Syracuse gets South's No. 3 seed, to encounter WMU
Syracuse is form of a mystery team entering the NCAA competition.
The Orange (27-5) made the 3rd seed in the South and will open play simply in the future in Buffalo on Thursday against Western Michigan (23-9), the Mid-American Conference champion. But which Syracuse team will appear - the one that won 25 straight games to start the period and zoomed to No. 1 in the country for three weeks, or the one that has lost five of its last seven games?
Coach Jim Boeheim isn't really concerned. He's been right here in the past. Last year's team lost 4 of its final regular-season games and made it to the Final Four.
" I'm as certain in this group entering into this event right now as I was in 2012," Boeheim shared Sunday evening after the varieties were revealed." I believe (the gamers) are very certain. They won 27 games this year.".
Too much of the Orange's concern will certainly fall on senior ahead C.J. Exhibition, elected the preseason Atlantic Shore Conference gamer of the year and the Orange's leading scorer (16.7). If his mid-range game is clicking, Syracuse is a difficult group, however the Orange will certainly need more than Exhibition to make a run in the competition.
" We gain when we have good harmony," shared Boeheim, whose 52 career NCAA competition wins are fourth all-time in Division I." We need to have great harmony. That's how we can be effective.".
Fair scored a career-high 28 factors in a 91-89 overtime win over Battle each other on Feb. 1 in the Provider Dome and, getting in Friday evening's quarterfinal competition against North Carolina State in the ACC event, had racked up FIFTY factors on 21-of-38 capturing (55 percent) in the previous two games. Versus the Wolfpack, he finished 3 of 16 (18.8 percent) and missed out on both 3-pointers he attempted.
" He's such a trick for us," Boeheim claimed." He is among the steadiest gamers in the nation. He's a guy that we bank on.".
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The Orange's various other 4 losses in their initial season in the ACC were by 3 points, five points, six factors and 19 points. The latter was on the roadway versus league champ Virginia, which earned the No. 1 seed in the East, when forward Jerami Grant, Syracuse's leading rebounder (6.9) and third-leading scorer (12.2), was troubling with a bad back. Grant played only 13 minutes versus the Cavaliers and fell short to score while capturing just one rebound.
Then there's the battles of shooting guard Trevor Cooney.
After shooting HALF from behind the arc in the nonconference section of the timetable, he's fallen to 37.7 percent total (86 of 228), taking virtually half the group's 478 shots from deep. Given that matching a college record with 9 3-pointers that keyed a six-point win over Notre Dame, Cooney has hit simply 10 of 51 (19.6 percent) from lengthy array. That abysmal shooting has come during Syracuse's late-season swoon.
Cooney modified an ankle in the loss to North Carolina State but still gutted out 30 minutes on the flooring, though he completed 1 of 6. Boeheim mentioned Cooney would certainly be ready for the Broncos on Thursday, while Grant has actually played almost five mins of the past 2 video games.
The Orange's very first season in the ACC had actually been wonderful until the end. Freshman point guard Tyler Ennis went over expectations and Syracuse succeeded its initial 12 seminar games, the tighter the better it seemed.
Exhibition views no reason the Orange can't rekindle that miracle.
" I assume our self-confidence degree exists," Exhibition mentioned." Everybody on the team understands what we face entering the competition. You're guaranteed one game, and from there you have to combat to get the added video game, so we're visiting battle each game.
" We're right where we need to be. We're a No. 3 seed and we had an excellent year. We had a little losing streak towards completion of the period, yet on the whole the normal period has actually been a success. Entering the competition, we simply need to keep fighting and make that people continue push.".
This period marks the sixth time Syracuse has actually been seeded 3rd in the event, including 2003 when the Orange won the college's only championship game.
