Syracuse beats Uconn in 6OT

by Steve

This might go down as the greatest college basketball game ever. Jonny Flynn vs AJ Price. Bench warmers vs walk ons "whitey who is on the team only to lock arms vs whitey who is on the team only to lock arms" Wow. Six over times. YES SIX OVER TIMES. The Big East Tournament ladies and gentlemen.

In the end it came down to Flynn and Harris, the Niagara Falls products who kept scoring, kept making free throws and eventually vanquished the Huskies. Really it was the foul shooting. They were something like 21 of 24 in the six extra sessions. That is insane. This team is a notoriously mediocre foul shooting team too.

Uconn at one point, I think, the 3rd OT, had a 6 point lead. Cuse didn't have a lead for over 25 minutes but finally took the lead for the first time in the 6th frame and never gave it up. In the end it must have came back to mental toughness. And Boehiem and his crew out mental toughnessed Calhoun and co.

Another big factor of course was when Thabeet fouled out. That allowed the Orange to drive to the rim basically uncontested. The crowd was also very pro 'cuse but those aren't real excuses. I don't really know how to explain it other than Flynn beat Price and UConn had no answer for Harris down the stretch.

Oh yeah and the game was nearly over in regulation but Devo according to the announcers didn't clip his finger nails today so his finger was still on the ball when the clock read 0:00. It was a good call though.

(But god damn it I had Uconn winning the tourney in my Big East Brackets. shit)