<div align="center"> Syracuse Orange 16-8</div> Syracuse is comming of a close battle with the UConn Huskies where they lost on a final three point shot. Donte Green was not a factor in that game being completely shut down by future first round draft pick, Hasheem Thabeet. Jonny Flynn chipped in 20 while Paul Harris had a game high 24 points to go along with 11 rebounds. <div align="center"> South Florida Bulls 10-13</div> South Florida put up a fight against the powerhouse Georgetown but fell short. Dominique Jones had a team high 15 points while Senoir Kentrell Gransberry had the task to gaurd Roy Hibbert holding him to 13 points while chipping in 13 as well. Keys to the game: For Florida to put up a challenge, they must shut down Donte Green. It's not often you can hold such a talented player down two games in a row. Kentrell will have that duty along with having to keep the Bulls in on the offense. The Bulls will need more scoring out of their gaurds but at the same time, shut down Flynn and Harris. Prediction: Syracuse 78 - South Florida 59
We already beat South Florida. We just have to take out Gransberry for the most part, like we did last game. We got him in foul trouble, which was great, and Arinze and Paul owned down low. We also gotta make sure they shoot a low percentage from 3 again. And to go along with that, we gotta own the boards again. Also, Donte's gotta get out of his funk, and make sure to go down low, in the post. You don't know how many time I've wanted to see him in the post with Jackson and Odgenat in with him, and he just sits on the outside. Syracuse should win this one. They came really close against two ranked opponents, so I feel confident about them right now. They're playing their best basketball (with the exception of Greene), and despite losing 8 games, and 5 in the conference, Syracuse fans should have a lot to feel good about.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pegs @ Feb 13 2008, 07:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Wow. Today is a shitty day for pegs to be watching basketball.</div> Syracuse avatars represent! All the cool posters have them.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Universe @ Feb 15 2008, 12:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I did not catch this game but how did we allow that many points?</div> They caught fire from 3 point range. As usual. The big thing that pissed me off, was at the end of the game: We were down three. USF had just missed a shot, and Paul Harris ran over to get the rebound. Then, one of the USF players came from behind and knocked the ball out of bounds. It was clearly the USF player who knocked it out of Paul's hands. So what do the refs do? CALL OUT OF BOUNDS ON SYRACUSE. USF BALL!! WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE. Syracuse went on to continue sucking as they did for most of the game, and seemed to take a step backwards from their previous few games. This was a HUGE disappointment, and Donte Green is really playing shitty now. He was completely off in the first half, and we couldn't recover after that. For the next few games, I recommend we only use Donte in the post, we completely turn Johnny into a scorer, and get easy buckets for Harris as much as possible.
