The Daily Orange

The selection committee rewarded Syracuse with a three seed in the South region, its highest seed since 2003, when SU won its only national championship also as a three seed. It will face 14th-seeded Stephen F. Austin Friday in Miami. The time is to be announced.

NEW YORK - Jim Boeheim finally threw in the towel. The walk-ons were coming into the game with 1:19 remaining and Syracuse trailing by 11 in the championship game of the Big East tournament to top-seeded Louisville. Jonny Flynn, who played 181 of a possible 195 minutes in four days, was one of the players taken out.

NEW YORK - Minutes after his Syracuse team lost to Louisville, 76-66, in the Big East tournament final, Jim Boeheim started prophesying. "There's going to be two things people remember about this Syracuse basketball season, two and only two," Boeheim said.

NEW YORK - Another game, another overtime and another Syracuse win - this one sending the No. 18 Orange to the Big East tournament final Saturday night against No. 5 Louisville.

It is a tactic used so often in sports it has become a cliche: Feel like nobody else believes in your team and use it as motivation to prove everyone wrong. So perhaps it's not too much of a surprise Syracuse has suddenly adopted it as its own.

NEW YORK - No more than 45 minutes after Syracuse won what will undoubtedly be considered one of the greatest games in Big East history, a reporter approached Andy Rautins and asked a simple question: Was it the greatest you've ever seen? Suddenly, Eric Devendorf cut across the locker room, shouting an answer before Rautins had time to respond.

NEW YORK - The Orange had yet to lead in any of the 25 minutes of overtime and hadn't won any of the game's six jump balls. Eleven seconds into the sixth overtime, it had done both, after forward Paul Harris won the tip and shooting guard Andy Rautins curled around a screen and hit a long 3.

NEW YORK - The players flooded off the Syracuse bench, racing toward the center of Madison Square Garden. Eric Devendorf jumped up onto the table and put his arms in the air, shouting. Devendorf, the SU shooting guard, had just sunk a desperation 3-pointer at the end of regulation that seemed to leave his hand just as the horn sounded.

NEW YORK - Eric Devendorf has played two games in one day before. Just not in a long time. Anyway, that was in high school, not at the Big East tournament. "AAU, you play two games a day," Devendorf said. "It's nothing like this. This is the top level of college basketball, at the top arena in the world.

NEW YORK - Devendorf scored 16 points after a series of double technical fouls, and keyed a 21-8 Syracuse run that sent the No. 18 Orange (24-8) to an 89-74 over Seton Hall (16-15) in the second round of the Big East tournament here at Madison Square Garden in front of 19,375. He got it with 16 minutes left in the second half, when he jumped into a tussle of players following a hard foul on Syracuse forward Kristof Ongenaet.

As a result of Syracuse's 83-79 win over the Golden Eagles, the No. 18 Orange secured the sixth seed in the Big East Tournament meaning Flynn will have to wait until Wednesday to bring that swagger back to Madison Square Garden. Syracuse will play Seton Hall, who beat South Florida Tuesday night in the first round, at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

MILWAUKEE - Syracuse finishes its regular season on a four-game winning streak and secured the No. 6 seed in the Big East tournament. SU will play the winner of the Seton Hall-South Florida game Wednesday at 9 p.m. at Madison Square Garden in New York. the Orange has beaten both potential opponents earlier this season.

WASHINGTON-- Head coach John Desko gave midfielder Jovan Miller something to think over before going to bed last night. After watching Georgetown's sharp-shooting midfielders terrorize offenses this season, the coach knew he would need Miller's athleticism on the field to force the Hoyas away from the goal.

WASHINGTON - Josh Knight had never competed against a faceoff player like Georgetown's Dan Vinson. Knight, the Syracuse midfielder, couldn't matchup against the Hoyas' Vinson; a smaller, quicker player who dominated Syracuse at the X. "The faceoffs definitely affected our game, Knight, a sophomore said.

Sky Lindsay drove inside, stopped right above the free throw line, and drained a mid-range shot over Syracuse guard Tasha Harris with 1.9 seconds left, propelling the Red Storm to a 63-61 victory over the Orange, ending the team's brief postseason stint.

Fourteen Big East head coaches may have taken a sigh of relief when Marquette senior point guard Dominic James went down for the season with a broken bone in his left foot on Feb. 25 in a loss to Connecticut. But Jim Boeheim didn't. The Syracuse head coach knows that when his team travels to face Marquette Saturday (2 p.

Now, a year later, the tables have turned on Syracuse. Instead of being the hunted, the Orange has reverted back to the hunters, aspiring to upset its higher-ranked opponents and make an unexpected run through the tournament as a No. 12 seed.

Scott Kahoe will return to play the No. 11 Hoyas for the first time at DaSilva Memorial Field in Washington, D.C. at noon Saturday. After heading back from Washington, the No. 2 Orange (2-1) will return to the Carrier Dome to host No. 9 Johns Hopkins on March 14.

With the memories of its first loss five days prior still fresh in their heads, the Syracuse women's lacrosse team started Wednesday afternoon chasing No. 10 Boston. It crumbled in the first 40 minutes, but eventually regrouped to play as would be expected. Working off a single play, Syracuse found a way to blow past the Eagles 17-8 Wednesday in the Carrier Dome before an audience of 183.

After jumping out to what has been its most successful start since the 2005 season, Syracuse head softball coach Leigh Ross is ready to see how her team stacks up against some of the top competition in the country. While Ross shied away from focusing solely on Saturday's game against No.3 UCLA (19-2), she said she expects her team to play its best slate of games to date.

The past four matches haven't been the easiest for the Syracuse tennis team. After starting the season 7-0, the Orange has lost three of its last four contests and is looking to regain the form it showed amid its undefeated streak And, it might be traveling to the perfect place to do it: Florida.

For Syracuse hurdler Ramon Sosa, an extra year could mean an extra ECAC/IC4A title - and possibly more. Sosa redshirted his winter season last year and thus was eligible for an extra indoor campaign. Sosa, a Queens native has impressed during his final weeks on the Syracuse roster, capped off by winning first place in the 60-meter hurdles two weeks ago at the Big East Championships.

Despite its record of 9-15-3, Syracuse heads into today's match envisioning a victory. Thanks to its recent six-game winning streak, the fifth longest in Division I, the Orange enters the College Hockey America conference tournament with confidence.

Brigham Young University-Hawaii(23-1) have now won a school-record 20 straight games. On top of its No. 1 ranking in the Division II West Region, BYU-Hawaii is also No. 3 in the national poll, behind the only two remaining undefeated teams in Division II - Findlay (Ohio) and Long Island University, C.W. Post.