Not A Great Weekend To Be No. 1 At Syracuse

by Sean Keeley on Mar 8, 2010 12:14 PM EST

On Saturday, the No. 1 basketball Orange ran into the upset-minded Louisville Cardinals. For the No. 1 SU lacrosse team, Sunday meant a showdown with No. 2 Virginia, which pretty much ensured that the game would be decided by one point and would come down to the final seconds. Which is exactly what happened. Unfortunately, not in SU's favor.

The No. 1 Syracuse lacrosse team scored one — repeat, one — even-strength goal against No. 2 Virginia’s defense in the first three quarters of an 11-10 loss before a crowd of 7,501 on a glorious 60-degree Sunday afternoon at Klockner Stadium. It trailed 10-6 with 13:46 to play and had only junior goaltender John Galloway and his 18 marvelous saves standing in the way of a rout.

Eleven minutes later the score was 11-10 and the Orange (2-1) had the ball and a chance to tie. Make that two chances. Amazing. Again. It never happened, though, as an errant shot and a fatal turnover allowed the Cavs (4-0) to weather a storm few envisioned brewing and defeated Syracuse for the seventh times in the last eight meetings between the rivals.

Now, the last four meetings in this heated rivalry have all been decided by one goal.

Chris Daniello led Syracuse with two goals and three assists while Stephen Keogh and Jeremy Thompson each added a two goals. John Galloway stopped 18 shots in a busy day.

Don't expect the Orange to fall too far. Even Kessenich only drops them to No. 2 in his rankings. They'll get a chance to right the ship against Georgetown (2-1) on Saturday in the Dome.

A very ominous and mysterious Dave Rahme tells us more about the game.

Virginia defeats Syracuse

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I he flying in that photo? Way to give up the 5 hole haha.

Jim Boeheim for Coach of The Year

by ryanwk628 on Mar 8, 2010 1:00 PM EST reply actions

Woah Woah Woah

Quint actually didn’t drop us at all in his rankings? I’m shocked. I’m also shocked he dropped Hopkins at all. I am not shocked, however, that he put Maryland of all schools in 3rd over the likes of Notre Dame (properly ranked), and UNC (5th? Really?). They beat overrated Georgetown and overrated Duke and they’re better than those two schools? Eh, I needed my weekly humor from Quint anyway.

by RyanMcD29 on Mar 8, 2010 1:54 PM EST reply actions

I was there for the game.

A couple thoughts:

1. Going to a ’Cuse/UVA game is really confusing for my three year old daughter. EVERYONE was wearing orange and blue.

2. ’Cuse had a ton of trouble getting through their D.

3. Cody had an eerily quiet day.

4. UVA is lightening fast.

5. Despite the fact that I think most ‘Hoos fans are d-bags, they are a civil bunch. Even when the ’Cuse players’ families started a “Let’s go Orange” chant, the UVA faithful countered with a chorus of “Let’s go ’Hoos” that quickly overtook the insurgency. They made their point.

by oingemen on Mar 8, 2010 5:06 PM EST reply actions

This game is pretty much exactly like last year’s game. In the middle of the game I was thinking “oh shit, this is going to be a terrible year”. The orange couldn’t do anything. They couldn’t score, they couldn’t defend, they couldn’t win a face off, etc. Then they managed to pull it within one by the end of the game but couldn’t tie the game. But you still didn’t really feel good about the team in this game.

I have had some worries about this team. The middle of the game made me feel like a lot of them were possibly true. But the fact that this game went exactly the same way last year makes me feel like it may not be entirely predictive.

But we need John Lade back.

by Orange22 on Mar 8, 2010 6:31 PM EST reply actions