It’s also not Syracuse’s fault Florida seems to not care about their basketball team. EDSBS, which is my favorite Florida blog out there, openly admitted its hatred of basketball and of the Florida basketball team…..the day it won its second NC in a row.

Totally agree with your third point (Wes having a so-so game), and I think it can be extended even further. Aside from Rick Jackson, it seemed like a mediocre performance from the entire team. Yet we controlled the entire game. Part of that can be credited to the Florida defense, but if we can soundly beat the #11 team in the country on a bad night, then the sky’s the limit for these guys.

I’m excited.

Way to rep the Big East, Orange. As a UofL fan, I’ve already had to endure the insufferable UK talk that “The SEC is now better than the Big East.” Hopefully last night puts a damper on that. Although they’ve never known to be a rational bunch…

From my experience in the 1st row!!!

That was awesome…

My general admission got me 1st row!!! Entire game I was 1st row behind the basket on Syracuse’s side. I was the only fan there with my arm outstretched at the beginning of the game and AO was the only one that left me hanging. You can even see me in the highlights when Rautins and Wes make their threes I’m jumping up and down.

I made Kenny Boynton miss a free throw since it was extremely quiet and I was screaming at him, enough to lose my voice. They only took like 4 FT’s I think in the 1st half though, so I didn’t do too much.

The atmosphere was awesome. At least 50/50 Cuse fans, and at the end it was nuts. Florida’s busloads exited with like a minute left, and after that it was just Syracuse chaos. There were Cuse fans everywhere. Outside you could hear chants and not a Gator was in sight. Edit: I saw one that was like a Gator fan group leader who had a “House of Horrors” sign. As he was walking on the bus I yelled out “This is the house of pain!!”. I forget what the sign said though at the time. :) You couldn’t hear chants during the game because the band played at every timeout and would drown out any chant.

I met some Mississippi State fans who were very nice. They enjoyed their win and were able to shake hands with their coach. They were most impressed with Syracuse’s size and Rick Jackson(who wasn’t?).

All in all a great night(except for FT shooting). Enjoy this win and the many more to come, I certainly am.

PS- I don’t know if anyone else was there, but there was a “21 shit himself” chant going on in our section. Werner had a definite “brown stain” on the back of his shorts.

Irving Walker heard it after that Joseph airball! I made sure of that :lol: He actually air balled twice. Boynton and Parsons were on fire though. They really chucked away from “the parking lot” although it was impossible for me to see how far back they were until I saw highlights.

I’m forced to give Werner the benefit of the doubt, but if you go to the 2 hour mark on 360 and watch for about a minute and look for it, there is a shot of his rear end(no homo) and you can see a stain. Either way, it was just hilarious there was a group of loud, male SU fans that were all screaming it. The Florida fans were all laughing too. :lol:

Oh yea, Rony Seikaly was also in attendance. He was maybe in the 3rd row behind the Syracuse bench. Someone pointed it out to me, and it was unmistakably him. Tan, black hair, tall with a blue hoodie and a S on the front of it.

Jim Boeheim also had a rowdy group of fans chanting his name after he was going into the locker room after the win. He had to have been proud of the support. From his vantage point, there was many 200 fans all in that area getting held back by security(they were anal about stepping off the bleacher part), plus Syracuse banners and flags all being waved around. We looked like an army.

PS- I don’t know if anyone else was there, but there was a "21 shit himself" chant going on in our section. Werner had a definite "brown stain" on the back of his shorts.

Believe me, there’s a solid Cuse Collective down there. Some retirees, but mostly just folks from the NE who moved down for work over the last 20 years.

I went to a sports bar/restaurant on Jax beach named “Sneakers” for every game in the G-Mac tourney, and even with the SEC and ACC tourney’s on concurrently, far more Cuse out than anyone else.

Brent Axe had a tweet last night to the effect of, “this is a Final Four team” – just……wow…..I guess I hadn’t thought about it that way. But that’s a big deal.