Syracuse Takes On Arizona State In The First Four Of The NCAA Tournament
Syracuse who is out of the Atlantic Coast Conference will take on Arizona State in the first four of NCAA Tournament who is a member of the Pacific 12 Conference and who's head coach is former Duke point guard Bobby Hurley.
Syracuse comes into to the first four of the NCAA Tournament with a record of 20-13 while finishing 8-10 in the Atlantic Coast Conference this season "according tohttp://cuse.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbasket and is coming off a loss to North Carolina in their last game at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament on Wednesday.
Freshman Oshae Brissett scored 20 points with 10 rebounds to lead 11th-seeded Syracuse in a 78-59 loss to sixth-seeded North Carolina Wednesday night in the second round of the New York Life ACC Tournament. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
Sophomore Tyus Battle finished with 15 points and junior Frank Howard totaled 12 points. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
Theo Pinson posted 16 points and 11 boards to lead the Tar Heels. Kenny Williams scored 17 points and Luke Maye and Cameron Johnson each added 13. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
How it was Decided
Syracuse trimmed the North Carolina lead to nine with 4:17 remaining and a 12-2 run by the Tar Heels put the game out of reach. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
Game Summary
Back-to-back 3-pointers from Battle gave the Orange an early 8-7 lead. North Carolina retook the lead, but a Marek Dolezaj dunk along with a 3-pointer by Howard put Syracuse up 13-11."according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
The Tar Heels used an 11-0 run to take a 12-point lead with 5:16 to play in the half. Brissett knocked down a trey to send the Orange into the locker room, trailing 39-29. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
North Carolina remained in control early on in the second half and held a 56-35 lead after a 10-2 run. Howard scored seven points and Bourama Sidibe added a layup to power a 9-1 run that trimmed the Syracuse deficit to 12 with 6:43 to play. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
Howard hit a jumper and Battle converted a 3-point play to pull the Orange within nine. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
Numbers of Note
North Carolina shot 25-of-57 (.439) from the field and held Syracuse to 20-of-63 (.317) shooting. The Tar Heels finished with a 42-37 advantage in rebounds and outscored the Orange 36-22 in the paint. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
Brissett produced his 12th double-double of the year. He shot 7-of-14 from the field, 5-of-7 from beyond the arc and 1-of-2 from the charity stripe. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
Sidibe finished with four points and 10 boards on the night. "according to http://cuse.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-orange-topped-by-tar-heels-in-acc-2nd-round.aspx
Arizona State meanwhile comes into the first four of the NCAA Tournament with a record of 20-11 and 8-10 in the Pacific 12 "according to http://thesundevils.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball and is coming off a loss to Colorado in the Pac 12 Tournament a week ago today.
The Arizona State men's basketball team was unable to overcome a hot shooting performance by Colorado in a 97-85 loss to the Buffaloes in Wednesday's opening round of the Pac-12 Tournament. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
Remy Martin, the Pac-12's co-Sixth Man of the Year, led ASU with 20 points (one point short of tying his career high). Kodi Justice, Tra Holder and Shannon Evans II posted 14 points each while De'Quon Lake added 12 points for the Sun Devils (20-11), who shot 48 percent and had only three turnovers. Lake led ASU's effort on the glass with eight as he came two rebounds shy of recording a double-double. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
The Buffaloes put six players in double figures led by McKinley Wright, who had 20 points. Dominique Collier, who paced Colorado with three triples, added 17 points. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
Both teams made 13 3-pointers, but the Buffaloes (17-14), who shot 53 percent for the game, were more efficient making 62 percent of their attempts (13-21) while the Sun Devils made 41 percent (13-32). "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
Colorado also made the most of its opportunities at the free throw line where it made 90 percent of its attempts (18-20) while the Sun Devils connected on 57 percent of their free throws (12-21), 17 percentage points below their season average of 74.3 percent.
"(It was a) disappointing loss," ASU head coach Bobby Hurley said. "You want to advance. You want to give yourself an opportunity to win a championship, and it just wasn't the case today." "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
Down by four points at the half, the Sun Devils came out with a 5-0 run to take 42-41 lead after Romello White's layup with 18:45 left. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
Neither team led by more than two points the first seven-plus minutes of the second half. Justice would finally change that after his 3-pointer gave the Sun Devils a 58-54 lead with 12:51 remaining. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
ASU would continue to maintain a four-point advantage after Holder's jumper put the Sun Devils up 60-56 with just over 12 minutes left. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
The game would start to shift in Colorado's favor as the Sun Devils went nearly five minutes without a field goal. During that same stretch the Buffaloes outscored ASU 15-1 and took their first double-digit lead after George King's layup gave Colorado a 71-61 lead with 7:40 remaining. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
After Colorado's scoring run the Sun Devils tightened things up on the defensive side as they did not allow the Buffaloes to score for more than three minutes. Unfortunately for ASU it could only cut five points off the deficit at the same time Colorado's offense temporarily went into hibernation."according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
Colorado's next field goal, a layup by King, started a run of six straight points in 58 seconds that put the Buffaloes back up by 11, 77-66, with just under three minutes left. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
The Sun Devils could get no closer than seven points the rest of the way as the Buffaloes made nine free throws in the final 90 seconds to seal the win. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
"I thought we had too many breakdowns on defense" Hurley said. "We allowed the percentages that Colorado shot both in two-point field goals and particularly three-point field goals. Those percentages were excellent… I thought we had decent control of the game in the second half. Had some points, but then we stopped getting stops on defense. We went through a patch where we struggled at the free-throw line." "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
The Sun Devils led (12:08) or were tied (2:53) with the Buffaloes for more than 15 minutes of game time in the first half. The two teams combined to connect on 13 triples over the first 20 minutes (Colorado – 7-11/ ASU – 6-14). The Sun Devils led by as many as six after Evans connected from downtown with 6:54 left in the first half. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
After Martin's 3-point play put ASU up 37-33 with 2:08 remaining in the half, the Sun Devils hit a cold spell on the offensive end as they missed their last three shots of the half. The Buffaloes on the other hand hit eight of their last 10 shots and outscored the Sun Devils 8-0 over the last 1:40 of the half to take a 41-37 lead at the break. Martin led ASU with nine points in the first half. "according to http://thesundevils.com/news/2018/3/7/mens-basketball-sundevilhoops-falls-to-colorado-in-first-round-of-pac-12-tourney.aspx?path=mbball
Tip-off is set for 9:10pm from University Of Dayton Arena. The game will be televised on TRU TV. "according to http://cuse.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbasket