Horrible

With every Syracuse team, except for the 2003 version, they start to play, get your hopes up, then play well below expectations and lose to a team they should crush. Most of you probably didn't see the game since the end coincided with the beginning of the NFC Championship game. Except for Mike, because Stacey hates football they went to the SU game at the Garden and missed out on football. But my brother-in-law has two TVs available so I was able to watch the Bears-Saints and be witness to another SU collapse.

The game started horribly as Anthony Mason Jr. went off and St. John’s hit 3 3s and took a 13-2 lead. Then the Red Storm went in the tank and made only 4 of their next 27 shots. But SU was almost as bad; at one point the teams missed 7 straight shots, meaning 2 minutes of no scoring at all.
But SU picked it up and took a lead right before the half, but as always they allowed a late basket (almost 2, though the second shot was gangsta swatted by Watkins) and only had a one point lead.
The Orange were flat again to start the second half and after Watkins had a dick up his ass, St. John’s got an easy dunk to take an 8 point lead.
Then Devendorf took over. He scored 16 of SU’s next 19 points culminating in a 3-pointer that gave SU at 55-53 lead (a 19-9 run).
But then Anthony Mason hit another 3 (which Nichols answered) but Avery Patterson hit a 3 and was fouled on some very lazy defense by Devendorf.
After another 3 by Patterson (7 points in 30 seconds) SU trailed by 4 with 55 seconds and St. John’s had the ball. I don’t disagree with not fouling but they played great D, forced a bad shot and no one pursued the rebound. Then the Storm passed it around for 16 seconds and SU couldn’t catch them to commit a foul. The last 55 seconds ran off without SU touching the ball.