Syracuse women’s basketball will make its fifth-straight postseason appearance when it travels to Hartford (19-12) for the first round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament on Friday.

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It's good to see Charles Barkley trolling on the Big East again. He is in the studio for the CBS Pregame show toda and went through his tips for filling out a bracket. He included the requisite pick a 12 or 13 seed. He trolled at Duke a little saying that you should eliminate them before the Regional Finals. Then said Pick no Big East teams for the Final Four. Oh it's going to be fun listening to him for the next few weeks instead of Gotllieb.

I need to fill some space so I'm just going to type a rambling, run on sentence because I have nothing else to say but need to get to one hundred and fifty words to post this Fan Post because SB Nation dictates how long our thoughts must be, yet they are our own thoughts even if someone else is thinking it too and Go Orange!

Someone over at Casual Hoya was posting the "Starting At" prices on Stubhub for tickets to Saturday night's championship game. It's eye opening how much the interest in that game on the secondary market dropped when we were out of the tourney:

StubHub at 7:59pm

2012 Big East Conference Championship Finals Tickets
Sat 03/10/2012 9:00 PM EST
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY Sell

Priced from: $92.00 USD
1,530 tickets left

StubHub at 9:12pm as ESPN was kicking it back to the studio….

2012 Big East Conference Championship Finals (Cincinnati vs TBD) Tickets
Sat 03/10/2012 9:00 p.m. EST

Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
Sell

Priced from: $70.00 USD
1,500 tickets left

As of 10:24pm, with the second game going to the half…
2012 Big East Conference Championship Finals (Cincinnati vs TBD) Tickets
Sat 03/10/2012 9:00 p.m. EST

Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
Sell

Priced from: $37.34 USD
1,435 tickets left

11:36pm, after ND-Louisville

2012 Big East Conference C-USA Championship Finals (Cincinnati vs TBD) Tickets
Sat 03/10/2012 9:00 p.m. EST

Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
Sell

Priced from: $30.00 USD
1,353 tickets left

And just now as I type this FanPost (12:14am)

2012 Big East Conference Championship Finals (Cincinnati vs TBD) Tickets

Sat 03/10/2012 9:00 p.m. EST

Madison Square Garden

New York, NY

Sell

Priced from $29.00 USD

1,310 tickets left

And people are saying the Big East Tourney will be fine when we are gone....

Got this from the UConn Blog:

So how did the Huskies get here? Let's give this a shot:

• Seton Hall's loss moved the Huskies into a tie for 9th with the Pirates. Both finished 8-10 in the conference.
• Since they split their regular season series, the conference tiebreaking procedures meant that their record against the best team in the conference would decide seeding. If their records were equal (or if no team could game a decisive advantage with an unequal amount of games) then we move down the list to the next team.
• Both teams lost to Syracuse.
• Both teams lost to Marquette.
• Georgetown, South Florida and Cincinnati all finished 12-6. Both teams finished 1-2 against those teams.
• Both teams lost to Louisville.
• Both teams beat West Virginia.
• Rutgers and St. John's tied at 6-12. UConn went 1-1 against those teams and Seton Hall went 2-1. Since the Huskies could have matched Seton Hall's record with another game, we don't stop there.
• Finally, we get to Pittsburgh and Villanova, who went 5-13. UConn went 2-0 against those teams and Seton Hall went 1-1. The tie is finally broken.

Simple, right?

No. 12 seed Syracuse (18-13) opened the 2012 BIG EAST women's basketball championship presented by American Eagle Outfitters with a 57-47 win over No. 13 seed Providence (13-17). Junior Kayla Alexander had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead the Orange, while senior teammate Iasia Hemingway added 15.

Providence scored the first point of the game, a free throw, before Syracuse answered with the first field goal of the contest and led 2-1. The Orange never trailed the rest of the game.

Both teams were sluggish from the field. The Orange shot 31.7-percent, including 0-6 from 3-point range. Providence shot 30.6-percent from the field, and was just 1-of-12 from 3-point range.

Junior Symone Roberts led the Friars with 12 points.

With the win, the Orange advance to play No. 5 seed West Virginia on Saturday at Noon. It is the third straight year Syracuse has won its opening game of the BIG EAST tournament.

As the season is winding down, the opportunities to see Syracuse University's teams on ESPN Classic, or other channels is slowing to a trickle. However, next week we do get 2 classic games to watch, if they catch your fancy.

Monday, March 5 at 1 pm UConn vs Syracuse from March 12, 2009

Tuesday March 6 at 1 am Syracuse vs West Virginia from March 13, 2009

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Slim Pickin's over the next 2 weeks. ESPN Classic is mainly showing boxing next week, and a lot of Daytona stuff the week after. Anyway, here is this week's update:

ESPN Classic

Monday, February 13 - 3pm - Louisville vs (3) Syracuse from 2/14/10

SNY BONUS GAMES:

Wednesday, February 15 - 1pm - (6) Syracuse vs (11) Georgetown from 1/31/87

Thursday, February 16 - 1pm - (7) Pittsburgh vs (12) Syracuse from 3/6/88

LOCAL BONUS:

Monday, February 13 - 7:30pm - AND - Wednesday, February 15 - 12pm - ON TIME WARNER CABLE SPORTS - Boston College vs (8) Syracuse from 2/2/91

Wednesday, February 23 - 10am - Providence vs (7) Syracuse from 2/12/91 - ON TIME WARNER CABLE SPORTS

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We've all talked ad nausea about how we think the Big East is going to spite us (and Pitt) next year in regards to the football schedule. But we haven't mentioned the potential basketball schedule. For us, attendance wise, hoops is our money maker. The fans come out in droves. We represent well and when ESPN (or CBS) shows the dome filled with 30K + fans, it's a huge recruiting tool.

My question to you, fellow Nunesers, what's to stop the Big East schedule gods from giving us a less than favorable hoops schedule as well?

Here is one example of how I see us being screwed a bit. First, a note on the Home and Homes. Since West Virginia is out, there would be four H-H match-ups next year instead of three., assuming the Big East sticks with 18 conference games.

Home Away

Providence H-H Providence

South Florida H-H South Florida

DePaul H-H DePaul

Pittsburgh H-H Pittsburgh

St John's Georgetown

Rutgers Villanova

Seton Hall UConn

Cincinnati Notre Dame

Marquette Louisiville

Obviously, this is an extreme schedule, but it is certainly feasible. We would get home and homes with the 3 "Bottom Feeders" (I understand USF is having a great season, but really....) plus fellow defector Pitt. All 3 NYC area schools would come to us, so we wouldn't be able to have an appearance in the NYC area. Road games at GTown, Nova, UConn, ND and Louisville - all games that could garner a 30K + attendance mark. And home games with Cincy and Marquette - Would anyone really get up for those games?

Now again, this is an extreme schedule. But would any of you be shocked if something similar to this is released next summer? I sure has hell wouldn't.

I'm watching the 85 G-Town Cuse game on ESPN Classic and noticed that G-Town mascot and cheerleaders made the road trip. You don't see mascots and cheerleaders making road trips anymore. (PS, Raftery on the call)

Without further ado, here are the upcoming games on TV:

ESPN Classic

Monday, February 6 - 3pm - (14) Georgetown vs (8) Syracuse from 3/7/86 (BE Semifinal)

Tuesday, February 7 - 2am - (14) Syracuse vs Georgetown from 2/7/94

Tuesday, February 7 - 11am - (9) Syracuse vs (2) Georgetown from 2/13/89

Tuesday, February 7 - 3pm - Georgetown vs (21) Syracuse from 2/3/03

Wednesday, February 8 - 12am - (22) Georgetown vs (3) Syracuse from 3/11/10 (BE Quarterfinal)

Wednesday, February 8 - 4am - (13) Georgetown vs (17) Syracuse from 1/10/83

Wednesday, February 8 - 10:30am - (10) Syracuse vs (13) Georgetown from 1/30/95

Wednesday, February 8 - 2:30pm - (15) Syracuse vs Georgetown from 3/1/03

Monday, February 13 - 3pm - Louisville vs (3) Syracuse from 2/14/10

SNY BONUS GAMES:

Wednesday, February 8 - 1pm - AND - Friday, February 10 - 7pm - (17) Syracuse vs Michigan St from 2/23/03

Wednesday, February 15 - (6) Syracuse vs (11) Georgetown from 1/31/87

Thursday, February 16 - (7) Pittsburgh vs (12) Syracuse from 3/6/88

LOCAL BONUS:

Wednesday, February 9 - 12pm - ON TIME WARNER CABLE SPORTS - Seton Hall vs Syracuse from 1/19/91

Monday, February 13 - 7:30pm - AND - Wednesday, February 15 - 12pm - ON TIME WARNER CABLE SPORTS - Boston College vs (8) Syracuse from 2/2/91

Results/Descriptions after the Jump...

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