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SYRACUSE 80, 7 WASHINGTON 59

MAGGIE MORRISON (4) walks off the court after Syracuse’s 80-59 win over seventh-seeded Washington. The Orange will face Syracuse-native Breanna Stewart and Connecticut in the NCAA championship game on Tuesday. Morrison and Syracuse’s bench outscored Washington’s bench by 20 points on Sunday and played a large part in the win.

The trip to the national championship game is Syracuse’s first-ever. evan jenkins staff photographer

‘ONE MORE’

Orange to make its first-ever trip to national championship game

By Jon Mettus digital editor

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NDIANAPOLIS — Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman turned to the Syracuse fans behind the bench and wagged one finger in the air.

“One more,” he said. “One more,” as a smiled spread across his face.

Then he turned to his bench and said the same thing to each one of his players.

“Just one more game,” Hillsman said at the

postgame press conference. “That’s it … and we’re really excited about it.”

Three years ago Syracuse didn’t have an NCAA tournament win to its name. Even prior to this year, the Orange hadn’t made it out of the second round. This season: first time hosting tournament games, first Sweet 16, first Final Four and now first NCAA title game appearance.

Fourth-seeded Syracuse (30-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) topped seventh-seeded Washington (26-11, 11-7 Pac-12), 80-59, in the Final Four at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on

Sunday night to advance to the national championship game.

SU’s last challenge this year will be against Connecticut — a team that hasn’t lost in the NCAA tournament in the last 3 seasons or in 37 games this year. The Orange’s chance at the unthinkable will come on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.

“Every year at media day he says the same thing and we believe the same thing that we’re going to win the national championship and we’re going to compete for the national championship,” see washington page 12

block party

The Chainsmokers, Chance The Rapper to play Block Party

By Jacob Gedetsis social media director

DJ duo The Chainsmokers and Chicago-based hip-hop artist Chance The Rapper will co-headline this year’s Block Party, University Union announced Sunday.

Alternative artist Jon Bellion

will open the show. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 29, in the Carrier Dome. Both The Chainsmokers and Chance The Rapper have performed at UUsponsored events in the past. The Chainsmokers headlined Mayfest in the spring of 2013 and Chance The Rapper performed in front of a sold-

out crowd during a Bandersnatch Concert in the fall of the same year.

There will be presale tickets available for full-time Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students from Monday at 10 a.m. to Wednesday at 11:45 p.m. Floor

tickets cost $25 and general admission seats cost $20, according to a UU press release.

The general public price is $34.

All tickets will be sold online via Ticketmaster. All tickets must be picked up at the Ticket Booth outside Gate E of the Carrier Dome starting April 18 at 10 a.m., accord-

ing to the release.

Block Party follows Mayfest, a daylong event in Walnut Park.

The headliner for Mayfest has yet to be announced.

The Chainsmokers have strong New York roots: the duo is made up of SU alumnus Drew Taggart and New see block

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Junior to honor Woodstock in senior thesis

By Gabrielle Hughes staff writer

A lifelong devotion to music was inevitable for Liz Stantley, who was raised listening to rock. The Southern California native is taking her love for music festivals to the next level by creating a photo book honoring the 50th anniversary of Woodstock.

Stantley said her first festival experience at Coachella was like crossing the threshold into a worry-free world of complete freedom. Since then, the junior art photography major has attended countless concerts and worked numerous festivals. She said she thinks attending live concerts allows people to become free spirits and witness the band come to life.

“There’s this aura of wonder that comes with going to a live show,” Stantley said. “Be adventurous. So many people have wonderful accidents, stumbling upon noname acts that soon develop into their next favorite band.”

Picking up her friends from class and driving five hours to see a live performance is well worth the journey, she said. But during a typical week, Stantley satiates her music cravings by frequenting local jam band spots like Funk ‘N Waffles, the F-Shed and the Westcott Theatre.

Stantley said that thanks to Syracuse’s large jam band following, a

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LIZ STANTLEY is a big fan of jam bands and music festivals. Because of this love of hers, she has decided to honor Woodstock’s 50th anniversary for her senior thesis. prince dudley staff photographer

lot of dynamic performers come through those venues.

Jam bands originated in the 1960s with The Grateful Dead and carried on through the Allman Brothers Band, according to Stantley. She characterized a jam band as a group of extremely talented musicians exploring the combination of instruments and thriving off of each other’s improvisations. This makes each version of a song unique.

“Most fans know the date and place where their favorite rendition of a song was played,” Stantley said.

Stantley credits festivals as honing some of the most sublime experiences she has had on this Earth. The idea that among a sea of strangers, all of you are linked by one factor — the music — is incredible, Stantley said.

There is still one experience Stantley wishes to have more than

anything: Woodstock. After extensive research, visiting the grounds and seeing the museum, Stantley has decided to craft an archivestyle photo book as her senior thesis to be released in 2019.

By conducting interviews and researching materials at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Stantley is discovering a whole new culture within Woodstock. ghhughes@syr.edu

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Partners in crime The D.O.’s interactive crime map shows a round-up of criminal activity that happened near Syracuse University this week.

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Week in news The D.O. News Department compiled a list of the biggest Syracuse University and Syracuse news stories from last week.

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Alcohol in history Read about Syracuse University’s history with on-campus alcohol consumption, from its inception as a dry, Methodist university to today.

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2016 ncaa tournament

Students celebrate SU win

By Brigid Kennedy asst. copy editor

The Syracuse Police Department said it does not have a specific policy to deal with large parties at Castle Court. SPD monitors the parties at Castle Court and only intervenes if there is a cause for concern.

zach barlow asst. photo editor

A sobering reality

Castle Court parties roll on despite ‘ban’ Editor’s Note: Over the past month, The Daily Orange has collaborated with the Department of Newspaper and Online Journalism at Syracuse University on a series of stories relating to alcohol culture on the SU campus.

Multiple stories will appear in The D.O. in the coming days.

By Justin Mattingly managing editor

Hours before a recent Syracuse basketball game, the parking lot to Castle Court cleared out and a pickup truck pulled in. The driver killed the engine, as a group of people

strode up to the truck. Speedily and efficiently, they unloaded significant amounts of alcohol — a party in the making on a big athletic day.

2 weeks The amount of time between when The Princeton Review ranked SU the No. 1 party school in the country and the initial ban on parties at Castle Court

A bit later, two men, one older and one younger, and both clad in Syracuse apparel, joined in the fun with a 12-­­pack of Coors Light in hand.

“Is this allowed?” the older man asked. The younger one told him not to worry: “We could get shut down, but we’ll just move elsewhere.”

The party went on, breaking up hours later — voluntarily.

It’s been about a year and a half after parking lot parties at the apartment complex were banned. Yet over the past five weeks, the famed location of the Syracuse University party scene has re­emerged as a place where hundreds crowd shoulder-­to-­ shoulder — with beer cans stacked on tables — to celebrate Syracuse basketball games. The operators of Castle say the ban remains in place, but their policy has been undercut

by a police force that has shown little willingness to enforce it.

Andrea Cornell, the assistant general manager at Campus Hill, which operates Castle Court, said that that while the landlords do all they can to prevent the parties, “it’s so known for it now so it’s hard to stop it.”

“They’re not allowed at all,” she said.

The ban took effect in August 2014 about two weeks after The Princeton Review named the university the No. 1 party school in the United States. Campus Hill sent an email to Castle Court residents announcing the ban. see castle

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2016 ncaa tournament

Syracuse fans on Marshall Street react to loss

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. copy editor

A gray sky stretched over the city of Syracuse as fans were pouring into bars and restaurants on Marshall Street Saturday night.

By 7 p.m. powdery snow, blown by piercing wind reminiscent of Syracuse’s winter, was falling on the street and the temperature dropped to the low 40s.

Even though some fans put their hands in their pockets and walked faster to get to their destination, the weather itself did not prevent them from coming out and watching the Orange challenge

No.1 seed North Carolina in the Final Four. The Orange ultimately ended up losing that challenge, though, at 83-66.

On Marshall Street, foot traffic increased as time went by.

Hundreds of people — most of them wearing orange apparel — went back and forth along the street where paper plates and beer cans were left sporadically.

A line to get inside Chuck’s Cafe spilled out onto a pedestrian sidewalk on South Crouse Avenue at one point.

“If you are a Syracuse fan, there’s only one place that you wanna be outside of the Carrier

Dome to watch Syracuse play in the tournament and that’s Marshall Street,” said David Menkin, who was standing outside Fagean’s Cafe and Pub. He added that people don’t get to see a scene like this anywhere else but Marshall Street.

The Syracuse Police Department shut down Marshall Street and parts of South Crouse Avenue to avoid potential mayhem. Cars — except patrol cars and delivery vehicles — were not allowed to go through, and parked cars on the street were towed.

Once the game started, foot traffic waned on the street and the

calmness returned there.

In return, Syracuse fans inside Varsity Pizza erupted with cheers and stood up with both fists up in the air as SU scored.

Libby Weber, a sophomore music industry major, showed up at the restaurant around 7:30 p.m. with her friends. Weber said she decided to come out because she liked the atmosphere of being around a crowd of fans.

“The atmosphere of the campus today in general was just really intense, and it’s cool to be in a crowd of people that are just so hyped for the game,” Weber said. see marshall

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Thirty students were lined up in Schine Student Center.

They donned official Syracuse University garb. They stood next to their friends and chatted to pass the time. It was reminiscent of the scene in Schine just a few days ago, when Orange fans lined up to score one of the coveted seats on a bus ride to Indianapolis, the site of the women’s Final Four. A lot was the same.

Except this time, they were standing in line for nachos.

Upward of 45 Syracuse students and fans gathered in Schine Dining Center on Sunday night to watch the SU women’s basketball team take on the University of Washington at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The free event was sponsored by Student Centers and Programming Services.

“Last night was … a great game, but it was a disappointing loss. So I wanted to make sure that the women get enough cheer and the energy and the effort that we put (into the men’s game),” said Teresa Lin, a junior television, radio and film major who attended the watch party. see schine page 8

crime briefs Here is a round-up of criminal activity that happened near campus this week, according to police bulletins.

PETIT LARCENY A Syracuse man, 50, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny, according to a police bulletin. when: Saturday at 6:50 p.m. where: 100 block of College Place DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED A Syracuse man, 42, was arrested on the charges of driving while intoxicated, driving while intoxicated with a blood alcohol content greater than .08 percent, aggravated DWI and failure to maintain control of a motor vehicle. when: Thursday at 10:39 p.m. where: 200 block of Ostrom Ave. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE A Syracuse man, 40, was arrested on the charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and no signal. when: Sunday where: 100 block of E. Colvin St. —Compiled by Alexa Torrens, news editor, atorrens@syr.edu See dailyorange.com for our interactive crime map.

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Plan to build another central New York casino a poor gamble

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s Turning Stone Casino goes all in with the announcement of 300 new hires, the embattled Oneida Indian Nation (OIN) preps for a high-stakes game with a rival that could unravel stability in the region.

The Oneida Indian Nation plans to carry out the full-time hires over the course of the next three months to supplement Turning Stone’s nearly 4,500 existing employees in Verona, New York.

The move comes as a response to an uptake of business for the casino as it prepares to open a new retail wing. But a larger showdown being played out with the state threatens to jeopardize the prosperity of the casino as well as its employees.

The OIN has been fighting off the state’s repeated attempts since 2013 to establish a new casino just outside the exclusivity zone granted to the Nation.

But with a $50 million licensing fee paid to the state and the ongoing construction of the del Lago Resort & Casino, it seems that the conclusion of the Oneida gambling monopoly in the region is imminent.

Whether the state is merely trying to hurt the Nation in an attempt to boost its share of the taxes or actually create another productive business in the area is unknown.

And while there is no problem in breaking the OIN’s chokehold on gambling in the central New York region, the inevitable juggling of jobs and revenue between the two businesses will have little to no positive effects due to the inability to create a more

THEO HORN

IT’S NOT PERSONAL, IT’S BUSINESS competitive market.

The feud between the Nation and the state started when Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked the OIN and other Native American groups to share their revenue with the state economy in 2013, contrary to a deal made in 1993 with former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Though the initial agreement was a good move at the time, it has aged poorly and New York should play the hand it’s been dealt rather than trying to alter the past to avoid seeming spiteful and harming future business ventures.

The most recent lawsuit filed by the OIN to stop the del Lago casino claims that the selection process that the New York State Gambling Commission used to select the construction site was subjective.

Though this lawsuit will likely be thrown out, as the previous six against the project have, it’s merely a stall tactic to bleed more time and money out of del Lago and the state.

If a business wants to come along and challenge the Oneida’s monopoly on the region, they are welcome to try to compete with the more than favorable conditions the OIN receives. In fact, it would help the region considerably if some of the revenue generated by the casino was distributed into public funds.

But it is not in the state’s best interest to give the impression that it is backing efforts against the OIN considering the venture will create no additional revenue and little increase in jobs.

The cost of the licensing fee paid by del Lago Resort & Casino to New York state

There’s a limit

to the amount of

entertainment a person

needs. Putting more

casinos in the area

will not somehow give

people more money

to spend at casinos.

Peter Howe

professor of economics in assistant

the maxwell school of citizenship and public affairs at syracuse university

Peter Howe, an assistant professor of economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, cited one of the many problems that creating a new casino in the region poses.

$50 million

“There’s a limit to the amount of entertainment a person needs,” said Howe.

“Putting more casinos in the area will not somehow give people more money to spend at casinos.”

Creating a new casino will overlap significantly with the jobs and service already provided by Turning Stone. It’s likely that the massive casino, which has existed in the market for decades, will win out and eliminate the other from the game. But in the process, many jobs may be recycled within the region only to be lost later to help drive profit.

“Yes, I feel there will be significant crossover of jobs between the two casinos, especially on the specialized floor jobs,” said Howe. “I think there’s going to be a lot of back and forth, which probably won’t help the workers or the local economy.”

The setup of a new casino would arguably destabilize the OIN monopoly and allow other casinos to expand into the region to create more business. But because the market and jobs that already exist in the region will just be divided up among two players instead of one with no guarantee of success, this runs into a problem of oversaturation.

Surely New York, though justified in desiring that the Nation shares revenue, has more prudent investment strategies than ones based on vindication.

Theo Horn is a sophomore political science and public policy dual major.

His column appears weekly. He can be reached at tahorn@syr.edu.

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Bringing Madeleine Albright to SU lecture ‘mocks’ ethics Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state under the Clinton administration delivering the Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility in Hendricks Chapel on April 5 mocks and contradicts the meaning of ethics. All the people of Syracuse should oppose her presence. During her tenure as the United States’ representative to the United Nations and as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 she oversaw the economic sanctions of Iraq which created the conditions for millions to die, and the NATO bombing of Kosovo which killed 2,000 civilians, including 80 children.

In an interview with 60 minutes in May of 1996, Albright stated that the “price was worth it” that 500,000 Iraqi babies died from U.N. economic sanctions. Although she did not initiate the sanctions, she played a major role in maintaining them in her position within the U.N. In regards to NATO’s war and bombing of former Yugoslavia, Albright was such a strong proponent of the bombing that it was often termed by many as “Madeleine’s War’. Albright profited immensely from NATO’s airstrikes on Kosovo. Her company, Albright Capital Management sought to buy up Kosovo’s highly prosperous state telecommunications industry. Recently during a book signing event in Prague she called protesters “disgusting Serbs.” Before

the attacks on Yugoslavia, the country was a shining example of multinational unity. The bombing encouraged nationalist and ethnic divisions and hatred in the region.

The Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship, and Public Responsibility is organized

by Syracuse University’s Campbell Public Affairs Institute. What does the invitation for Albright to come speak say about this institute, about the Maxwell School, and Syracuse University in general? Does the university support the systematic killing of 500,000 Iraqi babies that was a consequence of U.S./U.N. sanctions supported and perpetuated by Albright? The bombing of Kosovo which destroyed hospitals and schools? The irony of her being invited to speak is real.

Having Albright speak on campus gives Syracuse University a bad name. It says that the University supports war criminals!

There will be a rally/ protest outside Hendricks Chapel at 2:30 p.m. on the day of her speech, organized by the Syracuse chapter of the ANSWER Coalition, and other student-led organizations to say that war criminals, imperialists and racists are not welcome to Syracuse. If you think Albright’s speech is an absurd insult to the concepts of ‘ethics’ and ‘public citizenship,’ Join us!

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Support of SU women’s teams falls flat

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ur college years consist of learning how we approach the world, growing as individuals and learning not to burn ramen noodles. But Syracuse University is still struggling to reinforce to its students that women’s sports are, in fact, sports.

The fact that the women’s basketball team’s historic 80-59 win over Washington Sunday was still overshadowed by the men’s disappointing loss to North Carolina the night before demonstrates the unequal playing field between genders at SU. Despite being the first women’s basketball team in university history to make it to the Elite Eight, Final Four and now national championship game, a lack of visible support at SU has resulted in a campus cultural issue in which it is made clear that women’s teams are not worth following. Rather than feed into the status quo, SU should set the example as a prominent institution to its student body through structural changes to show support for all teams, regardless of gender.

The generally apathetic reaction can’t be chalked up to the men’s team playing a better game, considering that the women’s team paved its way to the tournament with postseason wins against Army, South Carolina and Tennessee. Perhaps the problem is forgotten that basketball stopped being a man’s sport in the late 1800s, paired with the misconception that women are physically weaker and unable to perform athletically in the same way a man could.

I think Alexis Peterson, Brittney Sykes and Brianna Butler would beg to differ with this sexist ideal. Regardless of which team is on the court, basketball involves two teams of five players trying to score points by throwing the ball through the rim at each end of a rectangular court.

It’s the same game, so it’s

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clear that the lack of enthusiasm does not stem from a diminishing interest in the sport, but rather the players themselves. And it’s this same misogynistic mentality that maintains the idea that women — whether they are athletes or coaches — should stay off the court.

Jim Boeheim is practically a god in the Syracuse community, but it seems that there hasn’t ever been a woman who is his equivalent. At SU, coaches who are women are few and far between.

At this time, SU employs only one woman head coach across its 18 men and women’s teams. And it is this disparity that contributes to the student body’s inability to recognize talent and ability among women who are involved in athletics.

This inequality is not specific to the women’s basketball team.

The SU women’s hockey team currently practices in a recreational ice pavilion owned by the Department of Recreation Services. As a Division I program, SU’s unwillingness to improve the facility or build a new rink specifically for the team is insulting.

As an institutional power, SU should strive to provide students of all genders with an environment that encourages them to partake in athletic programs and provides the support they need. Through these efforts, the university community can be reminded that these women work equally as hard than their counterparts on the men’s teams to be taken seriously as athletes.

Even on a national basis, women’s teams can’t generate the same following due to weak media coverage and financial backing as well as society’s inability to bridge the gap between genders in the

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“Title IX mandated equal opportunities for women in sports at the collegiate level. But no law can mandate popularity.

No law can mandate financial success,” said Jordan Kobritz, a professor in the sports management department at the State University of New York at Cortland. “Specific to Syracuse, it seems to me that part of it might be related to the fact that the men’s basketball team has a longer tradition in terms of success.”

The average attendance for men’s basketball games this season at SU was 21,909, while for the women it was only 752.

But by advancing to the national championship game, the women’s team has established that it is more than worth watching as the first women’s team in SU history to even get that far. While we can’t expect to change every mind within a university community, SU actually supporting equality within the sports community should be a part of its traditions moving forward.

Everyone remembers their first few days on campus: in every class, we may have been asked why we chose to attend SU. Arguably, one of the most common responses was that Syracuse takes pride in its athletic programs and it’s that sense of unity for our teams that drew so many of us here. But it may not have been until students settled in on campus that it became apparent that this support only extends to men’s sports teams.

Now, with a group of students that have gone further than ever before, it’s time for SU to combat the simple fact that despite the basketball team’s talent, most people would rather see a woman on the sidelines.

Ivana Pino is a freshman political science major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at ivpino@syr.edu.

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Castle Court party ban lacks clarification The revival of Castle Court as an infamous host of underage drinking, projectile beer bottles and students hanging off of balconies in the Syracuse University party scene has brought to light the lack of clarification regarding the ban on parking lot parties at the Campus Hill apartments.

In the August 2014 email to Castle residents that announced the ban following the ranking of SU as the No. 1 party school

by The Princeton Review, it was made clear that discussions between the university, the Syracuse Police Department and Campus Hill resulted in the agreement on the basis of student safety.

But about a year and a half after the ban took effect, the community has been left with a muddled understanding of where the policy lies and under whose jurisdiction it is being enforced — leaving students in liability limbo and ultimately risking their personal safety.

This confusion has been sustained by conflicting statements between the three institutions that put the initial ban together.

Campus Hill operators say the parties are banned. SPD says the parties aren’t banned, but that authorities will intervene if there is a safety risk present.

And Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior

vice president for public affairs, recently said to a reporter’s question about the ban that all three groups have continued to take on those “issues of concern.”

These discrepancies in communication have led to the development of an environment in which mass groups of students are allowed to publicly drink underage without consequence.

And with the absence of an explicit ban, these dangerous situations will continue under the assumption that they are allowed.

It is ultimately the responsibility of Campus Hill to clarify the policy and that of SPD to enforce it accordingly. This need for stricter execution communicates that the institutions involved to preserve student safety are instead waiting for the unfortunate opportunity to be reactive rather than proactive. But it shouldn’t take until a student or community member is seriously injured at Castle for clarification to come into play.

In 2014, these institutions were working together to bar Castle Court mega parties in defense of student safety. But now, with mixed messages and serious safety concerns, unambiguous boundaries are necessary to preserve students’ well-being in the way the ban originally intended.

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Syverud among attendees at Schine Final Four watch party

By Alexa Torrens news editor

A piece of paper that read “Reserved for Chancellor” was taped to a small table in the Schine Student Center on Saturday night. A student sat on the chair before it, eyes set on the projector showing Syracuse in a hopeful but ultimately hopeless battle against North Carolina.

The actual chancellor of Syracuse University spent the majority of the first half pacing the perimeter between the food court area of Schine Dining and the dining area. He cheered and clapped quietly when the men’s basketball team scored, but his nervousness showed as he moved from place to place, at one point receding behind the curtain separating the food court and dining area.

Sy verud said he’d been nervous that way twice before in the Tournament, and the team had turned it around both those times. But Syracuse couldn’t turn it around on Saturday.

Despite Syracuse’s unsuccessful attempts to play catch-up for the majority of the game,

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marshall street Kevin Bufford jokingly said SU better win because he bet money. Bufford said he drove to Syracuse all the way from Alabama.

“It’s ‘Cuse, man! ‘Cuse made the Final Four! Why the hell do you think I am here!?

Come on,” Bufford said with smile on his face when he was asked why he is in Syracuse.

Then he said he’s actually here to attend a conference for law school.

the nervous energy in Schine remained hopeful. Every SU point resulted in claps and cheers, and, eventually, the sighs and groans for every North Carolina point quieted down.

Watch party attendees even giggled at a slowmotion shot of men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim closing his eyes and breathing out in exasperation.

I feel like I’m in the Final Four, even though they’re playing, I feel like I’m in the Final Four for the team.

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Some students were there because they thought Schine would be a good place to go to watch the game with a lot of people. Others went because all the bars were over 21, and they were underage.

Syverud, who had been in Chicago for the men’s Elite Eight victory over the Uni-

He added that he’s rooting for Syracuse over North Carolina because he likes the underdog.

Inside Varsity, Syracuse fans filled nearly all available seating. Fans constantly came in and out of the restaurant as they grabbed a bite to eat or sat down to watch the game. A main projector attracted a majority of eyeballs even though it screened the game with a five-second delay relative to four televisions set up in the corners.

By 10 p.m., Varsity exhausted the amount of pizza dough they had prepared for the day.

Lights were turned off at the cashier station

versity of Virginia, said he was in Schine on Saturday because he had been teaching all day and wanted to be at a public event for the game with students. Syverud spent the entirety of the first half at Schine but left shortly after the half’s end.

Two friends at the watch party, Kelsey Thompson and Yazmin Curiel-Ruth, said they were “freaking out” to see “Kent” there.

Curiel-Ruth, a freshman communication and rhetorical studies major, said she was “kind of surprised” to see Sy verud because she thought he’d be in Houston — the site of the men’s Final Four — but added that he’s the chancellor and likes to make appearances.

“It was cool because he’s actually stuck around,” said Thompson, a freshman in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. “That to me was, it was a nice time to show that he’s not just here to show up and then leave. He’s actually here for and with the students.”

Things headed further south for Syracuse when the second half started, as the Orange crept closer to North Carolina’s lead only to be outpaced by the Tar heels.

But one SU student said being in the Final Four felt “amazing” after last season, when the men’s basketball team was restricted from post-season play in a series of sanctions by the NCAA. “I feel like I’m in the Final Four, even though they’re playing, I feel like I’m in the Final Four for the team,” he said.

On how they’d feel if the Orange lost, the student and his friend agreed: “F*ck yeah, go ‘Cuse.”

Other students in Schine seemed to feel similarly, applauding fifth-year senior Michael Gbinije when he fouled out and effectively ended his time on the court as a student athlete. Respectful applause also erupted more than a minute later at the game’s end, with the final score 83-66.

Some students let their real feelings shine through, though.

“Grandma’s going to go and sleep,” one student said with a sigh, moments after the game ended and students were emptying out of Schine.

“Yeah, we’re sad,” her friend replied.

“We’re sad.”

and incoming customers were told pizza is sold out. Varsity sold more than $4,000 worth of pizza on Saturday, said Justin Patricolo, an employee at Varsity.

When the game ended, fans got up from chairs and scuttled away heading out onto the snowy streets of Syracuse.

Cady said after the game that he and his friends rented a house in Syracuse for the weekend. When they were in Syracuse four weeks ago, they jokingly said they would come back to Syracuse in a month if SU made the Final Four.

“And it happened,” he said.

Reflecting on SU’s loss, Cady said it was “a tough pill to swallow.”

“But we didn’t expect to make it this far.

Honestly, everything after the Tournament is gravy,” Cady said.

Alicia Rivera, a sophomore public relations major, said despite the loss being upsetting, she thinks the team — and particularly Trevor Cooney — did an amazing job. She added that she’s hopeful for Sunday’s women’s Final Four game against the University of Washington.

Rivera’s father, Tony, drove from Boston with his son, Cameron, to see the game with Alicia. When asked about any particularly memorable moment from the weekend, Tony said it was “an entire experience.”

Cameron said Syracuse played with confidence the entire time, unlike the University of Oklahoma, he said, which “just stopped” and “let Villanova destroy them” in the Final Four game before Syracuse’s.

“But Syracuse, even though they were losing, they kept coming back,” Cameron said.

“They kept trying to hit the shot. They kept putting it all out there.”

But we didn’t expect to make it this far. Honestly everything after the Tournament is gravy.

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As the game went by, the frequency of cheering dwindled. Syracuse was struggling to close the gap during the second half when North Carolina’s offense slowly began to crumble SU. Fans moaned in frustration whenever Syracuse missed a basket.

Toward the end of the game, one fan murmured, “Please baby Orange Jesus give me a 3 (point shot).”

One fan stared at a TV screen with glistening eyes. A few others rested their elbows on the table and crossed their hands under their chins, their eyes glued nervously to the projector.

“We are not giving up. Nobody is giving up,” Matt Cady, a Class of 2008 SU alumnus, shouted at the crowd as he stood on a chair.

Despite his chanting, some began to head out with about 39.5 seconds left in the game.

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block party York native Alex Pall. They formed the group in 2012, and quickly gained notoriety for their electronic mixes and high-energy performances.

The duo released their debut EP “Bouquet” featuring their hit “Roses,” which dominated the iTunes Top Dance/Electronic Songs chart, holding the No. 1 spot for several weeks.

The Chainsmokers’ debut album is expected later this year with lead single “Don’t Let Me Down” featuring Daya currently sitting at No.4 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic chart.

Chance The Rapper is one of the most wildly recognized young hip-hop artists of his generation. He captivated millions with his first two mixtapes, “10 Day” and “Acid

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Rap. His jazz-infused style and distinct voice has landed him features with artists like Kanye West, Childish Gambino and Donnie Trumpet. His highly anticipated collaboration mixtape with Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment “Surf” was released for free on iTunes in 2015.

Alternative hip-hop artist and songwriter Jon Bellion burst on to the New York music scene in 2014 with singles “Munny Right” and “Carry Your Throne.” His debut mixtape “The Definition” was released later that year to critical acclaim. Bellion is currently working on his debut album, whose lead single “All Time Low” recently earned him the No.1 spot on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart.

Past Block Party artists include 50 Cent, Kesha and Drake. jagedets@syr.edu | @jacobgedetsis

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RESTORING THE JEWEL Professor talks restoration of Onondaga Lake, a Syracuse ‘jewel’

By Taylor Watson staff writer

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fter over a century of misuse and pollution, Onondaga Lake is getting revamped, and a group of faculty and students at SUNY-ESF are working on the renewal of the lake, which is central to Syracuse’s history.

Neil Ringler, professor and vice provost for research at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, spoke at the school’s Gateway Center to a full auditorium on Wednesday. His lecture was entitled “Onondaga Lake: Renewal of a Jewel.”

Onondaga Lake was carved around 15,000 years ago and filled with glacial water 10,000 years ago, Ringler said.

The lake was originally a sacred place, where peace was made between the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk Nations as they formed the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, according to onondaganation.org.

Onondaga Lake remained prosperous throughout the early 1800s, serving as a center of activity and the home to eight major resorts, Ringler said.

The lake was so prosperous, in fact, that in the late 1800s, Onondaga Lake Whitefish could be found on menus of New York City restaurants, he added.

The downward spiral of Onondaga Lake began in 1886, he said, when a soda ash factory opened on the lakeshore. Waste was pumped into the lake daily.

From the 1920s to the 1950s, the lake was in the middle of a manufacturing center where waste from

salt factories, typewriter production and engine production were deposited. Ringler noted that sewer overflows mixed with storm water also contributed to the pumping of excess nutrients into the lake.

By 1901, the lake was no longer suitable for ice harvesting, and in 1940, it was declared unsafe for swimming. Dissolved oxygen levels plummeted, visibility decreased and blue-green algae levels amplified, Ringler said.

1886 The year a soda ash factory opened on the lakeshore of Onondaga Lake

In 1986, 100 years after its inception, the soda ash factory shut down. Shortly thereafter, Ringler said, the salinity level in Onondaga Lake decreased to one-third of what it had previously been.

Then in the 1990s, restoration efforts began. In 1993, SUNY-ESF faculty and students, including Ringler, created artificial spawning sites and windprotected habitats, which fish responded positively to. They also planted 12 species of aquatic plants.

Following the start of restoration efforts, plant and animal life experienced major growth.

Ammonia levels declined and Ringler observed that zebra mussels, which previously could not survive in the lake, thrived.

Pollution levels in the early part of the 20th century, led to a lack in fish diversity — since 1927 there have only been 12 species of fish in the lake. Between 1986 and 2016, restoration efforts proved to be effective, as a total of 64 different species of fish have been recorded in Onondaga Lake, Ringler said.

Fish that have recently arrived in the lake via the canal system include alewife, white bass, white perch, gizzard shad and sheepshead, he added.

Ringler said the water is now healthy enough for natural reproduction to occur, with 20 species of fish now spawning in the lake.

Although oxygen levels remain low in some areas, Ringler and other researchers have found that adding nitrate to the water will help to reverse oxygen depletion while also reducing the concentrations of mercury found in fish. Researchers are currently adding nitrate to the water, evaluating the process on a year-to-year basis.

Factors that contribute to the renewal of the lake include a strong academic environment, an earnest community, students becoming professionals and more than 30 years of work in the Onondaga Lake area, Ringler said.

Restoration efforts are not going to end any time soon. In partnership with Onondaga Community College (OCC), SUNY-ESF received an NY 2020 grant to establish the SUNY Water Research and Education Center at Onondaga Lake, which will contribute to the continuing processes of research and restoration, according to a press release on the OCC website. tnwatson@syr.edu

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When students woke up on Sunday, a look out the window most likely showed a fresh coating of snow and wind gusts blowing flakes through the air.

This snowfall comes after an abnormally warm March. The average temperature was 6 degrees above normal and the average snowfall was 12.6 inches below normal, according to Syracuse.com Snow in April is normal for Syracuse,

though. The average snow accumulation for the month is 3.8 inches, according to The National Weather Service.

The record for snowfall on April 3rd is 2.5 inches, which was set in 1937.

This winter, Syracuse has seen 72.2 inches of snowfall, about 44.8 inches below average, according to Syracuse.com.

The National Weather Service has called for another one to three inches of snow to fall in Onondaga County through Monday night.

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castle court “The University has expressed their very deep concern,” the email read. “Per our conversations with the University and the Syracuse Police Department, we wanted to officially let you know that this will not be allowed going forward and there will no longer be any large parties in the Castle Court parking lot.”

The ban was a result of an agreement made among the three institutions — SU, SPD and Campus Hill — after the university raised some safety concerns, including excessive alcohol consumption, the setting of fires in the parking lot and students hanging off balconies.

All three groups continue to take on those “issues of concern,” said Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, in a recent response to a reporter’s question about the ban.

Law enforcement officials say that the parties aren’t banned, but rather that police will intervene if there is a safety risk.

“We do not have any specific policy as related to this one location, and we are not directly monitoring that location,” said Syracuse police spokesman Sgt. Richard Helterline. “If we are notified of an event, then monitoring may occur if there is a cause for concern, as in last year with a large promoter planning to come there.”

The Department of Public Safety might help SPD with party control if the situation is large enough to disrupt traffic on sidewalks or on the street, said Hannah Warren, DPS’s public information officer, who has since left the university.

Student Association President Aysha Seedat said the Student Association is “primarily concerned about student safety more than anything else.”

In October 2015, SA got involved with a Syracuse Common Council ordinance that would have amended “The Social Host Ordinance” to make off­­-campus underage drinking an offense that could lead to prison time for a party’s host if police were to discover underage drinking or illegal drug consumption there. The ordinance was voted down.

“In this situation, we did get involved because we didn’t think that it was fair for students to have that penalty, not on the first offense,” Seedat said.

Common Councilor Nader Maroun, who represents the city’s Fifth District — which encompasses part of the university neigh-

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schine The first basket scored by SU was greeted with an eruption of cheers, as fans took a break from their wings, pizza and tortilla chips to clap their hands and yell in support of their team. Meanwhile, SCPS handed out free beaded blue necklaces and lottery tickets for a later prize drawing.

Commercial breaks were met with loud conversation and movement about the room. But when the Orange were playing, everyone’s eyes were — for the most part — glued to the screen.

Each SU point received cheers and claps, coupled with the rattle of the shaking beaded necklaces.

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borhood — and serves on the Public Safety Committee, was in the majority that voted against the ordinance. He did not return a request for comment to this story.

After the initial ban on the Castle Court parties, students started a movement to “#SaveCuse.” The campaign culminated in a YouTube video made by ImShmacked, an entertainment company known for its videos showing parties on college campuses. The video, titled “#SaveCuse,” has almost 10,000 views on YouTube.

“It’s the most important thing about being in college, being around people who make you feel good and make you want to have a good time,” a woman says in the video. “Taking away a place that allows us to do just that is only hurting the university as a whole.”

On that recent basketball game day, with the Castle Court parking lot nearly full with students and other members of the SU community, a student raised his red Solo Cup and said the rallying cry, “Save ‘Cuse.”

Police officers watched from the sidewalk. jmatting@syr.edu | @jmattingly306

Each increase in the score of the opponent, or each call in their favor, elicited a soft groan.

Spirits remained high at the half. With the Orange in a 12-point lead, optimistic students could feel the excitement all the way from Indianapolis.

“It’s looking pretty good … they’re working together really well and (we have) a 12-point lead,” Lin said. “So hopefully that continues.”

Hilton Beckham, a graduate student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, agreed, saying, “The women are going to take it. It’s the women’s year.”

As the third quarter began and the game progressed, a familiar chorus echoed around the room. Alexis Peterson makes a 3: “Nice!”

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The referee calls a foul against SU: “What?!”

A multi-player pile up on the court: “Oooh.”

Nobody seemed worried, though, at least not with the consistent 12-point Orange lead and five minutes left in the third. There was still plenty of energy in the room — according to the fans in Schine, SU had this win in the bag.

As the night wore on, fans filed out slowly, whether it be from exhaustion or confidence in the ability of the women’s team to bring home a win, but a dedicated handful remained. As loud and as engaged as ever.

Clean-up began with three minutes left in the fourth quarter. Slight smiles were on everyone’s faces while they brought their paper plates — once piled high with free food, but now carrying

nothing more than wing bones and dirty napkins — to the trash. Victory was inevitable.

The clock ran out, and while the cheers earlier were loud, these were louder. Syracuse had won, 80-59. Following the sound of the buzzer, students hugged their friends and took photos in their SU shirts, all while continuing to clap and shout.

The night was over, but the women’s run in the tournament is not. The team will face off against the University of Connecticut on Tuesday.

“We’re winning. We’re going all the way.

We’re going to beat UConn in the final,” said Lindsey Horsting, a graduate student in Newhouse. “That’s a stretch, but I’m going to say that.” brkenned@syr.edu

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1. PED 228 – Boxing Fitness Boxing Fitness is dedicated to teaching students the basics of boxing. El-Java Abdul-Qadir, a Syracuse University professor and owner of his own martial arts studio, began the class as a way to give people a different perspective of the sport.

“Now, people always leave the boxing class saying, ‘Wow, I thought that boxing was just about punching a guy until he goes straight to sleep,’” Abdul-Qadir said, “‘but now I’m leaving knowing it’s actually a science.’”

The class teaches students proper ways of striking, how to defend themselves and proper boxing technique, among other things.

2. HOM 300: Selected Topics – EDM International For the first time next semester, SU is offering a class that looks at electronic dance music around the world.

Instructor Maurice Mengel is an ethnomusicologist — someone who studies music and its cultural context — and just “came up with the class,” which is discussion-based.

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He said the class will look at the history of electronic dance music, versions of the genre around the world and how EDM is consumed and interpreted in today’s Internet Age. “I also try to include some practical element,” he added. “In this class, we should be able to make one or several EDM tracks collaboratively in the class in a style that we have previously analyzed.”

3. BIO 211: Introduction to Neuroscience If you’ve ever wondered how you know what you know, Professor Jacob Shreckengost and this class will connect those synapses. If you want to know what a synapse is, take this class.

BIO 211 focuses on cellular neurobiology and continues onto integrative systems — which essentially connects one organ or system to others in the body — and concludes with studying higher brain functions, according to the course catalog.

Mixing biology and neuroscience, this class and Sheckengost will take you deep inside the workings of the human brain.

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no alien encounters in this class. Instead, Professor Guido Pezzarossi will pair classical anthropology with science fiction in novels, films and video games.

“If they were to watch Avatar in the future, they can identify where some of these ideas about hierarchy and human evolution and development and how these things are an issue,” Pezzarossi said.

This is the first time the course will be offered but Pezzarossi hopes to eventually regularize the class.

5. PSC329/HST 341 The Modern American Presidency It’s no secret that there’s something big going down in politics this November: the presidential election.

With election season already in full swing and the November election less than nine months away, there have been plenty of confusing ups and downs. Since it’s something new for many students, Professor Peggy Thompson aims to make sense of it all in this class.

“One of the things that’s exciting to me is that for many students, it’s the first time they can vote,” Thompson said.

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6. QSX 300: Christianity & Sexuality

This class is kept small, as it relies on intimate discussions between classmates and the professor. The professor of the course, Virginia Burrus, is in the religion department and has the distinction of being the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor.

Her interests include gender and sexuality among her interests in religious studies, all of which tie together in this course.

7. CFS 425: Lust, Love and Relationships Professor Joseph Fanelli started this class about 12 years ago when the current dean came to him requesting a part two to the Human Sexuality course.

The course focuses on topics such as why people are attracted to certain people, what it means to love and the art of relationship success.

“It’s integration of the head and the heart,” Fanelli said. “I’m trying to teach a class where there is information yet it triggers a lot of emotional awareness.”

Fanelli said students who take this class look at the emotional and scientific sides of relationships, something he said is “pretty unusual in life in general.”

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SU Drama production brings outdoor aesthetic to stage

By Clare Ramirez asst. copy editor

Figures of trees line the back end of the stage, while a stump, an axe and a rocking chair sit near the front end. Pieces of wood and broken dishes hang on long curtain-like strips to set the rustic mood. A group of string instruments and a piano are nestled into a corner of the stage, its members wearing denim jeans and flannels.

This is the scene audience members are presented with as they walk into the Syracuse University Department of Drama’s production of the Off-Broadway musical “The Spitfire Grill,” which opened this weekend. Directed by drama department chair Ralph Zito, “The Spitfire Grill” will run until April 10 at the Storch Theater in the Syracuse Stage/ SU Drama Complex.

Every thing about the production — from its all-string accompaniment to its natural aesthetic — aimed to embody the idea of the countryside.

“This certainly isn’t your everyday kind of Broadway musical — first of all because of the musical style of the show and being it country and folk-esque,” said junior musical theatre major Maria Bufalini, who plays the main character, Percy. “… This show isn’t a spectacle musical. It doesn’t have big production numbers, doesn’t rely on big dance numbers or anything like that. It all goes back to the text and the raw story.”

At the start of the musical, Percy has just finished a five-year jail sentence. She decides to make her way to Gilead, Wisconsin — a

decision based on a beautiful photograph of the town’s autumn surroundings she found in a travel book.

While redemption is hardly an unfamiliar plot, what audiences might not expect is that there’s more than just one storyline.

Just as Percy finds a second chance at a life outside of prison, the town of Gilead gets another chance at hope after a tragedy that happened many years ago.

Bufalini said she did plenty of research on prison life and solitary confinement in order to “nail” what’s going on mentally for her character. She didn’t want to get stuck playing a wounded or a dark person — rather, she aimed to keep Percy’s intentions front and center.

“It was a big undertaking because her story is so dark. But she brings so much light to this community that I had to work on not getting stuck in the darkness of her past,” said Bufalini. “I still needed to be able to bring that to the storyline — just not get trapped in it.”

Audience members will find themselves relying on suspension of disbelief from time to time because of the production’s simplistic nature. For example, at one point during the musical, blue lights can symbolize the fact that a scene takes place outside, while orange or red lights can symbolize an interior scene.

But the production hinges itself on the story of the small town and the development of its characters.

In the story, Percy starts working at The Spitfire Grill, which is owned by an old woman named Hannah. When Hannah gets injured, Percy and a local named Shelby, played by

MARIA BUFALINI took on the role of Percy, the main character in “The Spitfire Grill.”

The junior musical theater major did research on solitary confinement to prepare for the role, as her character was just released from prison. courtesy of mike davis

Kelsey Roberts, are tasked with helping out at the grill as Hannah makes her recovery.

Roberts, a junior musical theater major, said she finds Shelby to be a shy and tentative character.

“She always wants people to be comfortable and everything to be even keel, no drama,” said Roberts. “So I think Percy shows her what it’s like to not be OK and to stand up for yourself … Shelby would never have stood up for anything had she not seen how Percy lives and the kind of things that Percy has faced.”

Roberts also said she loved playing Shelby from the very beginning because of her devel-

opment. Early in the show, audience members see Shelby dealing with a controlling husband and unable to voice her thoughts.

But Roberts said a costume change in Act Two, where she wears pants instead of a skirt, symbolizes Shelby’s increased confidence and growth as a person.

“My favorite message from the show is just finding yourself … and saying, ‘I don’t have to keep beating myself up for things that happened in my past,’” Roberts said.

“It’s all about becoming OK with who you are and growing from that.” clramire@syr.edu

5 things to know about this year’s Block Party performers

By Kathryn Krawczyk and Rachel Gilbert co-feature editors

The Chainsmokers and Chance The Rapper are headed to Syracuse University.

Hip-hop artist Chance The Rapper will co-headline this year’s Block Party with DJ duo The Chainsmokers, University Union announced Sunday. Singer-songwriter Jon Bellion will also join the two artists on the Carrier Dome stage on April 29 at 7:30 p.m.

1. Chance is not signed to a record label The singer has remained independent and in an interview with Rolling Stone, he explained why in few words: “There’s no reason to. It’s a dead industry,” he said.

In December 2015, he became the first ever independent artist to perform on “Saturday Night Live.” He performed on the iconic late night show in collaboration with Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment.

2. Chance wrote his first mixtape, “10 Day” when he was suspended from high school The artist, real name Chancelor Bennett, was suspended for 10 days for smoking marijuana at school.

The mixtape took a year to complete after he started recording. In an interview with hiphopdx.com, he said the album is an analysis of how he felt before and during the suspension.

3. Alex Taggart is an SU alumnus

Taggart is one half of the Chainsmokers, along with Alex Pall. At SU, Taggart studied music business, according to an article in the Portland Press Herald. He got an internship at Interscope Records, where he did more than make coffee runs: he produced electronic music for other artists Taggart launched his career at SU in 2011, when he released his first EP under the name DJ D’Anconia.

4. The Chainsmokers want you to take a #Selfie The Chainsmokers broke onto the pop culture scene with their first single, “#Selfie,” released in 2014. Featuring vapid women in a club who snap countless pictures of themselves, the music video got more than 419 mil-

lion views on YouTube. Some critics assumed it was social commentary, but The Chainsmokers weren’t thinking of any of that.

“We made the song in like an hour — give us a break,” Pall said in an interview with MTV.

5. Kanye is Jon Bellion’s role model Bellion took Kanye’s album title “College Dropout” to heart.

He told the Huffington Post that after hearing that album, he dropped out of college. Inside college, he felt confined by the pressure of classes, and said he would rather learn about music organically.

But unlike Kanye, he said he’s humbled by his success as an artist. kjkrawcz@syr.edu | rcgilber@syr.edu

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Ride to Houston goes by quickly when watching Harry Potter

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n Friday night, a group of approximately 200 students boarded buses outside of Schine Student Center for what was likely to be one of the most memorable weekends of our entire lives. For the next day and a half, we were split up onto four buses, and as a group, we made the trek to Houston to see the Syracuse Orange play in the Final Four.

As I prepared for this odyssey of a bus ride, I figured I would need to find a way to entertain myself. The bus ride was free, so I figured I was justified in spending approximately the value of a bus ticket on movies from iTunes. I downloaded easyto-watch classics such as “Step Brothers,” “The Other Guys,” “50 First Dates” and even some heavier fare like “Nebraska” and “Les Misérables.” I was prepared to embark on a deep dive of laptop cinema.

Once I boarded the bus, I discovered there were actually televisions the whole bus could watch together. Was I mildly upset that I maybe wasted around $50 on iTunes? Perhaps a little, but I will get to watch those movies on my laptop eventu-

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DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY ally. Besides, those movies are all classics, so they’re good to have.

The bus ride began smoothly, though it was somewhat intimidating to process being on a 30-hour journey. The first three hours went by in a breeze, though my buns were beginning to sore and I could not grasp we were merely 10 percent through our journey. As people started to get somewhat restless, it officially became time to play a movie. A voice came over the loud speaker: “Who wants to watch ‘Mean Girls?’”

“Yaaaaaaaasssss,” the crowd immediately screamed, honestly including myself.

It’s a great movie. But then someone spoke up and said that they had all eight Harry Potter films, and the opportunity of a lifetime was presented.

Instead of watching random movie after random movie, we could watch one streamlined story. In fact, story is probably not even

the best word — we could watch a modern epic.

Not everyone was a huge fan of this Harry Potter decision. The girl sitting behind me actually threatened to punch me for defending Harry Potter slightly too adamantly.

Hopefully she doesn’t have similar feelings reading this, but I can admit, it was midnight and I was shrieking with excitement.

Over the next 24 hours, Harry Potter became a constant in our journey to Houston. As we travelled through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and finally, Texas, the boy who lived was with us for every step.

Harry Potter was thematically the perfect choice for this trip. After all, it’s a movie about magic, and what could be more magical than Syracuse University’s Tournament performance this year? More so, the Harry Potter saga is about friendship, teamwork and even school pride.

The Harry Potter series is essentially the film series of my childhood, with the first film being released at Thanksgiving of kindergarten, and the last the summer before 11th grade. Just as we watched Harry Potter

grow from a boy to a man over the course of a bus ride, I have done the same over the course of two decades.

Watching these movies was both of a reminder of how far I’ve come, and where I am now. I have spent so much time and energy planning for my future. How many credits do I need to take? New York or LA? When do I get my internship? For this weekend though, I could finally appreciate the journey getting to SU. Though I may not talk to the people on my bus again, I leave this weekend feeling like the only thing stronger than a family: A Hogwarts House. Just for this weekend, we were Gryffindor, and I felt as if I was watching Trevor Cooney try to catch that golden snitch. He may not have caught it, but cheering him and the team on was an honor and privilege of a lifetime, and a memory I will never forget.

Erik Benjamin is a sophomore television, radio and film major. His column appears weekly in Pulp. You can email him at ebenjami@syr.edu or follow him @embenjamin14 on Twitter.

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Indian Tandoor Halal is located on Harrison Street and features a wide variety of Tandoori style cuisine. The restaurant offers a large selection of rolls, naan, samosas, kabobs, curries and other entrées, as well as sweeter options like lassis, a yogurt-based smoothie.

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DON’T CURRY, BE HAPPY Indian Tandoor Halal serves up a variety of spicy, flavorful Punjabi cuisine

By Casey Russell staff writer

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t’s that point in the semester when everyone feels a little (or very) stressed and may be struggling to go to class and get assignments done. Somehow, the stress and pressure both hinders and ignites the motivation to do schoolwork.

I’ve been at that point these past two weeks, so I was really looking forward to taking a break and getting Indian food at Indian Tandoor Halal.

GrubHub connoisseurs may already be familiar with Indian Tandoor Halal’s menu, as it offers delivery. In fact, it seems as though the majority of its business comes from take-out. When I visited the restaurant itself on Harrison Street, it was empty except for the two employees. The floors were linoleum and the chairs looked like relics from a 1980s office building. However, the colorful placemats and wall paint brought some life into the place.

The menu offers a solid selection of entrées: There are Kathi rolls, an Indian flatbread rolled up with a choice of 14 different fillings. There are several vegetarian options with potatoes instead of chicken or lamb. They all are served with fries and a soda.

A Kathi roll would be a great option for someone trying Indian food for the first time, because the familiar comfort of a sandwich, fries and a Coke will definitely help newcomers become accustomed.

There are also several curries, kababs and a wide and exciting variety of naan. I would have loved to

order just naan, as they offered paneer naan, made with a type of Indian cheese; Kashmiri naan made with golden raisins, nuts and coconut; and a ginger naan. However, I figured it was best to try some other foods as well.

about the menu Indian Tandoor Halal offers a menu of Tandoori style cuisine, which is almost like a sub-style of Punjabi cuisine, popular in north India and northeast Pakistan. All the food is halal, meaning it is lawful under Islamic tradition to consume, similar to the way eating kosher is in Judaism.

I ordered a chicken tikka masala, which was cubed chicken marinated with tandoori spices and served with a thick vermillion-colored sauce over rice. The flavors were definitely unlike European and American cuisine, and the warm food and hot spices left a lasting impression. The restaurant allows the customer to determine the level of spiciness they want, on a scale from one to ten. The tikka masala was almost like eating chicken pot pie, but better because it had more flavor.

I also tried a samosa, which is a fried dumpling filled with potatoes and green peas, and can be dressed with a light, cilantro and mint based sauce, or a thicker, sweet and spicy tamarind sauce. The samosa was cooked well, but even though the inside was a little bland on its own, adding sauces completely transformed the dish. I preferred the cilantro mint variety, but the tamarind sauce was

also good.

The naan was a nice way to cool down my palate after eating the spicy masala and the flavorful samosas. It was crispy and chewy, perhaps a little undercooked, but still delicious.

I finished off with a mango lassi, an Indian yogurt-based smoothie, but much sweeter and richer. I remember having homemade lassis the times I had eaten Indian food at my family friend’s house, but I don’t remember it being as sweet as Indian Tandoor Halal’s recipe. For me, it was a little too sugary, and since I was already full from eating, I was only really able to drink a few sips before I was satisfied.

Perhaps one of my favorite things about the restaurant was the server — I’m not kidding. He was about 14 years old, and provided service promptly.

By his presence, I believe the restaurant was familyowned. It reminded me of a friend back home who worked in his parents’ Cambodian restaurant from the time he was around this boy’s age to when we graduated high school. I’m always down to support family-owned businesses.

Overall, I would eat Indian Tandoor Halal’s food again. However, I would sooner order it for delivery than I would go back to the restaurant itself. Its location on Harrison Street is close to the Centro bus transfer station, but I would not want to deal with bus rides and a five to ten minute walk when it’s far easier to have the food come right to my residence hall.

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huskies Ford entered and hit consecutive 3s to doubleup the Huskies and pushed SU to a 36-18 lead in the first half. Maggie Morrison cycled on and off the bench. She hit eight 3s this postseason entering Sunday, and hit her second try from deep.

“You need those four or five, six, seven, eight or even nine and ten players to win a national championship and to win a semifinal championship,” Brittney Sykes said.

“When you have that in your head and you know you have to come in and be productive … you have to do things of that nature.”

After Briana Day was bullied under the basket in the opening few minutes, she was yanked less than five minutes into the game in favor sister Bria Day. As the Huskies struggled to work anything smooth offensively, 6-foot-2 big Chantel Osahor bulldozed over Bria Day and was whistled for a charge.

Hillsman, who heavily leaned on his depth earlier in the season, dissipated their playing time slightly in the season’s biggest games.

But it was his reserves on Sunday who helped breathe one last game into SU’s season.

Leaning on Walton Walton shouldered nearly all of the Huskies’ offense in the opening half, and her electric shooting performance trickled into the second as well. When Washington had time to get it’s offense set, it whipped the ball around the arc through the hands of Osahor and Kelsey Plum. But it usually ended in the hands of Walton, who finished the game with 29 points and shot 8-of-9 from 3.

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to break SU’s press. She answered every call.

“She did an excellent job shooting the ball today,” senior guard Cornelia Fondren said. “And I give her credit, she’s a wonderful shooter. We just had to stop her, shut her down in the second half.

“We got after her with our pressure.”

She finished the opening half six-for-six from 3-point land, accounting for 18 of Washington’s 31 points. She was fouled on her only shot from behind the arc that didn’t fall through the net, and hit 1-of-3 free throws to up her first-half point total to 19. The next closest player was Plum with seven points at the time.

The Orange did better to contain its perimeter, and hold Walton to two 3s in the second half and only three total to a Huskies team that shot 15 deep balls in the opening 20 minutes.

Punching back For nearly every occasion Washington tried to breathe life back into its offense from behind the arc, Syracuse answered from deep as well.

Isabella Slim, who averages only a handful of minutes per game but starts every game, opened the game with only her 14th 3 of the season.

Brianna Butler heated up after clanking her first shot in and out of the rim. She hit a contested 3 in the first quarter, extending SU’s lead to 10, making it 19-9. She snuck to the left corner after subbing back in the second quarter and pushed the lead to 33-15.

Sykes scored 17 points, one behind Alexis Peterson for the team lead, and she hit four 3s.

On her first, she held three fingers above her right eyebrow and saluted the SU bench.

SU rode its 3-point shooting into the second half, finishing with 12 made 3s. cgrossma@syr.edu | @connorgrossman

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washington Syracuse guard Brittney Sykes said of her head coach. “We’re doing that right now. Whether it took us two years, three years, four years, we’re here, so we’re here in this moment. We’re living in this moment. Tuesday, we’ll be competing for what he’s been saying all his years here.”

“I knew coming in that this was a great group,” first-year assistant coach Tammi Reiss said before the team left for Indianapolis on Thursday. “I never thought we’d be contending for a national championship.”

And while SU didn’t make it look as easy as Connecticut did, beating Oregon State 80-51 in the earlier game, the Orange did go up by as much as 19 in the second quarter.

With about five minutes still left before halftime, all nine players that had played for Syracuse had scored.

Washington’s saving grace was Talia Walton, who scored 19 points and was 6-for-6 on 3-point attempts in the first half, single-handedly keeping the Huskies in the game. Washington’s first 2-point field goal didn’t come until there were five minutes left in the half.

“You understand that what’s at stake is you could go home,” Sykes said. “That puts fear in you and you want to go out and give your all.”

More than two months ago, Hillsman called his team wounded after back-to-

back blowout conference losses that caused the Orange to be unranked for two months.

He said it needed to figure out how to beat ranked teams. It was the team’s responsibility to get better.

Having its lead swell to 24 points in the third quarter of the semifinal game, SU showed that it did. Add that to the Orange’s current streak (that started after those two losses) in which it has won 16 of its last 17 games — losing only to Notre Dame in the ACC championship game.

“We ran into the hottest team in the tournament,” Washington head coach Mike Neighbors said. “They continue to play like they have been the last month and a half of the season … When you get a team that’s this hot this late in the season that really fuels the energy and it’s really hard to stem the flow.”

The defense was a typical Syracuse formula of a press causing turnovers. The Orange forced 18 and turned them into 20 points.

Offensively, it was a distributed effort that saw five players score at least eight points.

“Right here, we got this,” Syracuse center Briana Day yelled in the team huddle before the fourth quarter. “Right here.”

And the Orange did as the Huskies spiraled out of control in the final frame.

In a season of a historic amount of firsts for Syracuse, the team has just one left — a national championship. jrmettus@syr.edu | @jmettus

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1st-half defensive play carries Syracuse to win over Duke

By Tomer Langer asst. copy editor

Kyra Harney was standing 25 yards away from the goal. The only thing she saw in front of her was Syracuse freshman Alexa Radziewicz.

Kelci Smesko was 10 yards behind the goal, toeing the out of bounds line. The only thing she saw in front of her was SU senior defender Brenna Rainone, who was standing with her back to the goal, eyes focused on Smesko.

Harney and Smesko came into the game third and fifth in the ACC in scoring, respectively. And Syracuse came prepared from the get-go, employing two of its top defenders to faceguard and effectively neutralize the Duke duo for the entire game.

“We knew they were going to do that … we practiced for that all week. I think we could have executed better, particularly in the first half,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

No. 4 Syracuse (10-3, 3-1 ACC) was facing two top-five conference scorers for the second time in the last week, limiting Notre Dame’s Cortney Fortunato and Rachel Sexton to just one combined goal last Saturday in South Bend, Indiana.

This time, SU ratcheted up the effectiveness, as the two only combined for one shot the entire game, and that came on a free-position attempt with under a minute to go. And even though No. 13 Duke (8-5, 3-1 Atlantic Coast) found replacements in Maddy Acton (six goals) and Maddie Crutchfield (three goals), it wasn’t enough as Syracuse held on to win, 14-12, on Sunday afternoon in the carrier dome.

“Against Notre Dame, we had success so we decided to go with it again,” SU head coach Gary Gait said about deploying two defenders to faceguard.

After falling behind 2-0 fairly quickly,

BRENNA RAINONE (7) worked alongside Alexa Radziewicz and faceguarded Duke’s top two scorers Kyra Harney and Kelci Smesko.

The two were non-factors in SU’s 14-12 win over the Blue Devils. hannah wagner staff photographer

the Blue Devils responded with three goals in a 2:44 second span to take its first, and what ended up being its only, lead of the game. But for the next 15 minutes, Syracuse clamped down. As the offense was racking up goals, the defense was shutting down Duke’s attempt. One Blue Devils fan yelled, “C’mon Kyra, move!” while Harney was being faceguarded by Radziewicz and completely uninvolved with the play.

Smesko was subbed out of the game for a stretch that lasted roughly 10 minutes in the

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second half. When she was out of the game, Rainone fell back into the zone defense that SU normally plays. When she returned, Rainone was faceguarding her again.

“The way we were trying to use her wasn’t necessarily being effective,” Kimel said. “If things aren’t working, you’ve got to change something.”

Duke eventually went on a run in the second half. While SU was locking up the Blue Devils best pair, another twosome was producing goals. Duke outscored SU

7-3 in the second half, and all seven of those goals came from either Acton or Crutchfield. But Gait didn’t think that the defensive scheme was the issue.

“I think it was more of an issue of trying to slow the game down once we got a sizeable lead,” Gait said.

Duke’s run couldn’t last without its top guns and Harney’s free-position attempt came a little too late as Syracuse held on for the victory. tdlanger@syr.ed | @tomer_langer

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Valeria Salazar leads SU to Kayla Treanor tallies 7 points 6-1 win over Florida State for Orange in win over Duke

By Liam Sullivan

By Charlie DiSturco staff writer

Valeria Salazar hit a backhand that landed just past the baseline. Yukako Noi rose her finger to signal that the ball had landed out of bounds. With that failed return, Salazar’s lead tightened to 5-4 in the second set.

Salazar then walked over to the bench and sat down. Associate head coach Shelley George came over and sat beside the junior.

The two had a mini discussion before the line judge told both players to return to their position for the next game. Salazar took a sip from her bottle and jogged back to the baseline.

“She needed to believe in herself and stick to her game plan that was working out there,” George said when Salazar experienced a few struggles. “Don’t panic and we’ll have good things happen in the end.”

A few plays later, she found herself ahead 40-15, one point away from winning the match. Salazar bent over, threw the ball in the air and hit the ball toward Noi, who reached her racket out. The ball made contact with the racket, arced in the air. Salazar and all the fans at Drumlins Country Club watched as the ball landed a few feet past the baseline.

“Point!” Salazar yelled out, smiling and walking toward the centerline to shake her opponents hand. She had won her singles match 6-3, 6-4 and took home the No. 1 doubles match, securing two points in No. 40

Syracuse’s (10-6, 4-6 Atlantic Coast) 6-1 win over No. 57 Florida State (9-11, 1-9 ACC).

Salazar did not break under pressure.

While there were times when Noi made an attempt at a comeback, Salazar stayed strong by keeping her opponent on the balls of her feet all game. Noi was running often, setting up Salazar with quick-and-easy combinations of both forehands and backhands.

As Noi served the ball to Salazar, a quick rally ensued. A backhand by Salazar had Noi run all the way to her right, before Salazar hit another backhand to the opposite corner.

While both were returned, Salazar ran up to the middle of the court setting herself up for a forehand that was unreturnable.

Noi took a step forward, put her hands on her hips and exhaled deeply. She was sweating and breathing heavily often in that game. Salazar meanwhile, stayed focused on the task at hand: Making her opponent run hard on every rally.

Salazar is the team’s No. 2 singles player and is 7-8 on the year. She mentioned that her serve is among her best qualities, as she pointed out that was one of the many reasons for her win in both singles and doubles against Florida State.

“My game plan was to stay low and move her around,” Salazar said about her opponent. “I noticed she would miss (the ball) sometimes or leave the court open.” csdistur@syr.edu

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Kayla Treanor won the draw control, corralled the ball and sprinted past Duke defenders into the offensive zone. With Syracuse trailing the Blue Devils 3-2 early, it looked like the senior captain and two-time Tewaaraton Award finalist was going to take matters into her own hands.

As the last line of the Duke defense converged on Treanor, she pulled up, passed the ball back to the perimeter and moved to the right of the crease. Taylor Gait, Kelly Cross and Halle Majorana quickly cut looking to exploit gaps in the defense, but they couldn’t find any.

The ball worked back to Treanor who faked a shot high over her right shoulder.

Duke goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea moved her head and stick up and Treanor swung her stick back around to her left before smoothly bouncing the ball past her to even the score.

“Kayla is just an awesome player … She scores, she creates, she sets everybody up,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “She draws a lot of attention, and I think our kids kind of froze at times and didn’t react well.”

Treanor took advantage of the opportunities No. 14 Duke (8-5, 3-1 Atlantic Coast) presented her, scoring seven points to lead No. 4 Syracuse (10-3, 3-1 ACC) to a 14-12 win Sunday afternoon in the Carrier Dome. Treanor notched a hat trick and tallied four assists by foiling the game plan the Blue Devils put in

place in an attempt to hold the active Division I leader in points in check.

Rather than face guard Treanor and leave other gaps and defenders exposed, Duke’s Isabelle Montagne was tasked with defending Treanor, just as she had last year. In a 10-9 regular season loss to the Blue Devils in 2015, Treanor scored three goals. In a 14-10 Syracuse win in last season’s ACC tournament, she managed only three assists against Montagne.

Treanor caught Montagne on two of her three goals by gaining a quick step as the defender struggled to react and rotate back.

Treanor took advantage with her speed and was able to fire off a couple of quick shots.

“I think Izzie Montagne is a really good match for her,” Kimel said. “… (She) just didn’t have a great day today and she didn’t have a lot of support either.”

Even when Montagne’s constant pressure prevented Treanor from creating for herself, she managed to pass and create for her teammates. Assists aside, Treanor found herself forced out to the 30-yard line by Montagne with 2:38 remaining in the first half.

Even with Treanor so far removed, the Duke defense shifted to help Montagne, and Erica Bodt saw an opening and charged unchecked up the middle to score an unassisted goal.

“We didn’t limit any of their top guns,” Kimel said. “We obviously know their personnel really well, we know what they’re looking to create and we just didn’t do a great job.” lpsull01@syr.edu

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Michael Gbinije’s career comes to screeching halt at SU

By Matt Schneidman sports editor

HOUSTON – Michael Gbinije seemed lost as his eyes fixated on the bright camera lights in the distance. He fidgeted with his lip, covered his mouth with his right hand and cleared his throat before an answer that was simple, but one that carried far more depth than its six words.

“I’m a little crushed right now.”

Gbinije’s season was over. His college career was over.

Syracuse’s best, most consistent player, who morphed into a star point guard and scored in double digits in each of the Orange’s 37 games, finished a memorable run from the bench after fouling out with 1:25 remaining.

When he exited for the last time, the entire sideline stood to embrace him one at a time.

Jim Boeheim met him with a firm handshake and a pat on the back, if only as consolation for a spectacular season that came to an unspectacular end in front of 75,000-plus people and with SU in the Final Four.

Gbinije’s 28-percent mark from the field was not enough in 10th-seeded Syracuse’s (23-14, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) 83-66 loss to No. 1 seed North Carolina (33-6, 14-4) in the national semifinal on Saturday night, but a tainted end could only take away so much from everything that came before it.

“He’s a hell of a guy and a hell of a player and that’s all you can ask for of a teammate,” Trevor Cooney said. “Making this run is a bond that we’ll share forever, and I wouldn’t want to do it with anyone else.”

For the first time in the NCAA Tourna-

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dougherty est Tournament run in program history.

If you want to summarize that run after the Orange fell 83-66 to top-seeded North Carolina in NRG Stadium on Saturday night, it all comes back to this sweeping narrative: At no point was Syracuse supposed to get to the Final Four. Not anywhere close to it. But that’s exactly what happened. That’s exactly what you all watched, with two eyes on the court and your hearts in your throats. And now it’s not really about how Syracuse got here, but that it did — one game short of the national title game yet well past what we all imagined.

“I told the players after the game that I’m more proud of this team than any team I’ve ever coached,” Boeheim said after the loss to the Tar Heels. “I’ve been pretty proud of our teams. This team battled through an awful lot of things.”

Those “things,” the obstacles that make this climb into April equally incredible and inconceivable, started to stack up before the season even started. Last March the NCAA cracked down on a decade of violations, none of which involved any player on this team, and hung a cloud over the program. Scholarships and wins were taken away, Boeheim’s nine-game suspension was announced, Syracuse self-imposed a postseason ban with recruiting, tickets sales and, if only slightly, this kind of Tournament run in mind.

And in the shadow of the program’s past, the Orange was nearly as shaky on the court.

Starting center Dajuan Coleman was coming off 22 months of rehab for two knee surgeries.

Tyler Roberson had never been relied upon as a primary rebounder. Michael Gbinije had never been a full-time point guard. Boeheim was going to look to two freshmen for starter minutes, and a third would join his seven-man rotation in time.

All things considered, an 0-4 start to conference play wasn’t all that surprising. Boeheim was watching from home. Every player on the court, save fifth-year senior Trevor Cooney, was either inexperienced or unfamiliar with their

MICHAEL GBINIJE (0) was Syracuse’s most consistent player this season, but he struggled in the Final Four to end his career. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

ment, Gbinije played the fifth-year senior struggling to lift his team from the depths of a game with its season on the brink. He did it against Gonzaga and helped Malachi Richardson do it against Virginia.

But against the Tar Heels, 12 points, no 3-pointers and five fouls couldn’t resuscitate the Orange one final time.

After Gbinije picked up his third foul with 4:23 left and SU trailing by 11, Cooney looked up at the scoreboard hanging from the ceiling before lowering to a squat on the court. Each jolt Syracuse delivered that gave a sliver of possibility at another comeback was met with an answer.

Each answer hit the chance of Gbinije extending his career one more game harder.

“The sad thing about tonight’s game, he got probably some of the best shots he’s gotten all year,” Boeheim said. “… It was just

one of those days when he could not get the ball to go in the basket.”

Those days came few and far between in the past 37 games. Gbinije still managed to score 10 or more points even on nights when it seemed like he did everything to prevent that. Only four times this season did he shoot less than 30 percent from the field. Only five times this season did he fail to hit a shot from behind the arc.

It almost seemed unfair that in one game both would happen as Syracuse was on the verge of being the lowest-seeded team ever to make the national championship.

“It’s never easy because it’s not just a game,” assistant coach Mike Hopkins said.

“It’s the end of your career as a college student, as a college basketball player.”

When Gbinije first walked in the door at Syracuse, assistant coach Adrian Autry raved about

role. If the season was going to burn out right then and there, with a crippling loss to Clemson and the fleeting excitement of Boeheim’s return, it would have been fairly normal. Expected. OK. But then the wheels starting turning, slowly at first and then in warp speed. SU answered the 0-4 start, which tied the worst start to conference play in Boeheim’s 40 years as head coach, with an 8-1 run that included a win at No. 20 Duke and at home over No. 25 Notre Dame. No team had ever made the Final Four after starting 0-4 in conference play until this one did.

Whatever Boeheim said that night, it worked.

“I just think we didn’t know when to quit, or even what quit means,” said Gbinije late Saturday night. “That’s what got us here. Just buying in and saying to each other, to the guy next to you, that we’re not going down.”

When it came to Selection Sunday, Syracuse couldn’t help itself. It ended the year 1-5 and, after a second-round loss to Pittsburgh in the ACC Tournament, was widely thought to be on the wrong side of the bubble. But the committee felt otherwise. Consider for a moment, like you may have already, that this Orange team was an NCAA Tournament afterthought, plugged in as a 10 seed in the Midwest region and left as bait for second-seeded Michigan State.

What happened next will be retold on barstools for many years to come. Syracuse wins and Michigan State loses. That paves the Orange’s way through St. Louis and it upends 15th-seeded Middle Tennessee State two days later. Then it’s on to Chicago, where Lydon’s alltime block of Josh Perkins’ floater seals a comeback win over Gonzaga in the Sweet 16. Where SU trailed Virginia by 15 points with less than 15 minutes on the clock — the same Virginia team which had never, in 68 games, fumbled a doubledigit halftime lead under Tony Bennett — and came back again. Where dreams turned into a dream season, one play at a time.

“Something’s happening that you just can’t explain,” said SU assistant coach Mike Hopkins, who replaced Boeheim for those nine games, after Syracuse improbably beat the Cavaliers and became the fourth double-digit seed to ever reach the Final Four.

“It’s hard to put into words. But it’s just, these guys are just doing it.”

It wasn’t supposed to happen. Any of it, really.

But it did for Syracuse, and it did for you.

You weren’t supposed to watch another month of meaningful basketball. You weren’t supposed to sit in the same spot on your couch, or wear the same orange socks every

TYLER LYDON was one of three freshmen in the rotation for SU. The whole team shattered expecations with the deep Tournament run. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

the all-around product. Gbinije couldn’t show it off in his first year after transferring from Duke, and rarely had a niche to flourish in until this season. A shift to the hardest position on the court, according to Cooney, came with a mix of intrigue and hesitation.

Gbinije struggled against smaller guards at first. He looked better off the ball at times.

He was Syracuse’s best scorer, but had to handle the ball in an offense hardly predicated on one player. As the season progressed, those questions were buried and Gbinije solidified himself as a Syracuse starter instead of a Duke transfer still finding his way.

“Just an incredible player, one of the best players in the country all year, one of the top players in the ACC,” Hopkins said. “… Everything you want from your son or daughter is how we feel about Mike.”

From home in his redshirt year at Syracuse, Gbinije watched Syracuse lose to Michigan in the Final Four. That was a game decided in the final 15 seconds. In his fourth year at Syracuse, Gbinije again watched the Orange lose in the Final Four. He was still sitting in the last 15 seconds, but this time the game was well past decided.

He was the second player to jog off the court behind Cooney, and that jog slowly turned to a walk as each player slowed to touch hands with the Syracuse fans lining the tunnel. Gbinije held a towel over his mouth as he dripped with sweat, hiding any facial expression that could sum up one final game, if there even was one.

“That finality,” Hopkins said, “is always pretty tough for anybody.” mcschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman

game or not shave, just because you thought it may help in the smallest way. You weren’t supposed to drink in a second Final Four run in four seasons — both figuratively and quite literally — whether you were an SU student at Castle Court, at Chuck’s Cafe off South Crouse Avenue or sitting with your family, with generations of Syracuse happiness and heartbreak, in a sacred living room.

But you did. You did all of it. You were right there.

The locker room Saturday, after one more SU comeback was muffled by the mega-talented Tar Heels, was quiet like that Jan. 5 night. Except this time there would be no impromptu meeting to kickstart a run. The run was finished and frozen in history.

As the players, managers and coaches ambled throughout the room — exchanging glances through swelled eyes, embracing in long hugs, slowly packing up the season — a fitting slogan was stripped across the back wall.

On top of a picture of Syracuse hoisting the Midwest regional trophy last Sunday read, “The Road Ends Here.”

It was at once a celebration, but now a chilling reminder that reality had finally caught up to this year’s unwanted Cinderella team. On April 2. Imagine that.

At the foot of the sign was a small pile of debris: three used tissues, the sports section of a day-old copy of USA Today, crumpled up notes on North Carolina, a few stray pens. Four months ago, when the season was angling downward with great speed, it could have ended like this. A bunch of misplaced pieces at the foot of college basketball glory.

Stray items worth tossing into a trash bin and leaving behind.

Then that all changed. In that 12:01 a.m. meeting in January. In St. Louis. In Chicago. In Houston. Impossibly.

This wasn’t supposed to happen for Syracuse, but then it did. Don’t ever forget that.

Jesse Dougherty is a Senior Staff Writer at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at jcdoug01@syr.edu or @dougherty_jesse.

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STRIKING MIDNIGHT This wasn’t supposed to happen for SU basketball, but then it did

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OUSTON — Malachi Richardson needed to get his mind off basketball. If only for an hour, or a minute, or even a couple of seconds of peace and quiet in his head.

He wasn’t talking to any of his teammates, but inside he was screaming at himself. They were all screaming at themselves, and while the locker room was nearly silent it really wasn’t silent at all.

Usually Richardson wouldn’t need this.

Usually he could take a loss, crumple it up and toss it out of sight and mind. But not this time. Not this loss, even if there were three months of basketball ahead.

Syracuse’s frustration, all the way back on Jan. 5, was rooted in the following: An overtime loss to Clemson, some 40 minutes earlier, after leading by three on the Tigers’ final possession of regulation.

An 0-4 start to Atlantic Coast Conference play. A season that once seemed so promising, when the Orange boarded a flight back from Atlantis undefeated at 6-0, was now slipping into the twilight zone.

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THE DOCTOR’S IN So Richardson kept his head down while tidying up his locker. He changed out of his uniform and handed his sneakers to SU’s equipment manager. He slipped headphones over his head and started toward the exit.

Then a voice stopped him short of the door. He doesn’t remember who, but guesses that it was one of the assistant coaches. He does, though, remember exactly what the voice said.

“No one is going home,” and Richardson looked at the time on his iPhone, creeping toward midnight. “We’re going to see Coach.”

What happened next will be passed down through Syracuse basketball history.

The details will likely change along the way, like an old fable with no known author.

Richardson said each player was singled out and told what to improve upon. SU walk-on

Christian White said the meeting was short and to the point. Doyin Akintobi-Adeyeye, another walk-on, said the man pacing at the front of Syracuse’s film room was energetic well into that Wednesday morning.

Something’s happening that you just can’t explain.

Mike Hopkins su assistant coach

There’s already different versions, disconnect that could be attributed to tired memories or an effort to keep a private moment just that. But there are two things that cannot be disputed. The first is that at 12:01 a.m., at the exact moment he was allowed to see his team again after a ninegame suspension, Jim Boeheim called a meeting at the Carmelo K. Anthony Center.

The second is that it righted the Orange’s stumbling season and, eventually, set up an unforgettable Final Four run.

“It really did feel like the turning point,” said SU forward Tyler Lydon, a day after his block sealed a Sweet 16 win over Gonzaga.

“We just knew that Coach was back, and we had to pick things up or the season could get lost. That was the mindset right there.”

It seems fitting that this season — once defined by inconsistency but now etched in the record books as a true test of the impossible — was turned around in such a moment. The Hollywood version would have Boeheim walking out of a dark corner, waiting for the room to settle into an earpiercing silence, then delivering a speech that would even make the hairs on the back of John Thompson Jr.’s neck stand up.

There’s no saying that happened, but there’s also no saying it didn’t. What we do know is Syracuse needed a wakeup call as the calendar turned, and the midnight return of its head coach was the first step in the unlikeli-

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women’s basketball

3 reactions to Orange’s 80-59 Final Four win over Huskies

By Connor Grossman asst. web editor

INDIANAPOLIS — Talia Walton and Briana Day lined up at halfcourt in Bankers Life Fieldhouse for Syracuse’s first-ever tipoff in a Final Four game. Day stretched her arm just above Walton’s with the ball in air, and tipped it safely into SU’s arms.

From that moment on, the Orange never lost its hold of the game. Syracuse (30-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) never trailed against Washington (26-11, 11-7 Pac-12), and beat the Huskies 80-59 to advance to the national championship game on Tuesday at 8:30p.m.

“Going up 20, we knew we were going to win,” assistant coach

Tammi Reiss said. “But to be in the championship game, it’s amazing.

If you would’ve asked this team in the beginning of the year, our goals were Elite Eight.” “… I’m kind of almost speechless. I really am. It’s amazing” The Orange are set to face off with three-time defending champions Connecticut, headlined by Syracuse-

native Breanna Stewart.

Here are three takeaways from SU’s resounding win in the season’s second-to-last game.

Boost from the bench Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman wound through nine players against Washington, and every single one of them

found the basket. The final stat line read 23-3, heavily favoring the Orange in points off the bench.

The skewed stat doesn’t account for the Huskies tight rotation, but still stood for a completely spread-out SU offense.

Syracuse’s reserve players pitched into the fun from 3-point land. Taylor see huskies page 12