Syracuse 71, Providence 64

Syracuse needed this win today and prevailed despite a short bench. Syracuse is now 14-7 and 4-4 in the Big East. The way I see things, Syracuse needs to go 8-2 over its final 10 games to make the NCAA Tournament. If i was to evalute our resume right now I would classify it as:

Good wins-@Virginia
Wins that don't do much-St. Joseph's, Washington, Providence
Losses that might hurt-Ohio State, UMass, URI
Losses that hurt-Cincinnati, Villanova

I know that Cincy has heated it up and Nova was ranked when they beat the Orange, but Cincy did lost to Bowling Green and Belmont and doens't win outside of Cincy. Villanova, on the other hand, can't win in the Big East. Losing to Rutgers, come on.

Syracuse's remaining schedule is as follows(in no order):
@DePaul
@Nova
UConn
Gtown
@ND
@SH
@Louisville
Marquette
Pitt
@USF

I believe we have to go 8-2 because in doing so, the team will pick up several wins that will help toward building a resume. That would also put Syracuse at 22-9 which is impressive. Also, with the emergence of team's like URI, Drake, St. Mary's, teams that have made the tournament conistently might be watching from home.

On a side note, the NHL All-Star game tonight was great.