Your Syracuse-Vermont Lazy Announcer Bingo Card
by Sean Keeley on Mar 17, 2010 3:54 PM EDT
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Alright, enough of this nonsense. We're the No. 1 seed, let's start acting like it.
I don't want to read articles written by Syracuse alums giving me every reason that Vermont is going to beat us (in 2004, apparently). And I certainly don't want to see our beat writer, the guy who knows this team better than anyone, lacking the faith that SU can reach the Final Four.
Sometimes I feel like Heidi Klum is the only person who really knows me. You know? No...you guys wouldn't understand.
Look, we're not going to lose to Vermont. 2005 was 2005. We're going to win and we're going to win much easier than everyone thinks (Not that I still don't want to crush their souls, but, you know...). All this doom and gloom business needs to stop. No offense to the big man, but we can beat a mid-major without AO.
More tourney-related news and notes after the jump:
- Two generations follow Boeheim to Buffalo...Buffalo News
- Murphy on Riley: “He’ll be fine.”...Daily Orange
- Syracuse needs to "Shut it Down" in the NCAA Tournament...Donna Ditota
- Analysts can't stop talking about SU's zone defense...Mike Waters
- Price of tickets skyrocket to see Syracuse Orange play in Buffalo...Douglass Dowty
- Orange::44 Bracketology...Orange44
- Cuse Country’s “Pick With Your Heart” Bracket Challenge...Cuse Country
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Pre-Richmond
“Don’t forget, No 15 or 16 has ever beaten a 1 or a 2”
ummmmm
- Richmond become the first ……..over #2 seeded SYRACUSE!!!!!!!!!!
Even odds
that you get a bingo before the game even starts.
Either across the top, or the diagonal going from Andy is Leo’s son, down to the national title in 2003.
by KaiserKyle on Mar 17, 2010 4:06 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I See
About 12 spots that might as well be free spaces.
Ditto
I think this card might be blacked-out
Nothing like a cover-all
I didn’t even know the Jason Hart one, though. Quick, someone tip off Gus Johnson.
...it's the most bullshit thing I've seen in thirty years.
by Girardi Party on Mar 19, 2010 1:19 AM EDT up reply actions
When discussing the idea of losing to Vermont again...
…I will quote, as I often do, my inner Homer Simpson.
“I can’t let that happen, I won’t let that happen, and I can’t let that happen!”
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
What else does he have to do?
Even if CBS doesn’t invite him, I imagine he’ll find a way on to the broadcast.
Tom Brennan will be at this game.
The man knows where his bread is buttered. And if he’s at the game, CBS will know.
Couldn't Have Said It Better Sean...
I’m sick of this feeling like ‘Cuse nation is scared of playing Vermont. It’s ok to think AO’s injury sucks, but for god sakes this team is damn good…really really good.
Let’s go in there and make a statement like every other #1 is going to do and put this to bed in the first 15 minutes of the game.
What happened to everyone being excited to be the #1 seed….
by 'CuseConnection on Mar 17, 2010 4:41 PM EDT reply actions
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Most fear is us looking BEYOND the Vermont game, where the Zags/ FSU lie in wait.
Hand on heart, nary one Orangeman thinks we ARE going to lose to Vermont.
Now, is there a punters chance, they might defeat us?
sure.
But that’s the risk we take very time we step out on the court.
Let’s not confuse genuine concern about AO and his injury affecting how deep we can go, with THIS game.
To be honest...
Are we worried about Vermont? I’m not. Gonzaga, on the other hand, should be better than an 8 seed. That is a legit game – especially for the second round.
What nobody talks about in the ‘Zags is that they have a guy out with a broken foot. I have a feeling that’s what landed them their 8 seed instead of doing better. Our smaller lineup should actually be BETTER against the ’Zags than our big lineup.
If our guys come out with the same intensity they did against ‘Nova or even UNC, they’re not going to get beaten
Other people look, Andy Rautins can SEE.
When the 2-3 zone starts humming and the Cuse plays unselfish, team ball
nobody in the country can beat the them.
Not Kansas. Not Kentucky. Not Kansas State.
And most certainly not frickin’ Vermont or Gonzaga.
Even if AO literally can’t run or jump, they can still go deep in the tournament, and if they make it to Indy, hold onto your hats.
Shut.
It.
Down.
That's the problem
The team that can beat anyone, and hasn’t shown that it can lose to anyone yet, is also capable of showing an utter lack of respect for possessions—turning the ball over with a frequency that ordinarily does not lead to deep tournament runs.
It’s the same old song and dance. If we get 20 assists and have less than 12 turnovers…. and can avoid missing more than 1 or 2 layups… and can avoid a disastrous night at the free throw line (either misses or foul trouble for Vermont), we should be fine.
If Scoop and Andy are careless… if Rick is soft… if Brandon is non-existent… we may make history. And that is scary enough to be nervous.
we got this
no doubt. this is going to look like one of our november/december games from this year.
watch wes break 30. dashonte will get some decent burn because we’ll be comfortably ahead. good experience for when he plays an important role in our 2nd round victory. then next weekend AO will be back and we’ll roll whoever we play in the sweet 16 (UTEP is my pick). after that either some revenge against an over-achieving pitt team or a solid STFU game for all the doubters against kansas state. and then we take over indianapolis.
book it.
BK: This guy is on fire, he is really smokin'.
KenKo: Oh yeah, Bill? What's he smokin'?
And then we go on to beat the Cavaliers...
and then cure cancer…
and then master interstellar transportation…
etc.
Honestly, I am much more worried about this weekend than next weekend. I pissed off Gonzaga for being seeded 8th, bolstered by a win against a tough FSU team, scares me… especially without A.O.
Also, a good team like Kansas St. or Xavier may think that “their offense” is better than our zone, and not sufficiently respect that you need to change what you ordinarily do in order to beat it.
I may be extraordinarily negative, but this team seems to smart to spend so much time playing so dumb. How can we let teams go on 19-2 runs with this much offensive talent and this much defensive intensity? And how can it happen so many times during the season??? I guess I can see ego-centric players doing that… but we should be too smart to keep making the same mistakes. If we can play well on Friday, that will give me more confidence.
runs happen in college ball
especially when a team plays a 2-3 zone. 90% of the runs Syracuse gives up are of the four three’s in a row variety, plus a couple of lay-ups. It happens when teams are shooting over the zone, sometimes, no matter how well the zone faces up a shooter, they’ll get a couple off that drop. The defense gets knocked on their heels somewhat and Boeheim calls a TO and the sun rises in the east again.
What I’ve liked about this team all season is that they adjust to an offense really well. They may have a close first half, but most of the time, Boeheim knows what’s happening and the team fixes it at the half. Unless the opposing team shoots 70% from the floor in the second half, then, well, you take your loss like a man.
NICE BINGO BOARD!!
vermont is a bunch of fucking tree huggers and they’re gonna be hanging on jackson and kris joseph all game!! LETS GO CUSE!!
1996 Cuse-Georgia highlights on March Madness on Demand
Just testing out my internet connection at work this morning…
Saw they had highlights of the 1996 Syracuse-Georgia game where Cipolla made the tying shot at the end of regulation and JW mage the winning three in OT.
I remember screaming, “NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!” at the screen when JW took that shot at the top of the key. Hey, he made it. History. Sweet.
'91 SU alum
I just watched the '03 regional final vs. Oklahoma
awesome game. We blew them out despite a crappy FT % and a dreadful 3pt %. Also, right around the 10 minute mark in the 2nd, Anthony got intentionally hip-checked into the stands in the backcourt with the ref running up the court right behind the “play.” No call.
Syracuse players have a lot of length.
Just to quell some fears
Granted Vermont’s RPI is 117, better than the other 16 seeds (121, 152, 183), however they’re SOS is 307! They haven’t beaten anyone with an RPI over 81 (Fairfield), fuck, that was only the second team under 100 RPI they even played all year.
They don’t have a good ball handling big guy that can hurt a zone. They are going to shoot 30+ 3’s during the game. They key will be blowing them away on our offensive end. Score early, score often. That will prevent the one-in-a-million night where they hit like 50% from behind the arc.
Not having AO simply means (for this game) keeping KJ/RJ out of foul trouble, nothing more.
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All that said, the mere thought of losing to Vermont again, and being the first 1 seed to go down causes a lot of monkey ulcers.
Go Orange(men)!
I'm less concerned about THIS Syracuse team losing THIS game
than I am about the fact that if they did somehow lose in a cruel, fluky turn of fate, it won’t be fun to watch Syracuse games anymore.
A sixteen WILL beat a one eventually. It will happen, and that team that loses will be nothing short of a laughing stock for years despite any past history or on-court success. The Cinderella 16 seed will be the biggest media darlings of our time, and the one seed’s games for the foreseeable future will be little more than a footnote to memories of that game—like a combination of being the 1986-2004 Red Sox and the 2007 (post-Appy State) Michigan Wolverines.
...it's the most bullshit thing I've seen in thirty years.
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