By The Hair On Kris Joseph's Chinny Chin Chin: Syracuse 72, UConn 67
by Sean Keeley on Feb 10, 2010 11:16 PM EST
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PrintSyracuse is undefeated all-time when wearing their Nike Hyper Elite uniforms. Barely. Thank God the new unis are 70% lighter than previous ones. If Syracuse is wearing uniforms 70% heavier, they lose. I think.
The Orange survived, and I mean survived UConn 72-67 on Wednesday night to improve to 24-1. The loss drops UConn to 14-10 and puts them squarely in the sights of the NIT.
After squandering all of a 16-point, second-half lead, the Syracuse Orange pulled out of its skid for a 72-67 victory over Connecticut on Wednesday night at the Carrier Dome.
Syracuse led 50-34 with just under 14 minutes left in the game. However, Connecticut rallied all the way back to tie the game at 65-all with two and a half minutes remaining.
A big reason the Orange squandered their lead? Foul trouble. Namely that of Andy Rautins. The Orange iced the win with critical free-throw shooting, going 7-8 from the line in the closing minute. A couple of those fouls were considered questionable by some folks. I suppose if the opinion of that person had any credibility in the public forum, we'd consider it more strongly.
More recap tomorrow. In the meantime, breathe easy. The Orange, who usually have their bad half first before getting it together, simply did the opposite tonight. You can say they should have lost. Or I suppose you could also say any other year, they lose that game. But this team just keeps winning. It's what they do.
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I just realized
that I have as much chin facial hair as K(J)O.
What does Syracuse do...SHUT IT DOWN. Nuff said.
Free throw shooting
was surprisingly good in this game. We always say that our crappy FT% will end up costing us a game. Well I think this was supposed to be that game, but somehow those free throws found the bottom of the net.
Like you said, this team just wins.
Go, fight, and win.
please dont send any linkage towards that douchenozzle bayless
one of the greatest things about not being in college, and working a 9-5 is that I never have to flip by their terrible terrible midmorning espn snow
Update:
635 @ Tollway
BTW do you know of any good places here where cuse fans watch games/hammer opposing fans?
I'll see your inch
and raise you another three feet.
There’s supposed to be a table and four chairs out there.
Go, fight, and win.
Looks like my backyard right now
Just awful weather lately…I feel like I’m back at the ’Cuse.
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
by kotite4ever on Feb 11, 2010 10:21 AM EST up reply actions
Cuse had maybe an inch on the ground
when I went to the UConn game, you guys can keep the snow all down there.
Did you steal that line from
the Monsters of Cock series?
by NotBrentAxe on Feb 11, 2010 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
Don't know of any dfw spots for cuse fans..
Want to start one though? I know of at least one other alum down here.
by brendoh on Feb 11, 2010 12:49 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Any street racer'll tell 'ya...
“a win’s a win”…. unless Kentucky wins… then we’re still in the 3 spot…
by QuintInBedstuy on Feb 10, 2010 11:35 PM EST reply actions
Whatever, Scoop got hacked - it evened out.
This was one of the worst officiated games I have seen all year. At both ends of the court. I feel like every single call was a make-up call for some grand fuck-up and they just kept trying to even things out.
Andy Katz can quote his “veteran official” source all he wants (hey, Andy – this is f’ing basketball kid, you don’t need to turn your sources into Deepthroat) here but the rules cited can be interpreted in various ways. He seems to focus on this rule, "The game clock and shot clock, if running, shall be stopped when an official: grants a coach’s or player’s visual or oral request for a time out." But give this one very little weight, "A timeout shall be granted and charged after a player or head coach makes a visual or oral request and when a player of that team is in control of the ball." They may seem similar, but they say different things and unfortunately Andy couldn’t quite get this through his little head. The first rule says that the clock stops when the official recognizes a TO. The second says that a TO is granted – saying nothing of the official – when the request is made. Obviously there are officials (in spite of their disappearance from the wording of the second rule), so it can be taken to mean that the TO should have been granted when Boeheim started yelling and running over to Cahill. Unfortunately there is no subclause to that second rule about what you do when your conference’s refs are all old, hard of hearing, slow, and completely and pitifully incompetent. To sum up, my interpretation of these rules is that a TO is granted when the ref recognizes it but that the ref is expected to recognize the TO when it is called and not sit there trying to figure out how to blow his whistle.
Oh, and one more thing – as someone on ESPN’s comments noted – check out this clip: questionable calls all around. Fact is, Scoop clearly got hacked by Edwards so the reality is that it all evened out since Johnson ended up at the FT line before any more time elapsed.
The BE needs to do what school districts, auto makers, etc have been doing for years and pay their old (and slow, short…) refs to retire so we can get some fresh blood in here. Of course, the ideal scenario would be to have a national pool of refs instead of having refs for each conference. That way fewer biases would creep in.
I agree
officiating was terrible all around. They called ticky tack fouls up top on Syracuse and then ticky tack on Uconn down low. But the Uconn guards were able to get all over Jardine and Rautins, and the Cuse bigs had leniency on Uconn. Be consistent. It’s out of control.
If I was a Uconn fan I would be pissed too since it didn’t look like he granted the timeout right away, but who knows what the official was thinking. Maybe he heard Boeheim and was slow to react. Either way they called a timeout, how about quit whining and not grab Wes Johnson wiht 30 seconds left. Cuse had gone in the tank offensively, just a dumb dumb foul.
Uconn can suck it.
Yep
And then when Edwards TRIED to foul with 5.8 seconds left, the refs required contact. For the first 39 minutes, 54.2 seconds, you couldn’t breathe on someone without getting a foul.
Seriously, when it makes me wish Higgins was reffing, that is pretty bad.
Another reason to leave the Big East. The officiating is routinely third-rate. Football and basketball.
My real problem with this rule is this:
Technically I think Andy is right, a timeout can only be granted when a team has possession and for a timeout to count, it must be granted. The ref is supposed to grant the timeout the moment it is requested verbally or visually, but the rules make no room for error on the part of the refs. Meaning, a ref can screw up (as Cahill did) and that’s just too bad for the team calling the timeout. It’s bullshit really. I think technically, by the book, we got away with one. But the only reason we got away with one was because the ref screwed up in the first place, so I have no problem with the outcome.
Also
How many times does a player dive on the floor in a scrum for the ball, apparently say something, and then a timeout is retroactively called? In none of those cases does anything that happens after the request and before the referee makes a signal matter.
They COULD have a rule that says a coach cannot call the timeout. But they do not.
It’s the same thing.
That being said, it would be nice if Scoop had a basketball I.Q. greater than 14.
I tend to agree with you guys, obviously.
To be completely fair, UConn has the right to be frustrated, but at the same time, the credibility of the game should not be an issue based on what transpired. Definitely slow “whistle-to-mouth” action on the timeout, so that point is moot. In terms of calls and fouls (including AO’s goaltending, I think it was AO?), it was garbage both ways all game. But again, the foul that put Wes on the line was clearly a foul.
So debate all you want, but it seemed to even out. Great teams will always say, “those things tend to even out.”
The bigger concern for UConn is getting Calhoun back. George Blaney (is that the fill-in?) looks like he’d be a great next door neighbor, a guy for whom you’d mow the lawn and then have an MGD on the front porch and recount stories of his past. However, he does not inspire me as a head basketball coach. Sure, his experience and knowledge are probably in the top 5% of current coaches, but he doesn’t strike me as that guy who will stare down an opposing freshman and knock him off his game.
Gotta give a lot of credit to those UConn kids though, they fought their asses off. I, for one, think they are much better than their record indicates, and it’s understandable why their record doesn’t match their skill/potential.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Feb 11, 2010 9:54 AM EST reply actions
guys on ESPN described blaney well
they said how he’s the good cop to calhoun’s bad cop, so with calhoun out and now blaney trying to play that role, uconn effectively loses 2 coaches. when joseph threw away that behind the back pass and boeheim took him out and joseph sat next to bernie on the bench, they compared the boeheim-fine dynamic to that of calhoun-blaney.
BK: This guy is on fire, he is really smokin'.
KenKo: Oh yeah, Bill? What's he smokin'?
Refs were calling ticky tacky stuff all night!
Still no excuse for almost blowing a 16 point lead.
by upstateNYYFan1984 on Feb 11, 2010 9:55 AM EST reply actions
Skip Bayless
can go die in a pit of fire while being eaten alive by snakes and lions. That man couldn’t be a more prime example of someone who just got on TV because he’s opinionated, yells a lot, and is articulate. He ALWAYS picks a side just because it’s different than everyone else or it’s controversial. He’s a dumbass and can go suck it.
by giantsfan5689 on Feb 11, 2010 11:00 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
When I used to drive a lot for my job, I would listen to sports talk radio every day and Jim Rome was a regular listen.
I hated Jim Rome. With a passion. I would listen mostly just to get annoyed—it’s a weird habit of mine. Anyway, he’s probably the worst sports radio host I’ve ever heard.* Or at least I thought that was true until Skip Bayless would sub in for him. Skip Bayless, somehow, was worse than Jim Rome. So it boggled my mind when a year or two later Skip is on ESPN.com and eventually on my actual TV!
It’s all for the exact reason you say: he tries to be controversial and talk loudly. He has nothing of actual substance to say.
- - Colin Cowherd might actually now hold that title. It’s a tough call. But I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when Tony Kornheiser first left his talk show and he was replaced in the DC lineup with Colin Cowherd’s ESPN Radio show. Wow is that man boring and annoying.
One of my favorite moments from last night:
Go, fight, and win.
by Alex O on Feb 11, 2010 11:20 AM EST reply actions 5 recs
Thank you...
For that!
Jimmy was all over Joseph last night. From that first three point ‘attempt’ when Kris decided not to shoot while in mid air and got called for a travel. On the broadcast you could hear coach ask “Why are you shooting that!?” Then a couple possesions later, Joseph jacked up another 3. Genius.
by Winfred Walton on Feb 11, 2010 11:41 AM EST up reply actions
Have I said
that’s a great username yet? Cause it is.
Unless that’s really you, Winfred…
Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician - The Syracuse blog that cares.
by Sean Keeley on Feb 11, 2010 11:45 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
That was a classic Jimmy B moment.
Even the announcers knew it. KJo attempts that pass and, at least in my mind, it’s as if the announcers said in unison, “Pull him.” Then, I swear, one of them said, “This is going to be fun to watch” as KJo walked towards the bench.
Am I making that up. I feel like that actually happened.
I can't
stop watching it. It’s making me laugh. Jimmy never swears does he?
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
by PoetryInMoten on Feb 11, 2010 6:19 PM EST up reply actions
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