Syracuse Daily Links - Andy Rautins Waived By Mavs

by Sean Keeley on Dec 15, 2011 3:38 PM EST

Dallas Mavericks waive former Syracuse star Andy Rautins | syracuse.com
Rautins was acquired along with a 2012 second-round draft pick from Washington, while New York got Chandler and the draft rights to Ahmad Nivins and Giorgos Printezis from Dallas.

Mark Titus Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings on Syracuse, Indiana-Kentucky, and the rest of the week in college basketball - Grantland
A good deal of college basketball fans believe that Syracuse didn't really earn its no. 1 ranking in the AP and coaches' polls, and instead feel that the Orange are ranked first simply because Kentucky and Ohio State lost. Those fans think that way because they are stupid. The truth is that the Orange do deserve the top ranking.

COLLEGE BAKSETBALL SNAPSHOT: Does Syracuse really deserve to be No. 1? " Sports " News and Tribune
In my season preview, I argued that Syracuse was one of five teams in the country with a chance to win a national championship. The Orange are experienced and talented, but there is no case that can be made that they should be No. 1.

Basketball Prospectus | Cuse at the Peak
That being said, the question isn't simply how tough your schedule's been, but also how well have you played against that schedule? And the fact of the matter is Boeheim's team has played exceptionally well against their relatively easy schedule, scoring 1.16 points per possession and allowing just 0.83.

Syracuse Orange Basketball - Evaluating Syracuse's Needs for Class of 2013
There's a glaring need for a guard or two based on only having three returning that year. There are a few targets to keep an eye on.

Orange::44: Orange::44's Bowl Pick'em
It's Bowl time again for college football. While Syracuse isn't attending, that means we can't celebrate the litany of meaningless but fun college football matchups, leading up to a computer deciding the two best teams in America playing for a giant crystal football.

Davis/Lang vs. SU/Boeheim: The Fizz’s Solution to the Defamation Lawsuit : Orange Fizz
The irony of course is that Davis and Lang are looking for money over accusations they were looking for money.

Orange Goes Boom: Perkins Coach Tells Fizz Syracuse Out of RB’s Final 5 : Orange Fizz
"He’s narrowed it down to basically his top five. He’s kind of teetering with maybe switching one or two of them for like a Michigan or something. Right now I’d say (Syracuse is out of it)."

Syracuse top ranking restores pride | The Juice Online
True, the journalist in me wants to point out the obvious–the Orange still haven’t been tested, only rose to No. 1 due to two other teams losing tough games, and going into North Carolina State on Saturday is a disaster waiting to happen. But I’m still riding the No. 1 high as a fan, so I’ll refrain. And I needed this. We all needed this.

Bernie Fine Scandal: The Drama Continues to Confuse All | Bleacher Report
The fact that Gloria Allred took this case and now throws a huge plot twist into a drama that looked dead a few weeks ago.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a theme song. I think.

Th Veep talks about Ernie Davis and his Heisman Trophy at the recent event honoring #44 (watch Part II here).

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So SU shouldn't be #1

They should be 6th? Behind Baylor and Missouri? What a choad.

by boriscleto on Dec 15, 2011 4:07 PM EST reply actions

Look at who Baylor has played:

Nov 11 Texas Southern Won 77-57 1-0
Nov 13 Jackson St. Won 92-59 2-0
Nov 15 San Diego St. Won 77-67 3-0
Nov 22 S.C. State Won 70-50 4-0
Nov 23 UT-Arlington Won 75-65 5-0
Nov 29 Prairie View Won 90-54 6-0
Dec 4 @Northwestern Won 69-41 7-0
Dec 14 Bethune-Cookman Won 69-42 8-0

San Diego State was great last year (as in last year). And one of these seasons Northwestern will make the Big Dance.

Seriously, I can handle people saying our schedule does not matchup with Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, etc… but not Butler.

And Missouri?

Nov 11 SE Missouri St. Won 83-68 1-0
Nov 14 Mercer Won 81-63 2-0
Nov 17 Niagara Won 83-52 3-0
Nov 21 Notre Dame Won 87-58 4-0
Nov 22 California Won 92-53 5-0
Nov 27 Binghamton Won 88-59 6-0
Dec 2 N´western St. Won 90-56 7-0
Dec 6 Villanova Won 81-71 8-0
Dec 10 Navy Won 84-59 9-0

Not exactly murderer’s row either. I think Florida is better than Villanova, Stanford is equal to Cal, and Va Tech is better than ND.

So I call BS.

Dictated, but not read.

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by ezcuse on Dec 15, 2011 5:09 PM EST up reply actions

before we are too hard on Greg Mengelt, let’s remember based on that bio pic it’s got to be hard enough to be Greg Mengelt.

by The Invisible Swordsman on Dec 15, 2011 5:27 PM EST reply actions

All I could think of when I saw the pic was

“Hey, where’d you get the Pete Rose haircut.”

by andre78m on Dec 15, 2011 8:22 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

This week, 28 of the 30 the coaches who vote in the ESPN/USA Today poll, and 51 of 65 of the Associated Press members voted Syracuse as their No. 1 team in the country.

Not one of them believes that Syracuse has the best team in the country, and the Orange certainly doesn’t have college basketball’s best resume.

I’m glad you’ve interviewed all of them and have figured out what they think.

“Indiana has a better win on their resume”- Came at home, doesn’t count. And look at Indiana’s schedule past that- incredibly laughable. Yet they have the resume to be top-10. Give me a break.

I can deal with Ohio State and Kentucky ahead of us. Hell, maybe even Marquette. But UNC? A team that lost to UNLV? You have to be kidding me.

I can’t believe these people get paid for this stuff.

by cuse2012 on Dec 15, 2011 5:32 PM EST reply actions

anybody have any guesses what happens to Rautins?

Clippers could use a shooting guard, but it sounds like they want to start Chauncey at the 2, and I think they are going to be focused on improving their frontcourt depth since they have a million guards already.

Think anyone will be interested in Andy?

by 49982072 on Dec 15, 2011 5:36 PM EST reply actions

Every year there's just some meme about Cuse basketball

and this year it’s apparently that we played a weak schedule. I’m sick of it. It’s just the laziest effing thing, to regurgitate whatever company line ESPN’s drones are spewing.

It's the most bullshit thing I've seen in thirty years.

by Girardi Party on Dec 16, 2011 6:44 AM EST reply actions