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On April 6, Baye Moussa Keita was at the top of the college sports food chain, a member of Syracuse's Final Four team. On April 18, he was sleeping in a cardboard box in the middle of a wind-swept Syracuse quad. Technically, Keita was fulfillin...

C.J. Fair announced that he will return to Syracuse for his senior season, claiming he made his decision not based just on what people told him but on what he believed.

Syracuse's zone defense has the been the MVP of its run to the Final Four. Why is it so successful? It starts with the players' length and speed, which have combined to devastate opponents in the NCAA tournament.

The most fundamental skill for success seems to be the ability to deal with life and all its ups and downs. Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is a master of that, and it has served him well.

This season has been illogical and crazy, which makes this Final Four a fitting one, writes Dana O'Neil.

NEW YORK -- Rick Pitino made the decision not to cut down the nets at Madison Square Garden, even though they were pretty nifty souvenirs -- the last nets from the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden. He told his Louisville team after it ...

Syracuse got the last laugh against Big East foe Georgetown in a game that did the old rivalry proud, a white knuckle 58-55 overtime win. And Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim made sure his players understood the rivalry's significance.

NEW YORK -- There isn't much time to reflect and contemplate the deep meaning of anything when you're a basketball coach. There is always another opponent to beat, another recruit to woo. And so as Jamie Dixon walked onto the Madison Square Gar...

NEW YORK -- After his team was all but decimated by Georgetown in the regular-season finale, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim lamented that he didn't care how much Otto Porter Jr. scored against the Orange, he wanted them to shut down the Hoyas' backcourt....

As the Big East prepares to close its doors, Syracuse-Georgetown at Madison Square Garden is the only appropriate way to go out, writes Dana O'Neil.

WASHINGTON D.C. -- The two bookends sat in the front and back of the room, one tucked behind the television cameras, the other before them. It's been that way for some time for John Thompson Jr. and John Thompson III, though the roles have reverse...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A quick look at Georgetown's 61-39 win over Syracuse on Saturday. Overview: The rivalry is officially closed. Syracuse will head into the record books with the overall series lead. But Georgetown took the last two, and trust me...

A father who helped start the rivalry. A son who closed it out with a resounding victory. On a nostalgic day in the nation's capital, John Thompson III's Hoyas pounded Syracuse for the Big East title and John Thompson Jr. got the last laugh.

And so here we are at the end of the Big East regular season, and yet we're back where we started. The league is still unsettled and undecided, but the same team picked at the beginning is back at the top, and that's Louisville. 1. Louisville. Don...

Four teams -- DePaul, Rutgers, Seton Hall and South Florida -- have guaranteed themselves Tuesday games in the Big East tournament. Nothing else is quite settled, though Georgetown is making a good case to think about closing the books. One case that...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- He's impossible to hate. That's the thing about Otto Porter. The latest, and perhaps last, would-be villain in the Syracuse-Georgetown rivalry is unfailingly polite and, from an Orange fan perspective, frustratingly likeable. He ...