing; Not “fragile” anymore; MSU hung in there
North Carolina was too much inside for the Zags — Jesse Baumgartner, The Daily Tar Heel
ALSO: The Tar Heels found it surprisingly easy
“You can’t do anything” when UNC plays like that, Gonzaga‘s Josh Heytvelt said — Steven Sandberg, The Gonzaga Bulletin
All season, it was clear Kansas would go only as far as Sherron Collins could carry them — Case Keefer, The University Daily Kansan
Blake Griffin had 30 and 14 as Oklahoma squeezed the Orange
– Daniel Martin, The Oklahoma Daily
Analysis: 2 Oklahoma def. 3 Syracuse
2 Oklahoma 84
3 Syracuse 71
South Region semifinals • FedEx Forum, Memphis, Tenn.
By Corey DeMoss
– Oklahoma led the entire game and put this one away early in the second half. After taking a 13-point lead into halftime, the Sooners exploded as the second half began, going on a 17-3 run. The Orange never got within 13 points for the rest of the game.
From the Wire: Friday Links
Today’s best from college newspapers around the country:
UConn‘s Craig Austrie came up big after slumping recently — Kevin Duffy, The Daily Campus
ALSO: A quick start helped the Huskies go from Sweet to Elite
Duke‘s big three — Gerald Henderson, Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer — had no answers for Villanova
– Sabreena Merchant, The Duke Chronicle
ALSO: Lapsing in all phases of the game, the Blue Devils went out with a thud
Missouri sure knows how to make things exciting
– Lenny Goldman, The Maneater
Memphis, like Kansas, did well to make it this far after so much offseason turnover — Kelly Breckunitch, The University Daily Kansan
Pitt‘s Levance Fields lived up to his “Mr. Big Shot” nickname
– Michael Gladysz, The Pitt News
Reporter Interview: Kyle Austin on Syracuse
Syracuse surges into a Sweet Sixteen meeting with Oklahoma having won nine of its past 10 games, losing only the Big East tournament final against Louisville after a memorable run that included the second-longest game in Division I history. Can Jonny Flynn, Eric Devendorf and Paul Harris keep it going?
Daily Orange sports editor Kyle Austin helps us break it down.
From the Wire: Wednesday Links
Today’s best from college newspapers around the country:
All the attention the Blue Devils get, good and bad, is too much for even a Duke-sized brain to absorb — Meredith Shiner, The Duke Chronicle
ALSO: Taylor King is on the other side of Thursday’s matchup after going from Duke to Villanova
Pitt‘s Jamie Dixon is on the cusp of elite status among college basketball coaches
– Mike Gladysz, The Pitt News
ALSO: Pitt campus police are worried about celebratory rioting
North Carolina is somewhat familiar with the Gonzaga squad it’ll face Friday
– David Ely, The Daily Tar Heel
Jonny Flynn has been the center of attention, with a ball in his hand, since well before he arrived at Syracuse — Zach Schonbrun, The Daily Orange
ALSO: SU is the latest team to tackle the problem of Oklahoma‘s Blake Griffin
Screw Cinderella, there’s no reason to give these tiny teams automatic bids — Brett Talley, The Daily Toreador
Their tournament performances prove the Big East was better than the ACC
– Randy Lieberman, The Pitt News
From the Wire: Tuesday Links
Today’s best from college newspapers around the country:
Jim Boeheim’s next win will be his 800th, all at Syracuse
– Michael Bonner, The Daily Orange
Looking good on the court is important for several Memphis players
– Megan Harris, The Daily Helmsman
Xavier has a long “to do” list to get Sean Miller a victory against Pitt, his alma mater
– Doug Tifft, The Xavier Newswire
Refs need to take a look at the pounding Oklahoma‘s Blake Griffin is receiving
– Jono Greco, The Oklahoma Daily
Breaking down the top mascots in the Sweet Sixteen — Marc Gauthier, The Daily Campus
Off the court: Marty & Barry
As a palate cleanser before we plunge into the nitty and gritty of eight delicious Sweet Sixteen games, let’s pause to meet Marty Headd and Barry Greer, two men who prove college basketball is at times about more than slam dunks and buzzer-beating 3-pointers.
Marty is a former all-Big East player at Syracuse 28 years ago who now works as a janitor at his alma mater. It’s not a sob story; as Adeniyi Amadou of the Daily Orange explains, Marty has no complaints:
He rises in darkness every morning at 3, sets out for work against the whipping, snow-filled north wind and walks to the university. He crosses Euclid Avenue without breaking a stride. By 5 a.m., he punches in. He spends the next eight hours doing the work that most of America doesn’t want to do.
“From the minute I get there, I’m cleaning,” Marty said. “I’m pulling trash, I’m mopping floors, I’m cleaning bathrooms. I really like to work with my hands. I don’t think I can have an office job where I talk on the phone, sit in front of a computer. …I need to work.”
Wrap: Sunday’s second round
The annual sporting bacchanalia that is the opening days of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament produced surprisingly few actual upsets. Our Sweet Sixteen includes all of the top 12 seeds and 14 of the top 16, plus No. 5 seed Purdue and No. 12 Arizona. See how Sunday’s winners got there or catch up on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Midwest Region
1 Louisville def. 9 Siena
Analysis: 3 Syracuse def. 6 Arizona State
3 Syracuse 78
6 Arizona State 67
South Region second round • American Airlines Arena, Miami
By Jim Reedy
– Arizona State just couldn’t figure out the 2-3 zone fast enough. Rihards Kuksiks and Ty Abbott each scored 20 points on six 3-pointers, but the Sun Devils got very little from their three best players. James Harden vanished for the third straight postseason game, Jeff Pendergraph was all but lost to foul trouble and Derek Glasser hit one shot from the field. It was impressive, in one sense, that ASU even had the margin as close as four points in the second half.
