Syracuse offense sputters, shoots 31 percent from field in blowout loss to Duke
Syracuse fell to Duke 73-54, due in large part to SU's inability to score. The Orange shot just 31 percent from the field and 15 percent from 3. Read more »
Basketball
Winslow exposes Syracuse zone, goes off for game-high 23 points
Justise Winslow torched Syracuse for a game-high 23 points on Saturday night, including a 10-of-16 mark from the field. The Duke small forward exposed the SU 2-3 zone, leading the Blue Devils to a 19-point win over the Orange. Read more »
Syracuse defense can't contain Duke shooters in 73-54 loss at Cameron Indoor Stadium
Syracuse never came close in the second half, falling by 19 points to No. 4 Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday night. Read more »
Fast reaction: 3 quick observations from Syracuse's lopsided loss at No. 4 Duke
Syracuse couldn't keep pace with Duke in its road matchup on Saturday, falling 73-54 in a game that was never close in the second half. Read more »
Gallery: Syracuse falls to Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium
Check out the first-half sights from Syracuse-Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Read more »
Beat writers predict Syracuse to fall to No. 4 Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium
Syracuse will face Duke tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The beat writers predict a loss for the Orange on the road. Read more »
Peterson nails late jumpers as SU fights off Clemson to end regular season with road victory
As Clemson climbed nearly all the way back, Syracuse went to its leading scorer. Holding only a two-point lead with 1:45 left, Alexis Peterson stepped back at the top of the key and knocked down a crucial jump shot. Read more »
Gbinije prepares for return to raucous Cameron environment to face former Blue Devils team again
Gbinije still doesn’t play. Those were the words, chanted in a loud cadence by the Cameron Crazies, that Michael Gbinije heard as he warmed up in Cameron Indoor Stadium a year ago. Read more »
Tiara Butler sees limited minutes in SU career despite being highly recruited out of high school
Tiara Butler has scored just 22 points in her SU career. She came in to Syracuse, though, as one of the nation's most highly touted recruits. Read more »
Johnson breaks out for career night in SU's upset of Fighting Irish
B.J. Johnson has been itching for a breakout game since scoring 12 points in a win at Boston College on Feb. 11. It came in the Orange’s 65-60 win over No. 9 Notre Dame on Tuesday night, as the sophomore scored a game-high 19 points while shooting 7-of-13 from the field. Read more »
Kansas student manager Huey plays in actual game almost 3 years after 3rd collapsed lung
Kansas student manager Chris Huey has suffered three collapsed lungs, but just recently became the first student manager under head coach Bill Self to play in an actual game. Read more »
Butler looks to continue resurgence from field as postseason nears
Since shooting 2-of-21 from the field and 0-of-14 from 3 against North Carolina on Feb. 5, Brianna Butler has shot 39 percent from the field and 35 percent from 3 for the No. 23 Orange is one game away from the postseason. Read more »
Dougherty: Gutsy Cooney lifts Syracuse past No. 9 Notre Dame for statement victory
The Notre Dame crowd erupted as if Rakeem Christmas' fifth foul decided the game right then and there, even with the Orange up eight points and plenty of basketball to play. And if it weren’t for Trevor Cooney, it probably would have. Read more »
Niang thrives as undersized guard at D-II Simon Fraser after transfer from community college
After a fruitless high school career and a small stature led to no college interest, Sango Niang attended Chaffey (California) Community College and joined the basketball team. After two years at Chaffey, Niang transferred to Simon Fraser University to play D-II basketball. He’s now tied for 12th in the nation with 22.7 points per game and with one game to go in his senior season, is just 38 points shy of the 1,000-point mark. Read more »
Syracuse shocks No. 9 Notre Dame, holds on late in 65-60 road win
Trevor Cooney made a trio of late shots and B.J. Johnson added the exclamation point as Syracuse picked up its biggest win of the season against No. 9 Notre Dame. Read more »
Fast reaction: 3 quick observations from Syracuse's 5-point upset over Fighting Irish
Syracuse upset No. 9 Notre Dame on Tuesday night in South Bend, Indiana by a score of 65-60. Here are three quick observations from the game. Read more »
Beat writers predict Syracuse to fall at No. 9 Notre Dame
Syracuse looks to bounce back after its loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday. But our beat writers forecast the Orange to come up short against Notre Dame. Read more »
Point guard Peterson establishes herself as 1 of conference's best 1 season after playing limited minutes
Alexis Peterson has become one of the ACC's best point guards, just a season removed from being the third option for the Orange. Read more »
Cooney battles through sprain in back, heads into matchup with shoddy Notre Dame 3-point defense
SU guard Trevor Cooney has been fighting a sprain in his back recently and will have a chance to snap out of his shooting slump Tuesday night against Notre Dame's 3-point defense, which ranks worst in the ACC. Read more »
Boeheim: Cooney likely to face Notre Dame despite sprain in back
Trevor Cooney played his shortest outing of the conference season on Saturday, finishing on the bench despite the game against Pittsburgh being on the line. Read more »
DO scribes' quest for dynasty crumbles at hands of WAER fanboys in yearly Daryl's Dome skirmish
Oh, how the tribulation of defeasance has besieged. Three hundred and seventy-eight solar repetitions ago, the word slingers and visual cognoscente of The Daily Orange abrogated a tyrannical three-year interval during which the cantankerous WAER Mouth Breathers triumphed. The provenance of an embryonic dynasty rested in the constraints of the autonomous scribes. Read more »
Day grabs 18 rebounds, scores 15 points in Orange home win
Briana Day scored 15 points and grabbed 18 rebounds in an all-around dominant performance. She led Syracuse to a 68-54 win over Pittsburgh. Read more »
Syracuse allows 13 points in 2nd half, rides improved defense to 68-54 win over Pittsburgh
Syracuse allowed Pittsburgh to shoot better than 50 percent in the first half. After the break, though, the Panthers mustered just five made shots. Read more »
Syracuse-Duke to tip off at 7 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday
Syracuse and Duke will tip off at 7 p.m. next Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina, according to the schedule on Duke's website. The tipoff time has not been announced elsewhere. Read more »
