With the 2012-13 NBA season ready to tip off Tuesday night, TNIAAM will take a periodic look at how former Syracuse Orange basketball players are faring in the league.

When the Syracuse Orange defeated the South Florida Bulls 37-36 on Saturday, they did a couple things that this program hasn't done in a while. And by doing so, they might, MIGHT, have finally pushed this program back down that road...

They won the game but the question of whether or not Syracuse should have bothered going for two in the end is a question worth asking.

The Syracuse men's cross country team and the women's field hockey team both won Big East titles over the weekend.

The Syracuse Orange completed a thrilling comeback Saturday night, the biggest in school history, to defeat the South Florida Bulls 37-36 in Tampa. Here are the quotes to prove it:

The Syracuse Orange looked terrible before they looked amazing before they looked terrible before they looked amazing and in the end they somehow pulled it out of their asses. I'm going to faint now.

Unfortunately the Syracuse Orange aren't playing in a Friday night this week. They do, however, get a chance to beat a team in a very winnable game when they line up to take on the South Florida Bulls at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday.

Despite concerns, Tampa should be relatively dry for tonight's Syracuse-USF game.

A year removed from opening the season as the No. 5 team in the nation according to the AP Poll, the Syracuse Orange will open as the No. 9 team in all the land.

"I knew I could get more out of the players or felt I could get more out of the players by being more . . . showed my intensity, which I have quite a bit of," Marrone said. "If I started to show that more I thought I could get better results from the