Orange Fizz
Hoops
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423What Happens If Judah Mintz Stays or Leaves?
The offseason has nearly trumped the end of season storylines that continue to surface for ‘Cuse men’s hoops. A four-game losing stretch,...
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2555 Biggest Takeaways from Day 1 of March Madness
We’re just 16 games into the tourney but there’s already been some headlines. Here’s the biggest. 5) Pressure bursts tourney pipes. These aren’t...
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265Which ACC Team Makes a Deep March Run?
March Madness starts today. Brackets will be busted, Cinderella runs started and a champion crowned. Will that winner be from the ACC?...
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340Syracuse Basketball Has Momentum Again
It’s been a long week for the Syracuse men’s basketball program. Just seven days ago, the Orange were taking on Wake Forest...
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6062022-23 Syracuse Basketball: Another Season of Inches
While the record wasn’t quite as bad as last season’s, Syracuse’s story in both of its last two campaigns was a similar...
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406Red Is The New Orange: Autry Officially Succeeds Boeheim
As real and weird as it may or may not feel, now it’s official. On Friday morning, the torch was officially passed...
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613What Happens to Gerry McNamara?
The bombshell that Jim Boeheim will not be returning as Syracuse’s head coach and associate head coach Adrian Autry is taking over,...
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386The Final Moments Of Jim Boeheim’s Tenure Weren’t Like the Rest
Brash. Stubborn. All-knowing. Words used to describe Jim Boeheim throughout his 47-year head coaching career at Syracuse. He built the program from...
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390Where Were You When… Team Fizz Recalls The Moment Boeheim Retired
IAN: I and the rest of the WAER Sports contingent had just returned to our hotel from the Greensboro Coliseum. I was...
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495Jim Boeheim Retires in the Most Jim Boeheim Way Possible
After nearly half a century at the helm of Syracuse basketball this should have been a sweet, honorable ride into the Central...
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305Greensboro Heartbreak: Wake Forest Ends Syracuse’s Season (And Maybe Boeheim’s Career) At The Buzzer
For the second time in three seasons, late-game magic has been the downfall of Syracuse Men’s Basketball at the ACC Tournament. Two...
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369Did Judah Mintz Have a Good Case For ACC Rookie of the Year?
In just a few days’ time, Syracuse men’s hoops’ 2022-23 season will probably be over, barring an eleventh-hour NIT pity bid. If...
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286What Can We Make of KenPom’s ACC Tournament Projections?
It’s been a strange ACC basketball season so far. Teams like Duke and North Carolina possess incredible high-end talent that hasn’t lived...
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291Syracuse Scores Feel-Good Win Over Wake Forest, 72-63
After a week spent hyping up Saturday’s festivities, Syracuse men’s basketball (17-14, 10-10 ACC) made sure it didn’t ruin its own party...
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549Syracuse’s Top 2 Outside Coaching Candidates
After the season ended last year, we did a multi-week series profiling who Syracuse’s next coach could be. It started with current...
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5581Competitiveness is Jim Boeheim’s Best Quality. It’s Driven Syracuse to the Brink
After another demoralizing performance by Syracuse against Georgia Tech on Tuesday night, it’s time for everyone to look in the mirror. Players,...
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503Syracuse Hoops Must Change To Survive, Or Else
For a particular beleaguered, has-been college basketball power, February 2023 was a no-good, very bad month. It began with public admonishment aimed...
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337It Can Always Get Worse… Syracuse Embarrassed by GT
In 1859, Charles Darwin came up with the theory of natural selection. It’s a rather simple idea. Certain species are born with...
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313This is Not the January Version of Georgia Tech
Syracuse Basketball returns home for its final two regular season games of the season. The Orange (16-13, 9-9) are still trying to...
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381The Sweet 16 Run in 2021 May Have Been a Net Negative
The old saying “defense wins championships” is a popular one, and it’s something Syracuse Men’s Basketball held dear on its run to...
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286Syracuse Drops Third Straight in 99-82 Loss to Pittsburgh
After a positive first half, at least compared to the last two games, SU collapsed in the second half in a 99-82...
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284Mintz’s Frosh Season is Comparable to Melo’s
Syracuse’s season is coming to a close very soon unless there’s an NIT or CBI invitation. In the wake of this year’s...
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404The End is Going to be Ugly for Jim Boeheim
A couple of months ago, we at The Fizz wrote a piece about how the end was near for Jim Boeheim, and...
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443Syracuse Looks Lifeless in 91-73 Loss to Clemson
After an embarrassing loss to Duke over the weekend, it’s no secret that every game onward was essentially a must-win. Leg one...
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303The Season of Experimentation Starts Now
Congratulations to the Duke Blue Devils for finally ushering Syracuse into the next stage of its season. The Orange have four games...
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367Syracuse Has Officially Hit Rock Bottom
If you walked around SU’s campus on Saturday afternoon, there was a palpable buzz in the atmosphere. The Orange were on a...
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542Syracuse-Duke is Not a Rivalry, and Never Will Be
There are a bajillion adjectives you could use to describe yesterday’s game, and none of them are kind to Syracuse. A letdown....
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313ESPN’s Vitale: Mintz Should Play Second Year at SU
On the off chance that anyone affiliated with Duke men’s basketball regards Syracuse to be a worthy rival, yesterday’s 77-55 throttling at...
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339Fizz Report Card: Duke Destroys Syracuse
Joe Girard: B There’s nobody in college basketball that’s a more dangerous shooter when the time of the game is meaningless than...
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318Fallen Blue Bloods: Syracuse vs. Duke Predictions
The Orange will host the Blue Devils at 6 pm on Saturday, a game with March implications televised on ESPN. While the...
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295Syracuse Must Play an “A” Game to Beat Duke
The most one-sided rivalry in the ACC returns to Central New York this weekend, as Duke, whose fans do not care much...
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337Jesse Edwards is Re-Introducing Himself Down the Stretch
Syracuse is once again making it interesting in the closing weeks of the season. The Orange (16-10, 9-6 ACC) have won three...
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349Judah Mintz is the Reason Syracuse is in Position to be in Position
Each game has built on the previous one. It’s like a step ladder, and Judah Mintz continues to take one, sometimes two...
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292Fizz Report Card: Syracuse Sneaks Past No. 23 NC State 75-72
When Jesse Edwards of all people hit a three-pointer, you thought to yourself “there is no possible way Syracuse will lose this...
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Would An NIT Berth Be A “Successful” Season?
After the worst season in the Jim Boeheim era last year, expectations among fans and media members weren’t nearly as high as...
