Syracuse Orange

Three weeks ago, Syracuse assistant coach Rob Murphy was looking over the statistics from the Orange's first week of practice when he noticed that Wesley Johnson, the team's promising 6-foot-7 transfer from Iowa...

NEW YORK -- There are two tattoos on the left bicep of Syracuse point guard Scoop Jardine. One is a basketball falling through a hoop. The second, inked in cursive letters, reads: "Best Kept Secret". "I still don't...

If there were any decent synonyms for madness that began with an "N," television execs might already have devised a title for college basketball's late-November bracket business. Alas, the hoop world is stuck with a...

The first point scored in the 2009-10 college basketball season was a free throw, by a senior (Deon Thompson) on a blueblood team (North Carolina). And what did that tell us? That we're in for a season dominated by...

Every major-conference team that I'd consider ranking in a preseason top 25 -- well, every team other than Mississippi State -- has made its 2009-10 schedule public, and I spent the last few days poring over them.