March 28, 2016

free

MONDAY

march 28, 2016 high 53°, low 31°

t h e i n de p e n de n t s t u de n t n e w s pa p e r of s y r a c u s e , n e w yor k |

dailyorange.com

FINAL FOUR

4 THE WIN SQUARED

SYRACUSE 68, 1 VIRGINIA 62

SYRACUSE 89, 7 TENNESSEE 67

Syracuse leans on explosive second half from Richardson

Peterson breaks records en route to first-ever Final Four

10

4

By Sam Blum

By Paul Schwedelson

senior staff writer

asst. sports editor

S

C

HICAGO — Adrian Autry was trying to forget everything he knew about Virginia as he sat helpless on the Syracuse bench. The assistant coach had scouted the Cavaliers for this game. He’d scouted them for the game in January and in other games in past years.

Syracuse was down by 16 to a team that didn’t give away leads, a team that controlled tempo and shut down offenses with a purpose.

There was a certain hopelessness as he and everyone else on the Orange bench watched London Perrantes hit his sixth three pointer and pound three fingers against his temple, staring down a Virginia bench that stood in applause.

There was hopelessness as Mike Tobey, a backup center, found an open dunk to end a 7-4 Orange spurt and bring the lead back to 11.

“They always somehow compose themselves and boom, bounce the lead back out,” Autry said. “So I’m just sitting there, just kind of cheering the guys. Not trying to think about what I’ve seen over the years.”

It was a lead to end this Syracuse season. Its run to the Elite Eight was improbable, but far from magical. A better team stood in its way, and was about to end any hope at history. And that’s when the magic happened. That’s when a 15-0 run, spurred by 22 second-half points from Malachi Richardson, turned improbable into historical. A 68-62 Syracuse (23-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) win over Virginia (29-

see virginia page 17

tyler lydon (20) celebrates his team’s unlikely run to the Final Four. Just two days prior, he made a block in the final seconds against Gonzaga to help seal Syracuse’s win. Then, on Sunday, the freshman chipped in 11 points to push his team forward again. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

quentin hillsman (center) has guided SU to its first six NCAA tournament wins ever, including four this season. He’s pushed his team to the program’s first-ever Final Four. courtesy of dave eggens

IT’S THE FIRST ... ... time both Syracuse's Men's and Women's Basketball teams are in the final four in the same year.

... time that a men’s No. 10 seed has made the Final Four.

... time in Tony Bennett's career at Virginia that his team lost after leading by 10 or more at halftime.

IOUX FALLS, S.D. — Brittney Sykes and former player Michelle Van Dyke started planning well in advance for this moment. So had nearly every other Syracuse player and so had its head coach, Quentin Hillsman, who hasn’t shied away from his expectations of a national title once this season.

So when the NCAA tournament started and the Orange saw the bracket, Sykes and Van Dyke realized: They could go to the Final Four. For them, it was never a matter of if. Sykes and Van Dyke knew, after winning the regional finals, they would dump a bucket of water on Hillsman.

Hillsman told assistant coach Tammi Reiss to tell the team not to do it. He didn’t have another set of clothes and still had to go to the press conference. His players, after pressing the length of the court all season, forcing the most turnovers in the nation and shooting the third most 3s in the country, finally didn’t listen.

“They got him good,” Reiss said as she walked out of the locker room.

“Heck yeah it was my idea,” Sykes said. “… Hey, we had to do it. That’s something you got to do. That’s something you see in the movies. This is like a movie right now.”

The No. 4 seed Orange (297, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) reached its first-ever Final Four with an 89-67 win over No. 7 seed Tennessee (22-14, 8-8 Southeastern) on Sunday afternoon at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. see tennessee page 17

2 march 28, 2016

dailyorange.com

t o day ’ s w e at h e r

MEET monday | joanna agwanda

Sophomore creates magazine about hip-hop

By Gabrielle Hughes staff writer

Joanna Agwanda is bringing hip-hop into the spotlight with Syracuse University’s first-ever magazine dedicated to the genre: The Mixtape.

Agwanda, a sophomore television, radio and film major, hopes to work in the hip-hop industry after graduation. Until then, she said she needed an outlet that would encompass the music, fashion, art and dance that make up hip-hop culture.

With seven executive board members and about 25 general staff members, The Mixtape is a culmination of varied talents and interests in the many aspects of hip-hop.

Agwanda’s team is the backbone of the magazine, she said.

Creating a magazine did not come without its challenges. After hearing countless no’s for funding and press passes, Agwanda, who calls herself a naturally shy person, had to fight to fulfill her dream. She encourages others to step out of their comfort zones to follow their passions.

“If you want to start a magazine or anything on campus, just do it,” Agwanda said. “Reach out to people you do not talk to, and always keep due dates in mind.”

a.m.

noon hi 53° lo 31°

p.m.

INSIDE N • Just bee-lieve

A research scientist at Cornell University spoke at SUNY-ESF on Thursday about the decline in bee population in New York state.

Page 5

S • Final countdown

Both the SU men’s and women’s basketball teams made the Final Four. The men’s team upset No. 1 seed UVA. Page 20

c on tac t Editor@dailyorange.com News@dailyorange.com

EDITORIAL 315 443 9798

BUSINESS 315 443 2315 Sports@dailyorange.com GENERAL FAX Opinion@dailyorange.com 315 443 3689 Photo@dailyorange.com ADVERTISING 315 443 9794 Ads@dailyorange.com Pulp@dailyorange.com

JOANNA AGWANDA plans on joining the hip-hop industry when she graduates, so while at SU, she decided to start The Mixtape, a student-run magazine on campus. prince dudley staff photographer

The publication has endured multiple changes since its conception. Originally, Agwanda wanted to produce a documentary, then a website, but she realized the potential of having a physical magazine on campus. The magazine’s content ranges from serious matters to light-hearted topics, Agwanda said.

Some of Agwanda’s main influences are Lil Wayne and J. Cole.

She accredits Lil Wayne as the first performer to truly enrapt her with his “The Carter III” album, helping her realize that there’s more to hiphop than just what is heard on the radio. And about her favorite artist, Joey Bada$$, she said: “I will stand by him until the day I die.”

Although it has been a long process, Agwanda and her team are proud of the first issue, which will

be published the week of April 18.

Agwanda said she continues to be inspired by the essence of hip-hop.

“Hip-hop, to me, is the perfect example of a rose that grew out of concrete,” Agwanda said. “It allowed people in opportunity-less environments to express themselves and create opportunity.” ghhughes@syr.edu

The Daily Orange is published weekdays during the Syracuse University academic year by The Daily Orange Corp., 744 Ostrom Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210. All contents Copyright 2016 by The Daily Orange Corp. and may not be reprinted without the expressed written permission of the editor in chief. The Daily Orange is distributed on and around campus with the first two copies complimentary. Each additional copy costs $1. The Daily Orange is in no way a subsidy or associated with Syracuse University.

All contents © 2016 The Daily Orange Corporation

N

NEWS

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

See dailyorange.com

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

See dailyorange.com

Obama and SU President Barack Obama is speaking at the Syracuse Universitysponsored Toner Prize ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

See Tuesday’s paper

dailyorange.com @dailyorange march 28, 2016 • PAG E 3

FINAL FOUR

SU raises tuition for next year

SQUARED

Tuition for 2016-17 to increase by 3.9 percent

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Hundreds of Syracuse University students gathered on Castle Court on Sunday before, during and after the victories by the women’s and men’s basketball teams, which advanced both teams to the Final Four. chase guttman staff photographer

Community celebrates wins at Castle Court

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

“All I Do Is Win” by DJ Khaled played through the speakers at Castle Court as students from Syracuse University celebrated what many thought would never happen: both the women’s and men’s basketball teams won their Elite Eight games and are moving on to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament.

“All I do is win win, win no matter what,” hundreds of students sang in unison at about 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, as scores of students streamed into Cas-

A group of students raise their arms and drinks into the air on Sunday for an afternoon of basketball that saw the men’s and women’s teams advance. zach barlow asst. photo editor

tle Court. “And if you goin’ in put your hands in the air.” “‘Cuse is so f*cking lit! So

f*cking lit!” students yelled.

“Final Four! Final Four!”

More students chanted. “Let’s go

Orange, let’s go Orange.”

By 8:45 p.m., the area between Walnut Avenue and Harrison Street was overflowing with students yelling, chanting and drinking alcohol. About 30 Syracuse Police Department officers lined up across the street from Castle Court to “monitor the situation,” an SPD officer said. The officers were still lined up and watching the party as of 9:30 p.m. on Sunday.

“Yo, this is the most police I’ve ever seen,” a student yelled as he walked by.

Students started gathering at see castle page 4

Bargoers at Chuck’s Students anticipate unite for basketball men’s win at Kimmel

By Annie Palmer development editor

As hordes of Syracuse University students congregated inside the graffiti-laden walls of Chuck’s Cafe to watch the Orange fight to make it to the Final Four, the electric atmosphere was undeniable and hopeful.

In one sentence, the feeling was: clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.

And Syracuse didn’t disappoint.

By 5 p.m., soon after a historic win by the women’s basketball team, the bar slowly started to fill up. Some students came from nearby Castle Court, already feeling the buzz of lukewarm Miller Lite, looking to replace the taste of beer with the taste of success. Most were juniors and see chuck’s page 4

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

The crowd inside Kimmel Food Court for the Syracuse University men’s basketball game against the University of Virginia was small but enthusiastic on Sunday night.

For most of the night, a crowd of about 20 to 25 students inside Kimmel was mostly quiet, cheering only when SU scored.

Several SU students were

lined up waiting outside of Kimmel before it opened at 6 p.m.

Many students came into Kimmel during the game, but left soon after they got food.

Only about 10 students stayed in Kimmel throughout the whole game, but once SU shrunk the deficit and took the lead against UVA, those students started to yell and cheer non-stop.

During the second half of the

see kimmel page 4

Syracuse University will increase tuition for the 2016-17 academic year by a higher rate than it increased tuition for the 2015-16 academic year, marking the first time in over a decade that tuition will be raised at a higher rate than it was the previous year.

Tuition for full-time undergraduate students will increase 3.9 percent from $41,794 to $43,440 in 2016-17, according to an SU News release. That marks the highest rate of increase since tuition was raised by 4 percent for the 2010-11 academic year.

Room and board rates will increase between 2 and 2.5 percent, depending on the room and meal plan chosen, according to

see tuition page 8

crime briefs Here is a round-up of criminal actvitiy that happened near SU over the weekend: GRAND LARCENY A Syracuse University student, 19, was arrested on the charges of grand larceny in the fourth degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, according to a police bulletin. Grand larceny in the fourth degree is any theft of property when the value of the property exceeds $1,000. when: Wednesday where: SU MARIJUANA POSSESSION An SU student, 20, was arrested on the charge of unlawful possession of marijuana, according to a police bulletin. when: Wednesday where: SU DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED A Syracuse man, 67, was arrested on the charge of driving while influenced with a blood alcohol content higher than .18, according to a police bulletin. when: Sunday at 12:21 a.m. where: 700 block of Comstock Ave. MARIJUANA POSSESSION A Syracuse woman, 28, was arrested on the charge of prostitution, according to a police bulletin. when: Wednesday at 12:40 p.m. where: Destiny USA See dailyorange.com for our interactive crime map.

4 march 28, 2016

dailyorange.com news@dailyorange.com

FINAL FOUR SQUARED

from page 3

chuck’s

also headed to the Final Four, earlier on Sunday because she was celebrating at Castle. But she said she was keeping updated with the game the whole time.

“I’m just as hype for women’s basketball,” Frazier said.

Amya Tulipe Hosenn, a junior political science and classics dual major, said she faltered in her belief that SU would win the game during the first half, but then she came back when the team bounced back.

“They’re known for bouncing back,” Hosenn said. “It’s been awhile and we so deserve this.”

seniors, giving off the vibe that the upcoming match wouldn’t be their first rodeo on the road to the Final Four.

“In zone we trust,” said Patrick Munnia, a senior television, radio and film major, while sitting in what he said was his favorite corner booth at the bar. “I expect to make it to the Final Four.”

Moments before tipoff, students settled into booths and tables, others standing in rows in front of a large projector.

Bartender Brianna Reed said game days are some of the bar’s busiest and chaotic.

The bar brings in seven bartenders to work the space, tending to students’ orders of beer and mixed drinks. Around 10 security guards stand by at the door, by the bathroom and in the back near the pool table.

On days like these, she said the bar sometimes runs out of pitchers.

The need for pitchers is what keeps Cole Little and his counterpart “always on their feet.” He and another employee — the tall, long-haired, headphone-wearing man that’s somewhat of an enigma at the bar — trudge over the beer-slicked floors to retrieve up to 700 empty pitchers from booths and tables.

A good night is an empty night, Little said. Over the course of his 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift, the people can get overwhelming and the music — a playlist on constant repeat — annoying. It’s why his pitcher partner wears headphones all the time.

“He wears them because the music is bad,” Little said.

Throughout the two-and-a-half-hour game, the crowd’s energy ebbed and flowed. At the half, Munnia’s enthusiastic demeanor had turned to one of frustration and confusion.

“As far as 50/50’s go, we’re not winning,” Munnia said with near tears in his eyes. “My hopes are still high, though.”

But as the second half wound down, the crowd’s hopes seemed to resurge. Bridget Morgan, a senior English and textual studies and political science dual major, said she felt the comeback was reminiscent of the Orange’s whirlwind success in 2013.

If the team won, she speculated, it would be a perfect finish to her senior year. A Rochester native, she said she’s been a fan her whole life. Her favorite memories are seeing the team win the national championship in 2003 and then watching them courtside as part of the cheerleading team when they faced off against Duke University in 2013.

With minutes left in the game, the fans enveloped the bar in a constant roar of cheers. When Malachi Richardson scored consecutive baskets to extend Syracuse’s lead, bringing visions of a win closer in sight, students stood, drenched in beer and sweat, their excitement uncontainable.

And then, as the seconds on the clock reached single digits, eventually hitting zero, it was sweet, sweet victory. In this small corner of Orange Nation, it was pure bliss: Some students wrapped each other in bear hugs, while others sang and cried.

The crowd spilled out into the alley in front of Chuck’s, then into the campus streets. The disbelief that the Orange could make it to the Final Four was now gone, replaced by pride and joy.

“We’re not going to the Final Four, are we?,” one student asked his friend.

“We are,” she said.

“Let’s go,” the student replied, high-fiving another student who ran past him down Marshall Street.

smswann@syr.edu | @saramswann

apalme05@syr.edu | @annierpalmer

from page 3

castle Castle Court at about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, before the SU women’s basketball team played No. 7 Tennessee and won. The area was empty during the men’s basketball game — which started at 6:09 p.m. — but soon after the men’s team beat the University of Virginia, students headed to Castle Court to celebrate.

At one point, fireworks were set off and beer was splashed all over the crowd.

“We’re the team of destiny,” said Jacob Von Engelhardt, a junior biochemistry and math dual major. “This is the best school on Earth!”

Engelhardt said the atmosphere was electric and that he was mostly in shock that SU won, but added that he’s hopeful for SU’s chances in the Final Four.

Jake Brown, a sophomore management major, said he watched the game in his dorm room with some of his fraternity brothers. He said they went wild when SU mounted a comeback to defeat UVA. When SU won, he said the feeling was indescribable.

“We had the heart to win — and that’s what this campus is all about,” Brown said.

For Noah Rhynhart, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, this year is significant because he is ending his time at SU the same way it began — with the SU men’s basketball team going to the Final Four.

“I’m a senior now, so it’s cool because this happened to me my freshman year,” Rhynhart said. “But this time it wasn’t expected, I mean, we were the No. 10 seed.”

He added that although the SU men’s team also went to the Final Four his freshman year, this year is “a little crazier.” rsandler@syr.edu

from page 3

kimmel game, all eyes were glued to the many television screens inside Kimmel — all playing the SU game — and even the Kimmel employees stood around and watched the game.

With about four minutes left in the game, Department of Public Safety officer Joe Shanley — commonly known as “Officer Friendly” to SU students — joined the Kimmel crowd to watch the game.

“Hey guys,” he greeted. “Let’s keep our fingers crossed! I’m so nervous.”

When the final buzzer sounded, the

1. A bustling Castle Court filled with hundreds of Syracuse University students eager to celebrate SU’s basketball successes on Sunday. chase guttman staff photographer 2. Students clad in jerseys and other orange SU gear gathered on the Castle Court grounds and hung off apartment balconies. zach barlow asst. photo editor 3. Students pose together during the celebration, which spanned from the start of the women’s win to the aftermath of the men’s victory. zach barlow asst. photo editor

screaming and cheering in Kimmel was at an all-time high.

A few students stood on their seats, jumping up and down with excitement as the SU men’s basketball team solidified its spot in the NCAA Tournament Final Four by topping No. 1 seed Virginia 68-62.

Emma Frazier, a senior communications and rhetorical studies major, said at halftime that if SU won and went onto the Final Four she would “buy more beer and go to Castle (Court)” to celebrate.

She added that she didn’t watch the SU women’s basketball team, which won in its game against No. 7 seed Tennessee and is

ESF every monday in news

dailyorange.com @dailyorange march 28, 2016

•

PAG E 5

BUZZKILL

illustration by devyn passaretti head illustrator

Scientist explains why bee population is declining in New York state

By Taylor Watson staff writer

S

cott McArt, a research scientist in the Department of Entomology at Cornell University, is looking to find out why there has been a decline in the bee population.

McArt gave a presentation on the loss of bee colonies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry on Thursday as part of the Adaptive Peaks Seminar Series. During the presentation, he posed the question of why the pollinators are doing so poorly, and explained research he has done to try to determine the answer.

In 2014-15, New York state lost 54.1 percent of its honey bee colonies, which is above the national average, McArt said.

This problem is not a problem to only honey bees, as other types of bees and pollinators are experiencing a decline as well.

Bees serve as crucial pollinators. Onethird of the food people eat is reliant upon pollinators, while the other two-thirds are somewhat reliant on pollinators, McArt said.

There are six main drivers of pollinator loss, McArt said. They are agrochemicals including insecticides, fungicides and herbicides; pests and pathogens; climate change; lack of habitat diversity; and poor management practices by beekeepers.

While he recognizes these factors individually, McArt said it is important to notice the interaction between the factors, such as agrochemicals leading to an increase in the susceptibility of bees to pests and pathogens.

Pests and pathogens can also be tied to poor beekeeping, he added.

“About 95 percent of beekeepers in New York are hobby beekeepers, and they are new at it,” McArt said. “They don’t know they have to treat for varroa mites. It is not surprising that they are losing over 50 percent of colonies in this state — varroa

will wipe out your colony very quickly.”

One of the main research efforts in McArt’s lab is to find the relative importance of the different factors. By knowing this, specific ways of preventing the bee decline can be targeted, he said.

McArt participated in a landscape analysis that suggested the strongest predictor of honey bee colony loss is exposure to fungicides.

Fungicides are the most prevalent residue brought by honey bees to colonies, and this is true for bumble bees as well, McArt said.

If the fungicide load in the pollen is increased, there is an increase in the probability of bees becoming infected with Nosema, McArt said. Nosema is a fungus that attacks the gut of the honey bee, according to the Advance Science website.

This poses an issue, as growers have no restrictions on how much fungicide they can spray during bloom, McArt said.

McArt also discussed an ongoing

research project involving 120 experimental hives being placed in 30 apple orchards throughout New York state. The hives were assessed last summer for pathogens, parasites, diet and colony performance before and after pollination and every three weeks.

Researchers determined a 13 percent summer loss rate for the honey bee colonies, which McArt said was typical across New York state.

Once the weather warms up, the research team will assess the hives to determine the winter loss rates. McArt said he is confident the team will be able to pull out a factor that is not pesticides, but added that the team cannot be sure until the winter loss rates are determined.

As a member of a task force, McArt played a role in New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s January decision to propose $500,000 in his executive budget for the Pollinator Protection Plan. On April 1, specific funding allocations will be unveiled. tnwatson@syr.edu

O

Cultural shock Liberal columnist Joanna Orland argues that a municipal ID technicality in NYC perpetuates elitism in cultural institutions.

See dailyorange.com

OPINION

dailyorange.com @dailyorange march 28, 2016 • PAG E 7

business

Tax break deal would disrupt county

P

erhaps there will come a time when Syracuse will cease to be manipulated by greedy corporations, but for now it appears to be Syracuse’s destiny.

The company behind the Destiny USA shopping mall has announced plans to move forward with building a 209-room hotel across the street from the shopping center. This in itself is perfectly fine, but what has spurred public debate is Pyramid Management Group’s — Destiny USA’s parent company’s — announcement that it will be seeking $6.84 million in tax exemptions from the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency (OCIDA).

In a public hearing on Friday, citizens presented mixed opinions with a majority appearing to back the tax breaks: Syracuse. com reported that those in favor of the tax breaks outnumbered those against three to one with a majority citing the jobs the project would create as the ultimate decision-making factor.

And grievances by those who oppose the tax exemptions are certainly justified: Destiny’s proposed concessions to the OCIDA are not nearly enough to justify the proposal and Destiny should fund the hotel itself. As appealing as the jobs prospects are for city residents, betting tax revenue on a project that has no guaranteed success is a wager Syracuse — and its citizens that benefit from programs funded by tax money — cannot afford to make.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner rightfully acknowledged in a statement earlier this month that the corporation has and will continue to garner more than $700 million dollars in tax savings due to a disastrous 30-year payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) arranged for the mall’s expansion back in 2000.

Considering the meeting was held at 9 a.m. on a Friday when most people’s work days are just starting, it is clear that neither

THEO HORN

IT’S NOT PERSONAL, IT’S BUSINESS Destiny nor OCIDA care much about city residents’ opinions.

This apathy is readily apparent in the relatively small compromises that Destiny is offering for the tax exemptions: 15 percent of the contractors hired to build the hotel will be minority- and/ or womenowned business, and 50 percent of the finished hotel’s 74 workers will be Syracuse residents. If Destiny wants to win back the city, it should start with larger hiring quotas.

The Urban Jobs Task Force, a Syracuse-based organization which aims to create local jobs, has argued that these figures are simply unacceptable and have called for at least 20 percent of the contractors to be minority- or women-headed businesses and 20 percent of the construction workers be Syracuse residents.

In either case, the jobs that would be created do not begin to compare to the $6.84 million dollars in tax revenue the city and county would lose if entered into the deal. Destiny, which has a history of entering into deals with the city only to back out, offers up the paltry sums of $200,000 and $75,000 if it fails to reach its selfimposed hiring and employment goals. Not only are these objectives far too low for the scope of the project, the penalties for not sticking to them provide little insurance on the sizable investment Onondaga County would be making.

Aggie Lane, president of the Urban Jobs Task Force, was quick to cite that OCIDA’s involvement is unusual as city projects are typically off limits to the larger county group and is an overstep of the agency’s bounds.

“There is already a Syracuse Industrial Development Agency set up,” Lane said. “There has been a tacit agreement between them (Syracuse Industrial Development

t h e i n de p e n de n t s t u de n t n e w s pa p e r of s y r ac u s e , n e w yor k

Mara Corbett

Justin Mattingly

EDITOR IN CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

News Editor Alexa Torrens Editorial Editor Alexa Diaz Sports Editor Matt Schneidman Feature Editor Rachel Gilbert Feature Editor Kathryn Krawczyk Presentation Director Chloe Meister Photo Editor Riley Bunch Head Illustrator Devyn Passaretti Copy Chief Ali Linan Development Editor Annie Palmer Digital Editor Jon Mettus Social Media Director Jacob Gedetsis Video Editor Nick Coggiola Web Developer Brendan Winter Asst. News Editor Michael Burke Asst. News Editor Rachel Sandler

Asst. News Editor Asst. Editorial Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Photo Editor Asst. Photo Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Asst. Copy Editor Asst. Copy Editor

Sara Swann Caroline Colvin Alex Archambault Lizzie Michael Chris Libonati Paul Schwedelson Zach Barlow Liam Sheehan Emma Comtois Matthew Hankin Lucy Naland Kiran Ramsey Colleen Simms Estella Xian Sam Fortier Brigid Kennedy

Agency) and OCIDA that projects in Syracuse would be handled by the Syracuse agency rather than the broader Onondaga county agency.”

In contrast, Destiny representatives argue that building the hotel will create more tourism for the city, especially from Canadian visitors that may need a place to stay. Once those tourists arrive, it’s likely they will also spend money not just on Destiny, but other city businesses. This potential revenue may be hard to turn away. However, this is a gamble — a gamble that uses tax revenue as a wager.

With tourism from Canada dropping due to currency exchange rates, Destiny’s strategy to draw visitors back to Syracuse beyond building the hotel is unknown. With a turbulent and uncertain future facing the city and its economy, the assured property tax revenue the city would earn is by far the safer and smarter option than gambling on the deceitful Destiny.

“There should be no deal because Destiny has taken so much already,” said Lane. “If they want the hotel, they can build it themselves.”

The hotel would be a great fixture for Syracuse, but Destiny, as a part of a larger corporation, should tap into its own expansive resources to carry out the project without trying to bleed money out of a struggling city.

If Destiny builds the hotel itself and gives back to the community with employment agreements and hiring deals, the corporation could work to repair some of the bad blood rightfully earned with the city to undo more than a decade of mistrust and work toward a relationship that benefits the two intertwined entities.

Theo Horn is a sophomore political science and public policy dual major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at tahorn@syr.edu.

Asst. Copy Editor Tomer Langer Asst. Copy Editor Danny Mantooth Asst. Copy Editor Satoshi Sugiyama Asst. Copy Editor Clare Ramirez Asst. Web Editor Alex Erdekian Asst. Web Editor Connor Grossman Asst. Web Editor Delaney Van Wey General Manager Christopher Russo IT Manager Maxwell Burggraf Business Assistant Tim Bennett Advertising Manager Lucy Sutphin Advertising Representative Emily Chalon Advertising Representative Manuel Garcia Advertising Representative David Ondrich Advertising Representative Kylie Packer Advertising Representative Gonzalo Rodriguez

Digital Sales

Alexis Strahl

Special Events Coordinator

Linda Bamba

Social Media Manager

Larry Stansbury

Social Media Manager

Sarah Stewart

Special Events Coordinator Linda Bamba Advertising Design Manager Abigail Starobin Advertising Designer Cyrstal Yanf Advertising Designer Nicole Corcoran Circulation Manager

Charles Plumpton

Student Circulation Manager

Michael Rempter

scribble

editorial board

Assessing aid should come before wage raises Federal Work Study and on-campus employment are important components of maintaining college affordability. But assessing the distribution of financial aid should take precedent when having a job while attending school is not a necessity for all student workers.

New York University announced Thursday that it will adopt a $15 per hour minimum wage for Work-Study recipients and other student workers in the 2018-19 academic school year. The increase will work in three phases, starting with a base of $12 an hour next year. Andrew Hamilton, the president of NYU, said in a memo that the move comes as a part of making NYU more affordable after students have raised fiscal concerns.

NYU’s action comes as New York state’s own minimum wage legislation is coursing its way through Albany. But, in cases like those of NYU and other universities that may be considering a similar measure, more emphasis should be placed on fairly leveling the financial aid playing field by redistributing funds accordingly for students who are in need than increasing student wages across the board.

Student workers — including those who participate in WorkStudy — at NYU are currently covered by New York state’s $9 minimum wage. Hamilton said he collaborated with the Budget Office and other administrative members to assess student pay practices so that determining pay levels for student work is more effective with straightforward

hiring processes.

But a universal minimum of $15 per hour within university communities may lead to a system in which students who are not employed out of necessity — but to more comfortably enjoy their college experience — are receiving extraneous funds that could have been more effectively invested in enhanced financial aid packages to help students pay off student loans and other imperative academic costs.

what is work study?

Work Study is a need-based financial aid award funded in which students are employed by the federal government to earn the awarded aid.

Although the memo did not specify exactly how NYU will be funding the difference for these raises, if other college campuses were to follow suit, institutions should be careful to ensure that the wage increases would not spur counterintuitive costs — including tuition hikes or additional fees — to cancel out the funds students would be receiving.

And while a wage increase for Work-Study students alone could warrant a discussion, universities should take into consideration that the comprehensive restructuring of a financial aid system would directly benefit students who are in need, before financiallysound student workers receive what could be considered an unnecessary raise.

8 march 28, 2016

dailyorange.com news@dailyorange.com

Judge dismisses Laurie Fine, ESPN defamation case

By Delaney Van Wey asst. web editor

A new development in Laurie Fine’s libel lawsuit against ESPN may signal the end of the Bernie Fine case.

A judge on Friday dismissed Laurie Fine’s case against the television network. Fine, the wife of former Syracuse University men’s basketball assistant coach Bernie Fine, sued ESPN in 2012 claiming the network aired statements that were false and defamatory.

The network reported allegations that Bernie Fine molested two ball boys at SU and that

Laurie Fine had had sex with one of them.

In 2011, ESPN also aired a taped phone call between Laurie Fine and Bobby Davis, a former SU ball boy who claimed Bernie Fine molested him.

Laurie Fine has claimed the phone call was about loaning money and NCAA violations, not sex. Davis recorded the call to prove his allegations against Bernie Fine.

The judge, Chief United States Magistrate David Peebles, granted ESPN’s motion labeling Laurie Fine as a limited purpose public figure, which means she would have to prove that ESPN published its reports

with actual malice against her.

Laurie Fine’s repeated appearances on television and radio shows before the accusations and her public involvement in the controversies surrounding her husband were proof that she was a public figure, according to the decision.

Peebles said “a reasonable factfinder” would be unable to detect actual malice on behalf of ESPN from the evidence in record.

Actual malice would have required the network to know that it was reporting false statements, according to the decision.

Peebles said there was “not one shred of

evidence” that showed ESPN knew that what it was reporting was false, or that it should have known this.

If Laurie Fine chooses to not appeal the decision, this would be the last of the court cases involving Bernie Fine, according to Syracuse.com.

In March 2014, a federal judge denied ESPN’s motion to dismiss this case. The judge said he could not decide if ESPN’s reporting was “fair and true.”

In 2013, Bernie Fine dropped his $11 million defamation lawsuit against ESPN. dovanwey@syr.edu

Study shows women are likely to live longer with a cost

By Nicole Valinote contributing writer

Researchers from Syracuse University and the University of Michigan have recently published a study that shows women live longer lives than men, but are also more likely to develop disabilities later in life.

The three researchers involved in the study analyzed data from studies conducted in 1982, 2004 and 2011, and the study’s participants were ages 65 and older and on Medicare, according to the study.

Douglas Wolf, a researcher on the study and a professor of public administration and international affairs at SU, said one of the explicit goals of the project was to make valid comparisons to the earlier data that had already been available.

“This notion of active life expectancy has been an active area of research since the ‘80s

and we saw this as an opportunity not only to produce up-to-date findings but also show how they relate to long-term trends over a 30-year period,” Wolf said.

life expectancy in the u.s. by gender women 81 years men 76 years population reference bureau (2014)

The study found that the life expectancy of men and women continued to rise over the years, but that men’s life expectancy had increased at a higher rate than women’s.

“The great improvements over the 20th century that go along with better hygiene,

better medical treatment, more wealth and so on produced dramatic improvement, but that can’t go on forever,” Wolf said, explaining why the increase in women’s life expectancy has slowed.

Wolf added that it’s possible that women are reaching the limit to human life expectancy faster.

Other possibilities, Wolf said, include biological, lifestyle and behavioral differences between women and men.

“Women used to smoke at much lower rates than men but then they started to smoke more, which is not a smart thing to do. So they lost ground in that respect.” Wolf said.

Sandra Lane, a professor of public health and anthropology at SU, said she would also predict women’s slowing life expectancy to be a result of smoking.

Lane added that it’s also possible that women’s life expectancy is increasing more slowly since women are now working in positions that are high-risk for death and injury. For example, she pointed out how the United States government now allows women in the military to participate in all combat roles.

The study also found that women not only have a higher risk of disabilities than men, but that they also have a higher risk of disabilities than previously recorded.

Wolf said the percentage of people with dis-

abilities in the U.S. had been decreasing until around 2000, when it plateaued. Now the percentage of women with disabilities is increasing.

“We weren’t surprised to see further evidence that it had stopped,” he said. “I don’t think we were expecting that it had actually reversed for women.”

Lane said one possibility for why women are at a higher risk of developing disabilities is that girls and women have stronger immune systems than men and boys.

“Probably because we have babies,” Lane said.

Lane said it’s possible that women’s stronger immune systems are more likely to attack the body itself. This can lead to an increased risk of autoimmune disorders such as lupus and Type 1 diabetes, she said.

Wolf said that in order to improve the lives of older women with and without disabilities, people should look into prevention and adaptation. Some examples of methods people can take to improve the lives of older women is to facilitate increased social interaction, find ways to overcome reduced financial resources and create healthy eating programs and fall prevention programs.

“There’s lots of things, and each thing may have just have just a tiny little benefit,” Wolf said. “If you do lots of things, maybe you can get a big benefit.”

from page 3

That trend is now over, though, with tuition going up 0.4 percent more for 2016-17 than it was for the current academic year.

The 2016-17 budget will also include a 5.6 percent increase in the amount of financial aid offered by SU, with a total of $247 million reserved for undergraduates, according to the release.

There will also be a 6.3 percent increase in the minimum graduate assistant stipend, according to the release.

Each of those rates were recently approved by the Board of Trustees Executive Committee, according to the release.

nvalinot@syr.edu

tuition

TUFTS SUMMER SESSION 2016 prepare. eXpaND. Develop.

the release.

Tuition has increased every year at SU over the past 10 years, but since at least the 200607 academic year, the rate of those increases has been on a steady decline, according to SU’s Office of Budget and Planning.

Tuition was increased by 5.9 percent in 2006-07, 5.7 percent in 2007-08, 5.6 percent in 2008-09, 4.5 percent in 2009-10, 4 percent in 2010-11, 3.8 percent in 2011-12, 3.6 percent in 2012-13, 3.6 percent in 2013-14, 3.6 percent in 2014-15 and 3.5 percent in 2015-16.

going up

school of arts and sciences | school of engineering

go.tufts.edu/summer

$43,440

Tuition has steadily been increasing at Syracuse University over the past 10 years. $41,794 $40,380

TUITION

Three sessioNs: May 25–July 1 | July 5–augusT 12 | May 25–augusT 12

mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

$38,970 $37,610 $36,300 $34,970

Follow us on facebook:

College & Pre-College Programs Day & Evening Classes Affordable Tuition Outstanding Tufts Faculty Online Courses

$33,630 $32,180 $30,470 $28,820

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

SCHOOL YEAR

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

P

Netflix and chill April is almost here, which means the Netflix lineup is changing. TV columnist Kyle Stevens has you covered with all of the updates.

See dailyorange.com

Bus Stop A group of Syracuse University seniors are raising money to get their startup, Out There Productions, off the ground.

See Tuesday’s paper

PULP

Formula 1 Automotive columnist Zac Palmer is an adrenaline junkie, which is why the high speeds of track days appeal to him.

See dailyorange.com

dailyorange.com @dailyorange march 28, 2016

•

PAG E 9

BEN ALTMAN was traveling the world, visiting different sites of mass murder and violence, when he realized he had stumbled across a new photography project. “Site/Sight” is a collection of photos featuring tourists at historic sites interacting with the memorials through their cameras.

connor martin staff photographer

BEHIND THE LENS Photographer Ben Altman showcases “Site/Sight” exhibit at Light Work Gallery

By Lizzie Michael asst. feature editor

A

woman stood in front of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, her billowy red windbreaker and black headphones covering her ears, hinting she was a tourist. As she pointed a small digital camera at the site, she had no idea a photographer standing behind her was capturing the intimate moment.

The photographer, Ben Altman, snapped the picture and moved on. Just as interested in the tourists as he was in the memorials, he had been taking photos like this for months as part of a project called “Site/Sight.”

“Site/Sight” opened March 21 at the Light Work Hallway Gallery located on the edge of the Syracuse University campus and will run until July 22. The photo collection that strives to show the relationship between the locations of violent historical turning points, contrasting how they affect people who see them today. “(It’s about) being sympathetic to the idea that you need to sometimes use the cameras as a kind of distancing device to put between yourself and the awfulness,” Altman explained.

The photos in the gallery were taken at various sites of mass murder and violence across the world. The events that occurred at these places were so powerful that they became turning points in history, Altman said. Rather than take photos of the memorials themselves, however, Altman chose to photograph the backs of tourists’ cameras as they took their own pictures.

John Mannion, Light Work’s master printer, said he thinks Altman’s work communicates an interesting social comment.

In awful places such as these, he said people tend feel the need to document their visit because of the historical significance of the location.

“Most all of us have a camera, and have a compulsion because of that to make photographs in places that feel, or almost sort of demand, that kind of attention,” Mannion said.

camera of choice Ben Altman used a 1940 4x5 press camera to photograph “Site/Sight.” Here are some quick fire facts about this unorthodox and old-fashioned camera: 1• The camera had a depth of field of only about half an inch.

2• Two images can be seen when look ing through the viewfinder — for the picture to be in focus, the two images would have to overlap.

3• The most famous press camera was the Speed Graphic, which was first produced in 1912.

The show is arranged so the people in the photos are angled toward each other, almost as if they are having a conversation, Altman said. He hopes this setup will encourage viewers to think critically about the connection between atrocities, as well as their own personal engagement with memorials, he said.

Altman was born and raised in Brighton, England, and later got his degree in physics while studying in London.

Upon completing his studies, he relocated to the United States and eventually, he and his wife began to travel the world for her job as a distinguished author and now law professor at Cornell University.

It was in Hong Kong, where they lived for many months, that Altman discovered photography was something he was interested in doing full-time.

Altman worked as a commercial photographer in Chicago for nearly 15 years before the job began to wear him out. He stopped seeking out new clients and slowly decreased his workload until he didn’t have a single client left.

“I didn’t do food, fashion or weddings,” Altman joked, “but I’d do about anything else.”

It wasn’t until about 16 years ago, when Altman was backpacking through the American West, that his fascination with photography began to seep back into his life. He said he realized political and historical work was what really piqued his interest in the art form.

The turning point in his career came in 2005, he said.

Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General of the United States, testified to Congress in an attempt to justify the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique. Altman said Gonzales was lying through his teeth, and eventually decided he should use photography to protest it.

Citing a lack of photographic evidence of the interrogation techniques used in Guantanamo Bay as his influence, Altman created a series of seven photos called “Guantánamo Basement.” In it, Altman took portraits of himself being subjected to various torture techniques used for interrogation, such as see

altman page 10

10 march 28, 2016

dailyorange.com pulp@dailyorange.com

movie

‘Batman v Superman’ fails to live up to Marvel franchises

“B

atman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” registered the largest pre-summer opening weekend ever this weekend. Is that an arbitrary record? Kind of, but it speaks to the success this movie has found.

People are coming out of the woodwork to see a superhero matchup that has been decades in the making. No matter what, this film was going to be successful, so the big question is if this film is successful enough to both satisfy its fans and launch an entirely new franchise.

Based on artistic merit, this movie is not great. Is it as horrible as the Internet would make one think the last few days? Far from it.

But it is far from a superhero masterpiece.

Ultimately though, the film lives up to the title. There is Batman, there is Superman, and they fight. If you are in the theater to see that battle, then you will likely leave satisfied. However, there should be more to a movie than just fighting, and that is at the core of what bothered me most about the film: gratuitous violence.

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” is a violent, violent film that is basically shooting and explosions for almost three hours.

While violence is necessary in a movie about fighting and, ultimately war, the use of violence would be most effective if used sparingly. In this, the violence is nonstop, so eventually the audience is desensitized.

The more it is used, the less punch it packs, and by the end of the film the violence is nothing more than staged choreography and special effects.

While I found the excessive violence to be the most bothersome aspect of the film, it ultimately is a symptom of a larger problem in “Batman v Superman,” and likely in upcoming DC comic movies: lack of heart. “Batman v Superman” was an extremely dark movie, and while I appreciate this serious tone to bring legitimacy to the fran-

from page 9

altman waterboarding and electrocution.

“I was sort of referencing the absurdity of the government’s policy,” Altman said. “But also, I think, one of the key aspects of that project was that it was photographing some things that can’t be seen.”

This project reignited Altman’s passion, and made him realize his curiosity for events of atrocities that have occurred throughout human history. He said these moments of mass violence were turning points for civilizations and their repercussions still influence the world today.

This realization would later provide part of the influence for “Site/Sight.” The project started when Altman was traveling the world.

“Almost as kind of a joke, I started photographing the backside of people’s cameras just for something to do,” Altman said with a laugh. “It was kind of a little protest in a way.”

Altman realized that he could continue this project during his wife’s seven-month sabbatical, when they traveled the world. He was able to photograph countries like China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Russia, Czech Republic, England, Poland and Germany, to name a few. He also went to sites in the United States, including the World Trade Center and the site of the Oklahoma City bombings.

“It’s actually very difficult to get one of these photographs, because people don’t spend much time taking photographs,” Altman said. “I have to be close enough so

ERIK BENJAMIN

DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY chise, I wish there was evidence of people having fun making this movie.

For all of the impressive visual effects, fight sequences and emotional turmoil of the characters, the whole film was very formulaic. You could feel the men in suits crafting this movie beat by beat, and never did they stop and think, “Is this film too serious?” or “Are we absolutely positive the fans will enjoy this?”

Instead, they simply put Batman and Superman in the film, made the film as dark and serious as possible, promoted the film with all the marketing power in the world and then unleashed it to the fans.

It all comes down to the fact that the DC Superman and Batman universe is trying to play catch up to the success of “The Avengers.”

But unlike Marvel, which took its time and created sophisticated characterizations of its heroes, Warner Brothers is pushing years of exposition into one film. “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” is extremely unorganized, and is crammed with so much exposition and world-building that one can’t just enjoy the film they are watching.

For all of the excitement of seeing Batman and Superman fight, this film is ultimately just a steppingstone for a bigger project: the Justice League. That’s totally OK, but it would be better if the people creating this movie could take their time and give us a heartfelt story worth sharing instead of superhero CliffsNotes.

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

that when they take out their camera, I can sneak up behind them and take my photograph before they remove the camera or take it down.”

Although the exhibit had been shown at the Houston Center for Photography and at the prestigious Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, Mary Lee Hodgens, the associate director of Light Work, discovered the project through Lenscratch.com.

Fascinated by the series and familiar with Altman’s work through his previous shows at ArtRage Gallery, also in Syracuse, she decided to bring the photos to Light Work.

“Altman is exposing the ways in which we as ordinary people interact with the history of war, atrocities, and genocide, and how our phone screens are a way to distance ourselves from life,” Hodgens said in an email.

Altman took the photographs using a hand-held 4-by-5 press camera from the 1940s to get the shots. Because the camera is heavy and uses sheet film, Altman could only take about ten photos per day.

Although Altman’s camera is unorthodox, he said that despite the odd look every now and then he mostly went unnoticed at the tourist sites. Now that the gallery is completed, he said he’s content to move on and work on a new project because he gets to continue doing what he loves.

Said Altman: “It took probably seven or eight years of doing different sorts of things and fooling around with it until I sort of discovered what it was that really interested me.” emmichae@syr.edu

From the

kitchen

Rachel’s Restaurant 801 University Ave. 315-475-3000 Mon.-Sun. 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Taste: 3/5 Quality: 3/5

every monday in p u l p

Scene: 5/5 Service: 3/5

Price: 3/5 Total: 3.4

dailyorange.com @dailyorange march 28, 2016 PAG E 11

GOUDA 1

VIBES Mac and cheese is highlight of menu at Rachel’s Restaurant in the Sheraton

2

1. Rachel’s giant mac and cheese bowl was the best pick on the menu, with cellentani pasta coated in almost too much smoked gouda cheese.

2. Overly-dressed dishes seemed to be a trend on Rachel’s menu, with the Chicken Caesar Salad slathered in dressing and stacked with charcoal-grilled chicken.

Text By Casey Russell staff writer

Photos By Kelli Mosher staff photographer

T

he Sheraton Hotel on University Avenue is just one of many familiar sights for Syracuse University students.

As they hustle to and from Starbucks or Marshall Street, students pass by constantly. However, it’s rare they have reason to go inside.

I had the pleasure of dining at Rachel’s Restaurant inside the Sheraton. It’s in the perfect location for students to grab a nondining hall, non-GrubHub, non-weird-kitchen-concoction-thattastes-better-than-it-looks meal at an affordable price.

The ambiance was fairly typical of an American restaurant. It was quiet at 1 p.m. on a Friday and seemed to lack a lunch rush, but the calm demeanor of the wait staff and the quiet dining area was a welcome change from the typical restaurant bustle.

I will note that the interior design of the restaurant screamed “I’m a hotel restaurant.” The décor was very neutral and plain.

At lunch time, it offered a $15 dollar all-you-can-eat buffet as well as a menu. Its specials of the day included a New England clam chowder. It was tempting, but not quite enough for a bornand-raised Massachusetts girl with high standards for seafood, and clam chowder in particular.

The lunch menu was fairly basic and included favorites people with all different tastes could enjoy. There were traditional turkey clubs, burgers, Caesar salad and pizza options. All the choices

looked tasty, but by no means special.

A colleague informed me that Rachel’s mac and cheese was really good. I can’t resist a good mac and cheese, so I took her up on the suggestion and ordered the smoked gouda mac and cheese.

The combination of one of the world’s best cheeses and one of the world’s best dishes sealed the deal.

on the menu Smoked Gouda Mac and Cheese Chicken Caesar Salad

It definitely did not disappoint. The server brought me a huge entrée sized bowl of the stuff. On the menu, it was listed under an “entrée” category, but I don’t know if my brain processed that I was ordering a whole huge bowl of mac and cheese.

There was a ton of cheese sauce, much more than actually necessary for the pasta. It was really creamy and packed with smoked gouda goodness. It used cellentani pasta, and its spiral, grooved

and tube-like shape was prefect for holding onto all the gooey wonderful cheesiness. I approve.

It was incredibly filling and even though I came into the restaurant decently hungry, I only managed to eat about a quarter of what they served me. But hey, I’ll take leftovers — which I ate later that night. Sometimes with mac and cheese, the leftovers aren’t as good as they were fresh off the stove. But even reheated in the microwave, I thought it was just as good.

For good measure, I also had a chicken Caesar salad. The grilled chicken was tender even though it had been on the charcoal. The lettuce was crisp, but they did mix in a lot of dressing into the salad. Not really my taste, as I prefer a lighter coat of dressing, but not something that many people would have a problem with.

The food was good, but not special. I liked what I ate, but I think it was much more appealing to me in the moment.

As I look back and reflect on the atmosphere, the menu, the flavors, I am not blown away. The mac and cheese was excellent, but I’d be just as content with some Annie’s from a box as I would be with Rachel’s.

As a plus, the food was not expensive, as it can sometimes get in hotel restaurants.

Would I return? Maybe. If I really felt like I needed to not eat dining hall food, easy mac or peanut butter and jelly, I would. But with the freedom to explore new restaurants every week, I think I’d rather return to Phoebe’s Restaurant and Coffee Lounge, which isn’t far from campus either. cmrussel@syr.edu

march 28, 2016 13

dailyorange.com sports@dailyorange.com

men’s basketball

Virginia caves under the pressue of Syracuse’s press

By Matt Schneidman sports editor

CHICAGO — The style of offense Virginia predicated its dominance on, the kind that dismantled, dissected and chewed apart every piece of the zone for over 30 minutes, was fading. And fading fast.

The Cavaliers built a 16-point lead that seemed insurmountable. A lead sure to shatter Syracuse’s glass slipper with Virginia’s methodical execution of threading passes and slipping cuts through a zone whose cracks were stretched open wider than in any of the Orange’s prior three games.

So with under 10 minutes remaining in the second half and SU trailing by double digits, its Cinderella run on the brink, Syracuse started to press. It had to. Against a team who is arguably the best in the country at doing what SU was trying to force it not to.

“We weren’t going to cut a 15-point lead against Virginia down by playing half court,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said. “The best we could hope for is lose the game by seven, six or seven, if we play well … if we play well.”

One of the first times Syracuse picked up full court, Virginia easily broke the press for a seamless layup, proving its code wouldn’t crack like the defense Syracuse’s predicates its own success on. But slowly, the Orange chipped away. With each steal, each forced shot, each sped-up possession, the Cavaliers were inched out of their method of dominance and into a defensive mode. Not defense

like the stringent kind that ranked secondbest in the country this season, but a defense that was slowly crumbling at the hands of a raging Syracuse offense that threatened to make a comeback once unimaginable.

When London Perrantes missed a layup in transition with just less than six minutes left and Malachi Richardson converted an acrobatic layup at the other end, Syracuse took a 59-58 lead less than three minutes after it trailed by double digits. Now it was Syracuse dictating the pace and Virginia on its heels, a stark contrast that defied the logic of everything in the game up to that point. The 10th-seeded Orange (2313, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) held onto that lead and somehow, some way, flipped the game on its head to pull off a stunning 68-62 upset of top-seeded Virginia (29-8, 13-5) and advance to the Final Four.

“They’re a tough team to press … good guards and old experienced guards,” Trevor Cooney said. “It just worked for us and some things just fall into place.”

Perrantes hit five 3-pointers in the first half and dictated a game whose separation was 14 at the break. He’s a junior. Malcolm Brogdon, one of four finalists for the 2016 Naismith Award began the second half receiving passes at the foul line and orchestrating an offense that had an answer for any rotation, trap or pressure Syracuse put on. He’s a senior.

The two leading Virginia along a seemingly clear path to the Final Four now had a challenge that, on the surface, was elemen-

men’s lacrosse

Sergio Salcido has career day despite OT loss to Duke

By Jon Mettus digital editor

DURHAM, N.C. — Sergio Salcido barreled toward the net with one goal in mind: “make him make a save.” In Salcido’s four attempts prior, Duke goalie Danny Fowler hadn’t been able to as the small, speedy midfielder found the back of the net each time.

Another goal would have given the Orange a 16-15 lead with just 12 seconds left in the game.

Salcido wanted to shoot nearside to the left post, but was checked from behind. As he fell to the ground, the ball sailed out of his stick and carried out of out of bounds.

Salcido had a career day, scoring four goals, dishing out two assists and tallying six points — all career-highs. He jumped up to second on the team with 14 goals and 21 points. But it wasn’t enough. His two last-second chances fizzled out and the No. 5 Orange (5-2, 1-1 Atlantic Coast) fell to No. 11 Duke (7-4, 1-0), 16-15, at Koskinen Stadium for SU’s second overtime loss in a row.

“He’s just playing great individually,” SU attack Dylan Donahue said. “He’s a great player and he’s going to continue to do that.”

On Salcido’s first goal just five minutes into the game, the game’s first, he jogged into the offensive zone, caught a pass and converted on the outside shot. A Duke defender had lost his stick, leaving Salcido open.

The next one came a little more than a minute later when Salcido took a quick step past Duke’s Garrett Van de Ven and bounced in shot before the defense could slide to help.

Just six minutes into the first quarter, he had already tied his career-high of two goals.

“The ball kind of fell on my stick and I got some good shot opportunities earlier and kind of got off to a good start,” Salcido said.

Salcido was drawing Duke’s short stick midfielders and abusing them with his speed. He either ran past them for an open shot or drew the double team and passed to an open teammate.

He made a swim move past his man near the restraining line in the closing seconds of the third quarter for his final goal of the game.

With 3:29 left, he back peddled to the left of the net, drawing the attention of two defenders, before tossing a pass to Syracuse midfielder Derek DeJoe, who tied the game at 15.

“We couldn’t be happier with what he’s doing,” Orange head coach John Desko said.

A couple years ago, Desko “wasn’t sure” Salcido would play for SU. Salcido was a scout team player who played in 13 and 14 games, respectively, in his first two seasons, scoring zero goals and recording five assists over the two years.

But with 11 seconds left in regulation, right after Salcido’s first miss, Desko called timeout and put the ball in the junior’s stick again.

Salcido cut to the right of the net and lofted a pass toward DeJoe on the other side of the field. His chance at one more assist and one more point in an already career day evaporated, though, as the pass flew over DeJoe’s head just before time expired.

“I figured I just need to pass over the top and maybe someone will make a play,” Salcido said.

“Unfortunately, I threw it a little bit too high.”

The most impressive performance of his time at SU fell just short of carrying the Orange past Duke. jrmettus@syr.edu

tary. Especially after one Syracuse stop was quickly followed with a transition layup, the Cavaliers affirmed its wherewithal to break Syracuse’s last resort that allowed it to barely escape against Gonzaga.

But a 2-on-1 fastbreak was nullified when Anthony Gill stutter-stepped and traveled.

Richardson finished at the other end to cut the lead to nine. The emotional turn of the game came when UVA tried to beat the press over the top, but Richardson intercepted the arching ball before throwing it off an opponent, diving over the scorer’s table and earning SU a possession, much like many down the stretch, that granted it just another breath.

“The inbounds pass was a little too far for him and I knew I could get to it, but I was probably going to end up going out of bounds,” Richardson said. “I knew once I threw it back at him I wanted to get out of the way of it. I think I did fall into a monitor. I just wanted to make sure it didn’t hit me once I threw it off him.”

It seemed buried in the tale of the freshman who scored 21 second-half points. Most of his second-half outburst was jumpstarted by SU’s defense that made plays far less spectacular

than Richardson’s circus act near midcourt.

Sometimes, Syracuse didn’t force turnovers. Others, the Orange didn’t heavily contest a Virginia shot. A formula that, on paper, would be destined for failure on any night against a Cavaliers team that rarely leaves openings unexploited. But not on this night, not when Syracuse refused to fade.

“A few times, even though we didn’t get turnovers, we forced early shots, we did a pretty good job in transition at contesting vertically,” assistant coach Gerry McNamara said. “It just changed the pace of the game.”

That pace, the one that ended Virginia’s season and kept Syracuse’s alive, only slowed when SU inbounded the ball with two seconds left, finally able to walk out the waning seconds of a game it wasn’t supposed to win.

Then the pace vastly changed for one last time, even with no time left on the clock.

This time, it was Syracuse’s bench dictating it as the players charged onto the court, ones that had been slouched until the start of an improbable run that added one more chapter to an improbable season. mcschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman

We are looking for an energetic upbeat person to help with our 11-year-old autistic son. Person must love the outdoors and be a strong swimmer.

Responsibilities shall include guidance and daily living skills, facilitated typing, socialization, and help with tutoring. Seeking a good fit between child and person, good pay and flexible hours. Call 315-834-6476 or 315-704-8146.

CLASSIFIEDS

14 march 28, 2016

3 Bedroom Apartment 939 Ackerman Ave. Sunny second floor flat

Parking, porches, fireplace, laundry, and hardwood floors $500 per person Available August 1, 2016 CoolRent@twcny.rr.com

Available NOW and Spring Semester

PRIVATE FURNISHED STUDIO APTS. RENTS START AT $525 PER MONTH

dailyorange.com

Refinished Floors, Air-Conditioned, Furnished, Secure, Laundry, Parking, Maintenance

Copper Beech Commons Renting for Fall 2016 Private Tenant Shuttle to SU and ESF! All-inclusive living starting at $899.

Available For 2016-2017 UNIVERSITY AREA APTS.

Extensive On-Site Fitness Center

Including Utilities

1011 E. Adams St. 509 University Ave.

Amenities include:

(315) 479-5005 University.area2@Gmail.com

Indoor Basketball Court Movie Theater

1 Room & Parking

Outdoor Grilling Area

737 Euclid Ave.

On-site parking

$425 a month

Weekly shuttle to Wegmans/Target

Contact:

Now Leasing 2,3, & 4 Bedroom units

Jovan Millet at (619) 322-5527 or

for Fall 2015

Tina Millet at (619) 322-6161

info@copperbeechcommons.com

300 University Ave. 315.565.7555

www.housingsu.com

Quality off Campus Housing Find photos, videos, floor plans info at www.csa-syracuse.com 1-8 bedrooms Ackerman, Redfield, Greenwood, Westcott, and more...

(315) 256 5775

csa.syracuse@gmail.com

3 bedroom apartment • hardwoods • tile bath • parking • $850+ For the student with elegant taste 157 Redfield Pl (4 Bedroom) 950 Westcott St. (4 Bedroom) lstennis53@gmail.com (315) 446-7611

Call (315) 373-7108

3 Bedroom apartment furnished parking porches washer / dryer on Ackerman

2 Bedroom Apartment Second Floor Flat, includes parking & yard Barry Park, Westcott St. Available April 1, 2016 Information: (315) 474-3774

Call Rich (315) 374-9508

ay! d o T Tour

Contact Lori 315-422-0709 rentals@universityhill.com www.universityhill.com

march 28, 2016 15

dailyorange.com sports@dailyorange.com

It doesn’t get much better than this!

Across the street from campus 2 bedroom apartments furnished 9 month lease

(315) 422-7138 jgregg1085@yahoo.com

AVAILABLE NOW ELEGANTLY OVERLOOKING PARK: 1108-1207 Madison 1-2-3 bedroom apts-lofts-or house; All luxuriously furnished, heated, hot water, off-street parking. NO pets.

Some pictures on web site: Fine-Interiors-Syracuse.Net Call (315) 469-0780

JOBS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT NYPIRG, the state’s leading environmental advocacy group, is hiring for campaign positions in Syracuse and 8 other locations from Buffalo to Long Island. Work with NY’s largest citizen movement to shape landmark climate change policies. $500-$700/week, benefits. Call (315) 236-2012 or apply online at JobsForActivists.Org

collegehome your home away from home

2016-2017 2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Bedrooms furnished, double beds, carpeted, laundry, off-street parking, close to campus!

John O. Williams

CUSE REAL ESTATE LAST ONE’S LEFT!

GREAT 1,2,3 AND 5 BEDROOM HOUSES AND APARMENTS LEFT! 721 Maryland - 3BR Apartment 708 Lancaster - 2BR Apartment 919 Lancaster - Huge 5 BR House 519 Walnut Ave - 1 BR Apartment

CALL 315-474-6791 EMAIL: CUSERE@GMAIL.COM OR GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CUSEREALESTATE.COM

Quality Campus Area Apartments over 30 years of service Call

John

or

Judy

478-7548 collegehome.com

One Bedroom for Rent Beautiful Strathmore Home very spacious and private 10 minutes to campus.

$550 a month

includes utilities, internet, cable, parking and laundry Lease is month to month, graduate students or professionals preferred Contact Sarah at 315-727-4978

Studios, 1, 2, & 3 bedrooms Close to campus & 24-hour on call maintenance

D.N. Drucker Ltd. Please call (315) 445-1229 OR frontdesk@dndruckerltd.com www.dndruckerltd.com

Serving SU Campus for more than 30 years!

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 Bedrooms Lancaster Ackerman Sumner Furnished, Washer/Dryer, Parking, Leases Start Sept. 1 Call Rich at 315-347-9508

men’s lacrosse

SU’s reliance on Williams proves costly against Duke

By Connor Grossman asst. web editor

DURHAM, N.C. — Ben Williams leaned into the game’s last faceoff in a familiar spot. Game tied. Overtime. His chance to permanently turn the game’s momentum with one clamp of his stick.

His final faceoff last week against Johns Hopkins came on the heels of a game-tying goal by the Blue Jays with 38 seconds left in regulation. Williams had his chance, but the ball never touched an SU stick after he let Hunter Moreland scoop up the faceoff. Game over.

On Saturday SU’s junior faceoff specialist kneeled on the dirt patch at midfield for the 28th time — the four-minute overtime period ready to start at the flinch of his stick after the Orange blew a four-goal, fourthquarter lead. Williams had his chance, but Kyle Rowe streaked away from the X with the game-winning goal in his stick. Game over.

Williams still won 12 faceoffs in his toughest test of the season, but once again couldn’t grab ahold of the game when it stared back at him on the X. “That’s a great question,” head coach John Desko said when asked about Williams’ ability to win a game-changing faceoff. “He gets us the ball early and puts us in that position.

“We’ve got to learn to play when we don’t have the ball.”

That was the paramount issue for a Syracuse team that watched Duke win 19-of-34 faceoffs, by far the most of any opponent the Orange has faced this year.

SU didn’t have the ball when it mattered most, and No. 11 Duke (7-4, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) scored five unanswered goals in the fourth quarter to eventually topple No. 5 Syracuse (5-2, 1-1), 16-15, in overtime on Saturday afternoon in Koskinen Stadium.

Blue Devils midfielder Deemer Class punished the Orange for a career-high seven-goals. Three of those came in a 12-minute, fourth-quarter scoring drought for SU that foreshadowed the game-ending shot placed in by Chad Cohan less than a minute into overtime.

“Very much like last week,” Desko said,

from page 20

vols

and snip hard. Then his players could slip their piece onto the back of their regional championship hats.

“Wait, wait, what if you wear it backwards?” Brittney Sykes asked on Friday.

“You can put it in the front,” Hillsman said. “We’re going to win hats on Sunday.”

The first time Hillsman remembered cutting down nets as a coach on the collegiate level was when he was at Siena College as an assistant under Gina Castelli.

She didn’t give instructions on how to cut down the nets before the Saints won a MidAmerican Conference title. Hillsman said players struggled with the technique.

On Sunday, every Syracuse player did a good job with it, except for Cornelia Fondren, Hillsman said.

“It wasn’t hard at all but I did what he told me to do and I turned my wrist and it worked so don’t get why he said I was the worst,” Fondren said. “It’s once in a lifetime experience. Some people did it in high school, but it’s nothing like doing it in college.”

“we didn’t learn how to close it out.” “(Duke) started to win some faceoffs, especially after goals … We’ve got to learn to play like that.”

The scoreless stretch was the product of nearly a winless fourth quarter at the X. Williams lost four of his five opportunities, and in a last-ditch effort to inject life into the offense, backup Cal Paduda lost his only real chance after a Duke faceoff violation gave SU the ball earlier.

Williams’ sustained success over the last year and a half has allowed Syracuse to flourish offensively, freely taking a high volume of shots knowing he was a sure bet to get the ball back on the faceoff. On Saturday the Orange instead had to rely on groundballs, which it was beat 35-32 on, and turnovers to create offensive possessions.

After picking up a groundball on a clear attempt, Derek DeJoe ended the scoring drought with a low-slung laser that Blue Devils goalie Danny Fowler appeared to stop, then tap in as he turned around to see where the ball was. It knotted the score at 15 in the last three minutes, with a four-goal lead 12 minutes prior a distant memory.

“When you tend to have a lead, some people mentally might feel a little more relaxed,” senior defender Brandon Mullins said. “I guess we just have to do a better job keeping the foot on the gas.”

Williams had his chance to freeze the meltdown, but let the ball, and Rowe, slip out of his reach. All game he was sandwiched between Duke’s physical wings, a repeated beating that didn’t lend itself kindly to his performance at the end of the game.

Syracuse blew it’s chance to win on the final possession of regulation, and despite a fitting end to disastrous fourth quarter, the ledger reset when Williams took a knee for the opening faceoff in overtime.

But the lifeblood of the Orange offense, even with only three goals to his name this season, couldn’t score where he had the chance. At the X. “Ben’s a great player,” SU’s points leader, Dylan Donahue said. “He’s going to have a couple of off days.” cgrossma@syr.edu

Fondren and Brianna Butler said they never previously had the chance to cut down nets in their basketball careers. As Syracuse reached new heights by reaching its first Final Four, so did some players.

“I’m scared,” Taylor Ford said as she climbed the ladder. “I’m afraid of heights.”

Exactly three weeks prior, Hillsman said that his team could win a national championship after losing by 11 points to second-ranked Notre Dame in the ACC championship game. When he explained how much basketball his team had left to play, he detailed six wins in the NCAA tournament. And then he said his team would be cutting down the nets in Indianapolis.

Cutting them down in the regional finals provided just a glimpse of what could happen next week. Hillsman’s lessons paid off as he said everyone except Fondren was successful. But with a national championship just two wins away, she could still have time to improve.

“She struggled a little bit,” Hillsman said. “Give her another lesson. Hopefully she can get another chance at it.” pmschwed@syr.edu | @pschweds

16 march 28, 2016

dailyorange.com sports@dailyorange.com

FINAL FOUR SQUARED

from page 1

virginia 8,13-5) that puts it in the Final Four next week in Houston, where it will pay No. 1 seed North Carolina.

It was a run that included a boastful “They can’t f*cking guard me” from Richardson in front of the Syracuse fan section.

It included a pull-up 3 in the face of Malcolm Brogdon, the best perimeter defender in the ACC. When it was over, Syracuse had a six-point lead. It had a clear path to the Final Four, its first in three years, but the most unlikely of Jim Boeheim’s six trips.

“Coach came in and barked at me a little bit at halftime. I just had to pick it up,” Richardson said. “Once I got going, I was hot. And I was going.”

It took the Orange nearly 14 minutes to get a basket on the first attempt of a possession.

Its offense was almost solely on the offensive putbacks of Tyler Roberson. There were certain sparks, like Tyler Lydon connecting on a 3 with one of his shoes thrown off to the sideline, or an 11-2 run to start the second half. But those moments, the Cavaliers found answers to.

Usually it was in the form of a Perrantes 3-pointer. Syracuse had game-planned for him, but UVA was picking apart the zone and it left him wide open atop the key.

The run, not the spurt that Syracuse had continued to threaten with, didn’t ever seem like it was on the verge of happening. And then it happened with a force.

“It was a great comeback, one of the best I’ve coached in, any team I’ve had,” Boeheim said. “Virginia has beaten us by 15 points three straight times. And they were up by 15 today. They’re a hard team to come back against, and these guys just made some unbelievable plays. They deserved to win.”

Richardson said he started feeling it when he got to the basket and got fouled with 8:23 left. That cut a 13-point lead down to 11. Then

MALACHI RICHARDSON had every reason to be smiling after the game. After scoring just two points in the first half he rattled off 21 in the second to help lead the SU comeback. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

he got to the basket again and got it to nine on the next possession. He pulled up from the left wing and pushed the Orange’s deficit

comeback kid Malachi Richardson scored 21 points in the second half, accounting for 45 percent of the team's total output.

45% from nine to six. He was using the isolation offense to get to the rim, and he did it all alone when he put Syracuse ahead by one — inciting

bedlam from the partisan SU crowd.

His pull-up 3 over Brogdon made it four.

Then his offensive rebound and putback made the lead six. No one could defend him.

When he scored only two points in the first half, it wasn’t out of the ordinary. He’s been bad this year in that way, he gets in his own way. But when it clicked, he was unstoppable.

During the Syracuse shoot-around on Saturday afternoon, Richardson got the chance to meet NBA shooting legend Reggie Miller, who was broadcasting the game for TBS. Assistant coach Mike Hopkins asked Miller if he had any advice for the freshman, who in turn told him that as a shooter, he needed to have a short memory. He couldn’t hold on to the ones he missed. And on Sunday, when things weren’t going well, he thought of that moment.

Trevor Cooney never found his 3-point stroke. Michael Gbinije had just 11 points.

Everyone else combined for just 26. The offense came from Richardson when there

from page 1

tennessee Two weeks ago, Sykes didn’t even know what state Sioux Falls was in. She left it with the biggest accomplishment of her basketball career.

SU will next face No. 7 seed Washington in Indianapolis in the national semifinals when its movie-like season continues on Sunday.

As the final buzzer sounded, teammates swarmed Syracuse point guard Alexis Peterson, who dropped to her knees at midcourt in celebration, who has scored at least 22 points in every NCAA tournament game so far, who has sparked SU all season.

“I looked at my team. They said, ‘You got to suck it up, you got to play tough because we need you,’” Peterson said of hurting her hip. “It’s 40 minutes. If I have to play through, you know, being hurt or being injured, that’s what I was going to do. I didn’t want to let them down.”

And she didn’t. Peterson, the region’s Most Outstanding Player poured in 29 points in 38 minutes and continued the hot streak she’s been on in this entire month.

When the crowd around Peterson drifted back toward the bench, she got up and hugged Sykes, who had tears in her eyes, who recovered from two torn ACLs and who has boosted Syracuse this postseason after missing most of the last two.

“We just knew that any team we came against, we would defeat them,” Sykes said, “because we knew that what we had on our team, we were capable of beating any team in this NCAA tournament.”

Syracuse possessed a double-digit thirdquarter lead against the Volunteers, but UT cut it all the way down to four at the beginning of

BRITTNEY SYKES has avoided a season-ending ACL injury for the first time in three years, and she’s making the most of her time. Her average of 15.8 points in the NCAA tournament is nearly double her regular-season average. courtesy of dave eggens

the fourth quarter. The Lady Vols, despite going .500 in conference play and losing 13 games before Sunday, nearly clawed all the way back.

Three days ago, Peterson said part of what makes this Syracuse run so special is that the Orange is making history. When the juniors and seniors entered the program, SU had never won an NCAA tournament game. In the past three years, Syracuse has won six.

And four of them have come within the past two weeks. The most recent came against a program with 18 Final Four appearances.

“Twenty years from now we’re going to be able to look back,” Peterson said on Thursday, “and say we were the ones who got this program to the highest ranking in school

on the break Syracuse committed 14 fewer turnovers than it forced, which helped it score many points off turnovers.

syracuse 25 tennessee 6 history, highest ranking in conference history, first Sweet 16.”

Now she can another to that list: First-

was no one else willing or able to step up.

“Malachi’s been awesome, man,” Trevor Cooney said. “He took this second half over.

I just told him, keep being aggressive. You’re gonna get those foul calls. The ball’s gonna go in for you.”

The celebration on the court was wild and all over the place. A blur to everyone who was asked about it. Cooney was hounded by reporters on the court, sweat still dripping from his head as he caught his breath.

Dajuan Coleman boasted that his powerful and frustrated slap of his towel on the hardwood when the team went down by 14 was the sign of life, the beginning of a comeback.

The walk-ons took selfies with each other.

Former Syracuse players Rakeem Christmas, Tyler Ennis and C.J. Fair watched the celebration from afar on the other side of the court. Director of athletics Mark Coyle waited patiently for his turn to climb the ladder and cut down part of the net.

There was the coach that has been through it all, with a hoarse voice and a Final Four hat atop his head, and he thanked all the Syracuse fans. He was suspended nine games and no one’s stopped asking him to talk about it since. He got in Richardson’s ear when Syracuse needed him to step up. Most importantly, he kept the Orange from giving up.

When he walked into the locker room, all the hoopla had died down. The walk-ons affectionately started yelling “GOAT” at him, a reference to the “greatest of all time”. He picked up some chicken fingers that were being given out to the team. He looked at his cell phone, walked to the corner of the locker room, sat down, crossed his legs and let out a loud sigh.

His team, against all odds, had found a way. And it still isn’t over.

“I mean, I thought we deserved to be in the Tournament,” the 40-year SU head coach said. “But I certainly didn’t — I wasn’t planning on getting to the Final Four.” sblum@syr.edu

ever Final Four.

After cutting down the nets, senior Maggie Morrison hugged her dad while wearing a commemorative hat.

“I got to keep that on because my hair’s a little messy,” Morrison said.

The season was a little messy, too. Syracuse lost back-to-back blowouts to Notre Dame and Louisville and it was 1-5 against ranked teams through January.

But that’s when things turned around.

The Orange won 15 of its next 16 games. Close losses turned into close wins. Since the start of February: 4-1 against ranked teams. Syracuse stayed the course and never deviated from Hillsman’s formula for winning: Try to hit 10 3s each game (it hit 14 against Tennessee) and force turnovers at a breakneck pace (it forced 21 against Tennessee).

“Let’s just do what we do, and that’s press and shoot threes,” Hillsman said. “If it’s not enough, we’ll go home.”

Throughout the entire tournament so far, it’s been enough and Syracuse still hasn’t gone home.

Outside the locker room, Peterson hugged assistant coach Vonn Read and thanked him for helping the team. “You deserve this, too,” Peterson said. “You did everything.”

Then Peterson turned to her coaches’ children: “We’re going to the Final Four,” she blurted out while dancing with them.

“You dream of doing this,” Sykes said. “I don’t think anybody comes into college saying, ‘Oh I just want to play ball.’ No. You dream, you play basketball to be in these moments. You dream of going to the Final Four.”

Except now, Sykes doesn’t have to fall asleep to see Syracuse there. pmschwed@syr.edu | @pschweds

march 28, 2016 17

dailyorange.com sports@dailyorange.com

POSTGAME PLAYBOOK MEN’S BASKETBALL

MALACHI RICHARDSON wing

HOMETOWN: TRENTON, N.J. YEAR: FRESHMAN

The big difference was he got to the basket. He got to the basket, and that was the thing that got him going and I think got us going.

You know, the two freshmen were big in the second half tonight.

on a line

21

Number of second half points for Malachi Richardson.

He had just two points at halftime.

Malachi Richardson missed both of his 3-point attempts in the first half, but went 3 for 5 from deep in the second half.

HOMETOWN: COLUMBUS, OHIO YEAR: JUNIOR

acc tournament

14.5 18 19 19 24

ncaa tournament

army west point albany south carolina

7 dayton

mtsu

gonzaga

virginia

key number Syracuse’s second-half run that rode the team to victory.

25-4

in circles

Those types of players are special. I think she’s a special kid. She’s competing.

It’s her time to shine. She stepped up and made things happen.

She ran her basketball team.

She kind of put them on her back and said, We’re not going to be defeated.

GUARD

notre dame

9

47%

ALEXIS PETERSON

lousilville

10

@MCW1 “Our men’s and women’s team lit!! If you are hating stay quiet!”

second half 3-pointers

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

nc state

15

@RichCimini “Yes, Virginia, there is a Syracuse. #miracle #OrangeNation”

su head coach

regular season avg.

Syracuse has committed fewer turnovers in each NCAA Tournament game.

tweet it out

60%

Jim Boeheim

hero

turnover for what

turnovers

hero

22 26

tennessee

much in the clutch Syracuse point guard Alexis Peterson has elevated her level of play in the postseason. She has scored at least 18 points in all six games, including 22 or more in every NCAA tournament game, a big improvement over her 14.5 regular season points per game average. She was named the regional Most Outstanding Player.

29

3-point percentage

Syracuse shot 47 percent from 3 on Sunday. In the prior three games, SU shot a combined 27 percent from deep.

by the numbers

world domination

Syracuse dominated Tennessee in a few statistical categories on Sunday. Check them out below.

SYRACUSE

TURNOVERS

7 21 STEALS

13

Holly Warlick

su head coach on Tennessee Head Coach

TENNESSEE

4 BENCH POINTS

24 7 REBOUNDS

34 46

graphic illustration by kiran ramsey presentation director

18 march 28, 2016

dailyorange.com sports@dailyorange.com

women’s basketball

Butler drills tough 3-pointers in 89-67 win over Vols

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Brianna Butler took a couple steps back and cracked a rare smile. The usually stone-faced guard dropped into her position in Syracuse’s press defense but took a second to realize where the Orange was.

SU had a 15-point lead with just over six minutes standing between her team and its first-ever Final Four.

“That’s when she knows she’s hot,” Brittney Sykes said of Butler’s smile.

The senior sharpshooter leads the nation in 3-pointers attempted this season and she took another 15 attempts on Sunday night.

But she also made six of them, the most she has in over six weeks. No. 4 seed Syracuse’s (29-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) 89-67 win over No. 7 seed Tennessee (22-14, 8-8 Southeastern) also marked just the third time all

from page 20

uva

off the net and stuck it under their black hats. A handful of immediate reactions appear below.

Walk-on guard Mike Sutton, laughing: “My piece is too small man, think I could sneak in for one more? Whatever, this is it.

This is really it.”

Starting center Dajuan Coleman: “I still can’t believe it at all. I just can’t believe this, any of it.”

Starting shooting guard Trevor Cooney while tightly hugging assistant coach Gerry

season Butler had made that many 3s. After entering the weekend on a 6-of-39 cold spell from deep, she finished with 18 points for the second game in a row.

Even when Butler has gone through slumps throughout her career, Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman has never wavered in telling her to keep shooting.

“Every time she catches the ball, faces the basket, I think it’s going in,” Hillsman said. “I think so does the opposing coach because they’re screaming to their players to get out there. She’s a remarkable shooter.

She’s the best shooter in college basketball right now.”

Twice in the first two-and-a-half minutes, Butler missed a 3. The first wasn’t even close as it went long and missed the rim.

But two minutes after that, she knocked down her first triple and held three fingers in the air a little bit longer than usual.

“When we get her heated up early, it

opens up the lanes for us, people can put the ball on the floor, shoot off the dribble, it opens up lanes,” Sykes said. “And they want to hug her tight and she has the ability to create her shot off the bounce.”

With about three minutes left in the second quarter, Butler hit 3s on back-toback possessions. The first one gave SU an eight-point lead and Hillsman, who typically holds three fingers up after makes, emphatically whipped his right hand over his head in celebration.

Tennessee pulled within four at the beginning of the fourth quarter. And on Syracuse’s next two possessions, it was Butler who quickly pushed the lead to 10. The Volunteers never got back within single digits.

Again, Hillsman whipped the three fingers over his head.

“We know, at the right time, when we need a shot,” Sykes said, “Butler’s there to give it to us.”

About two minutes after Butler’s back-

to-back 3s is when she gave SU its 74th, 75th and 76th points.

The feeling, just minutes away from the Final Four by then, was unbelievable, Butler said. That’s when Cornelia Fondren looked up at the scoreboard, too. Syracuse had the game all but wrapped up.

“Brianna Butler’s a great shooter,” Fondren said. “I’ve never had someone on my team that could shoot better than she has.”

Butler is the nation’s active leader in career 3-pointers made. She’s the Orange’s all-time leader in that category.

And in part because of her shooting performance on Sunday, she’ll have at least one more chance to add to those numbers before her time at SU comes to an end.

“It’s like you get into a groove and your confidence is just up there,” Sykes said. “You can miss a shot and be like, ‘You know what?

I’m just going to make the next one.’”

McNamara and holding his piece in front of McNamara’s face: “Look what we just did man. Look what, what we just did!”

Director of operations Kip Wellman: “Where’s the trophy? We need to find the trophy, guys.”

Hopkins, still: “Where’s Malachi? Malachi?”

Finally Richardson, the freshman who scored 21 second-half points to both spark and complete the most improbable of comebacks, stepped inside the 3-point arc and walked toward the ladder. As he slowly ascended up, a large cheer rose from the throngs of SU fans who’d stuck around. The noise crescendoed,

and crescendoed, until he raised a small piece of nylon in the air to incite a stadium-rattling roar.

Hopkins was waiting for Richardson when he stepped down.

“That a boy Mali, that a boy,” Hopkins, gripping his player in a bear hug, said close to Richardson’s ear. “That a boy.”

With the net now hanging on by a single thread, one final search broke out. It wasn’t just Hopkins, but every SU player looking for Boeheim. He wasn’t too hard to find, standing near the foul line before waling to the rim.

“Woah, woah be careful coach,” Coleman yelled as Boeheim crept up the ladder.

“Damn, look at Coach!”

At the top, Boeheim snipped the net off the bottom of the rim — finally and forever putting it in the Orange’s grasp. Then he held the net in the air and waived it around while the crowd showered him with inaudible screams. It was his moment, their moment, and then he backpedaled toward the floor.

Early last week, Syracuse flew to Chicago with Gonzaga on their minds and a slim shot at advancing to the Final Four. Five days later, it leaves with bits and pieces of a basketball net and so much more.

sjfortie@syr.edu

jcdoug01@syr.edu

FINAL FOUR

dailyorange.com sports@dailyorange.com

march 28, 2016 19

SQUARED

1

2

3 1. The Syracuse bench celebrates during SU’s upset win over the Cavaliers. On Sunday, the Orange looked flat for the majority of the game until it came out of its slumber in the late second half to prove that it could beat the top-ranked Hoos.

SU will play North Carolina. logan reidsma senior staff photogrpaher

2. TREVOR COONEY (10) cuts through UVA forward Anthony Gill (13) and guard London Perrantes on the way to the rim. Cooney drove to the rim often on Sunday, a departure from his typical deep shooting. During SU’s second half outburst, the senior scored six points. logan reidsma senior staff photogrpaher

3. TYLER LYDON celebrates Syracuse’s win over UVA while sporting Rico, his mustache, prominently. The forward drained a 3-point shot without his shoe on, which still remains only second to his block against Gonzaga as his signature moment of the NCAA Touranment. logan reidsma senior staff photogrpaher

4

4. MICHAEL GBINIJE is interviewed after Syracuse cut down the nets against No. 1-seeded Virginia in the Elite Eight on Sunday. Gbinije didn’t lead the Orange like he normally does, and he played second fiddle to Malachi Richardson, who scored 23 points to lead SU. logan reidsma senior staff photogrpaher

S

SPORTS

dailyorange.com @dailyorange march 28, 2016 • PAG E 20

JIM BOEHEIM cuts down the net for Syracuse after its monumental upset win over No. 1-seeded Virginia. The Orange is 4-0 in its last four matchups with No. 1 seeds. Syracuse could extend that streak to 5-0 when it faces No. 1 seed North Carolina on Saturday at 8:49 p.m. in Houston.

logan reidsma senior staff photographer

FINAL FOUR SQUARED

UP THE LADDER Inside the moment SU cut down the nets after upsetting No. 1 seed Virginia

By Jesse Dougherty senior staff writer

C

HICAGO — Mike Hopkins stood at the foul line — the same spot where Tyler Lydon blocked Gonzaga’s Josh Perkins on Friday, the same spot where Lydon sunk two free throws to seal a win over Virginia on Sunday, the same spot that Malachi Richardson blew by Cavalier after Cavalier on his way to the rim and the Final Four — and barked out commands.

“Walk-ons, did we get all the walk-ons? ... Where’s Malachi? ... Dajuan, Dajuan get on up there!” Hopkins yelled over the crowd noise, the blaring music, the unending chatter by the Syracuse players whose Final Four hats were tilted sideways and worlds were turned upside down.

His goal: Make sure everyone, from the end-of-

the-bench walk-ons to Jim Boeheim himself, got to cut down some of the net.

After 10th-seeded Syracuse (23-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) raced from behind to beat top-seeded Virginia (29-8, 13-5) 68-62 at the United Center on Sunday, chaos flooded the court. More than a hundred people ran on at

up next VS North Carolina at NGR Stadium Friday, 8:49 p.m.

once. Players squeezed into Final Four T-shirts and Final Four hats and held up newspapers with Final Four stripped across the front. The stage was set up; the stage was crowded by the entire SU team. The trophy was presented; the trophy was held up by the entire SU team.

It was a moment worth holding onto and taking something from. Anything, however big or small. And that’s where Hopkins came in.

“Mike and Trevor, can somebody get Mike and Trevor? ... Adrian (Autry) where’s your family, get a picture with your family ... Malachi? I still can’t find Malachi,” Hopkins stood on his tippy toes, craned his neck and then sighed. And then smiled. It wasn’t an easy undertaking, corralling every player and coach amid utter March madness, but things could have been much worse after the Orange fell behind by 16 in the second half.

Around 20 minutes after 7 p.m. central time, the first of the Syracuse walk-ons toed the first rung of the ladder, tightly gripped a pair of scissors and climbed toward the net. Each player then, the line seeming to build toward Richardson and Michael Gbinije, snipped a small piece

see uva page 18

women’s basketball

Orange puts Quentin Hillsman’s net-cutting lessons to use

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Alexis Peterson climbed the Werner ladder underneath one of the baskets in the Denny Sanford Premier Center. With tape on her right wrist unfurling, Peterson wore a championship shirt stating, “Bring Your Game” as a wide grin covered each

Syracuse player’s face.

When the Sioux Falls Regionals’ Most Outstanding Player got up 10 feet in the air, she turned back to her teammates and yelled “Turn that wrist!”

Two days earlier, Orange head coach Quentin Hillsman walked into his team’s locker room after upsetting No. 1 seed South Carolina and began giving instruc-

tions on how to cut down the nets.

SU still needed to win one more game, the regional final on Sunday against No. 7 seed Tennessee, but Hillsman wanted to get his team ready. Turning the wrist while cutting down the net was part of the game plan.

“It’s part of game prep. You got to start two days out,” Hillsman said smiling. “We started prepping

on how to cut the nets on Friday.

We went through it yesterday and this morning.”

No. 4 seed Syracuse (29-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) did beat Tennessee (22-14, 8-8 Southeastern) on Sunday, 89-67, to win the Sioux Falls Region and advance to its first-ever Final Four. The Orange will face No. 7 seed Washington in Indianapolis on Sunday. After

the Elite Eight win, Hillsman’s lessons came in handy as his players finally got the chance to cut down the nets.

He told his team the nets were much thicker than high school nets. It required a precise technique to cut the twine. The instructions were to get on the edge of the scissors, turn the wrist

see vols page 15