Syracuse Orange Season at a glance...

There weren't thousands of Syracuse fans in Atlanta this past weekend, there were thousands of Die Hard Cuse fans. The Orange was in the air. The sky was Orange, the clothes were definitely Orange, and former Cuse players mingled amongst us mere mortals. Perseverance was the definition of the Syracuse Orange season. Particularly after scoring 39 points against Georgetown just weeks before to round out their regular season. Optimistic fans were hoping for a reasonable seed for the Orange in the NCAA Tournament. 4 seemed fair ( I still think we deserved the 3 seed Marquette got, but the committee is in love with Duke, Carolina, Kentucky, and whoever else is popular that year so whatev). Cusenation was ready for another run. Seth Greenberg had Montana of course who we beat by 47 so lets not even talk about that. Cal gave us a tough test, but we took it home. Indiana Got destroyed in the round of 16, and Marquette was handled. Michigan who barely squeaked by Kansas, seemed no match similar to their Big Ten Foe Indiana. The Final Four was ours. Our first in 10 Years. The committee didn't screw us too bad this year, and CUSENATION knew it. We had Michigan where we wanted them. Seniors Brandon Triche and James Southerland decided not to show up, and neither did Michael Carter-Williams. Im not a real journalist so im not going to dig up their number but im gonna guess they didn't score 8 points combined, and that's being generous. Jerami Grant however, showed excellent hustle on the offensive and defensive glass. You'll get your time next year young one. Michigan couldn't really figure out the zone. lets be honest, they were hitting 30 footers in the first half and every one of their players were NBA JAM from downtown. surprised the nets didn't actually burn off. We had them where we wanted. Sure we were down 11. We got excellent looks. James Southerland couldn't make anything. Triche was a shell of himself even by his mediocre standards this year. MCW looked worse as a sophomore in high school, and CJ Fair was CJ Fair. We won't even go there. For people who thought the refs cost us this game, I will entertain it. But hear me out. I am pretty sure Michigan scored a hundred points after out offensive rebounding our defensive rebounding. That was the difference in the game. Period. Not our historic free throw shooting, our historically bad rebounding. Sure those calls were bad on triche and MCW at the end, and lets not blame trevor. hope our recruits can shoot next year. our D was good O was bad, again.