See, if I just don't reference a single player, I do not run into that Brendon Carney thing, the need to reference every game in overly wrought detail. But this, after a win over #15 Marquette (aka "The Catholic, Jesuit University in Milwaukee") is noteworthy. And a valuable lesson for us all - listen to your coach:

Paul Harris knows Syracuse should have beaten Rutgers by more than 10 points Wednesday night. But the freshman guard also knows he and the rest of the Orange learned a lesson on how to finish off an opponent from head coach Jim Boeheim. "People, like myself, didn't listen to coach Boeheim," Harris said. "Sometimes if you listen to the coach, maybe you can pull away. I didn't listen to him and a couple other guys, I'm not going to list names, didn't. If we just hold the ball, they would have fouled us. But we wanted to shoot." Luckily enough for the Orange, it built up a big enough cushion in the second half and made its free throws down the stretch to emerge with a 68-58 victory over Rutgers in front of 7,106 at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

I stopped playing team sports when I got tired of calling some guy coach. I suppose it would be different if it was Boehiem. Probably not. I was a disgruntled guy back then. My interior voice saying things like "Wind Sprints!?! Why? Why???" Tough to be a teen athlete when punk is making the scene.

I also have to admit Rutgers is my second favorite Big East team - they are effectively New Jersey State. And "Go State!" is always the right thing for a soft leftist to say. But Orange is our team here in Easlakia.