{"id":887,"date":"2006-12-06T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T09:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/06\/syracuseoklahoma-state\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T09:59:46","slug":"syracuseoklahoma-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/06\/syracuseoklahoma-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse-Oklahoma State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syracuse, ranked #21 according to ESPN, lost by three<\/a> to #24 Oklahoma State on Tuesday night. This comes on the heels of a loss to #17 Wichita State (who climbed to #10 in this week’s rankings).<\/p>\n

That’s what happens when you play ranked teams in December. I’m not sure how they managed to get Jim Boeheim to agree to these games– maybe they had him sign a vague and deceptive agreement to appear, so he thought he was getting to play Sacha Baron Cohen…<\/p>\n

This was a pretty ugly game all the way around, from the play on the court, to the call on tv. The game was part of the “Jimmy V Classic,” raising money for cancer research, and Dick Vitale did it as half basketball game, and half telethon. Well, really, it was half rambling discourse about things that may or may not have been related to the actual game, with the other half divided evenly between sob stories about people with cancer, and Jim Valvano haigography.<\/p>\n

If this sounds like it was harder to listen to than even a normal Dick Vitale broadcast, well, you’re right.<\/p>\n

As for the game itself… Well, really, the less said the better. Oklahoma State deserved to win by virtue of being less incompetent than Syracuse, but it wasn’t a high bar to clear. The Orange threw up bad shots, threw terrible passes, couldn’t rebound worth a damn, and just generally failed to hustle– and yet, they were in it until the final seconds. Oklahoma State hustled, but also turned the ball over approximately a million times, looking utterly baffled whenever Syracuse managed to rouse themselves to play defense.<\/p>\n

What a mess. And Vitale to boot. Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syracuse, ranked #21 according to ESPN, lost by three to #24 Oklahoma State on Tuesday night. This comes on the heels of a loss to #17 Wichita State (who climbed to #10 in this week’s rankings). That’s what happens when you play ranked teams in December. I’m not sure how they managed to get Jim… Continue reading Syracuse-Oklahoma State<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}