This Day in 'Cuse History - January 27th 1996
by CuseItUp on Jan 27, 2012 8:30 AM EST
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PrintHere we go Orange fans! Happy Friday and let's travel back to January 27th, 1996.
On this day the Syracuse Orange beat the Boston College Golden Eagles 88-73 in front of 24,600 fans at the Carrier Dome. SU improved to 14-5 on the year while a somewhat decent BC team led by Danya Abrams fell to 12-4.
'Cuse was led by Todd Burgan, who scored 23 points and grabbed 7 boards. John Wallace had a nice performance with 18 points, 10 rebounds, and 4 blocks. Lazarus Sims scored 18 and dished out 10 assists. And we can't forget Bobby Lazor who came off the bench to grab 1 rebound in 3 minutes.
This was actually a very good SU team that also featured Jason Cipolla, Otis Hill, and Marius Janulis. They were a pretty deep squad and had some balance and star power. They would wind up making a great run during March Madness all the way to the championship game, you may have heard about that. It's all about the Orange!
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Burgan one the more underrated players
Could play guard or forward, handle, score, rebound, play D. He was a great player.
Pretty sure the power went out at this game
As Sims was shooting a three. I think it was in the first half. It was pretty cool to have very little lighting in the Dome.
That was a good year in the BE
Everyone was sure the BE would have at least 1 Final Four team; just nobody really thought it would be Syracuse. Iverson, Kittles, Wallace, Ray Allen and Abrams. I remember the talk that that 5 could beat any other 5 in the country.
Plus, 96 had one of the greatest games I will ever remember, the Georgia game in the Sweet 16.
No way
any Cuse fan will ever forget that game. What a classic.
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
by PoetryInMoten on Jan 27, 2012 2:00 PM EST up reply actions
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