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The road-tripping Orangemen are taking a lot of knocks for losing
to St. John's earlier in the week. The home Cardinals are taking a lot
of bows for beating Connecticut earlier in the week.
That makes this a nice, see-saw game.
Syracuse lost that game on the free-throw line when St. John's turned
it into slop-ball. The Orange hit only 28% from the free-throw line.
But they beat Louisville by 13 points last season hitting only 19 of 41
from the line (41%), when Syracuse had Gerry Mac and Louisville had
Taquan Dean -- each is gone now.
Syracuse is shooting 71% from the free-throw line for the season, so
the free throws will take care of themselves.
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino had his team play the same kind of
slop ball against UConn the other night and it worked. But it's a new
game, new refs, and it's Boeheim's 1,000th game on the Syracuse bench.
Syracuse has some sizable boys that have drawn a circle around 6-11
Louisville center David Padgett, who had his way with the young UConn
frontcourt. The Syracuse bigs are a lot more experienced back in that
2-3 zone. Louisville's group of freshman guards shoot many bricks
from the outside, and they do not have much experience attacking
zones as good as the one Syracuse plays.