C.J. Fair scored 12 of his game high 17 points in the second half to help No. 2 Syracuse pull away from Virginia Tech on Tuesday, moving the Orange to 15-0 with a 72-52 conference win on the road.
In front of a raucous crowd of over 26,000 fans, the No.4 Syracuse Orange got a resounding 69-52 win over No. 23 Indiana in a rematch of last year’s Sweet 16 matchup.
The ninth-ranked Syracuse men's basketball team pulled out a narrow 56-50 non-conference win against St. Francis (NY) at the Carrier Dome on Monday. In a week that saw #7 Michigan and #12 North Carolina fall at the hands of unranked opponents, the Orange managed to avoid their first non-conference home loss since December 2008.
Louisville 82, Michigan 76
Reserve guard Luke Hancock scored 22 points, including making all five of his 3-point shot attempts, as Louisville beat Michigan, 82-76, in the 2013 NCAA basketball championship in Atlanta on Monday night. The victory gave Cardinals' head coach Rick Pitino a second national title in addition to the one he won at Kentucky in 1996, making him the first coach to win a natio
The Syracuse Orange used a suffocating defense and selective shooting to upend the East Region's top seed to advance to the Elite 8 with a 61-50 victory over the Indiana Hoosiers.
Despite playing in what coach Jim Boeheim referred to as a road game, the Syracuse Orange were firing on all cylinders in the first half of their NCAA third round matchup against California.
After getting shutdown in the second half of the Big East Championship, Syracuse came flying out of the gate to open the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night, hammering No. 13-seed Montana 81-34.
The No. 17 Syracuse Orange snapped a three game slide with a 78-57 win over DePaul on Wednesday night at the Carrier Dome, the final Big East game at the dome, and the last home game for seniors James Southerland and Brandon Triche.