Nine is the magic #.

UMass #9 scoring team in the country.  'Cuse #9 Defense in the country.......It should be a great game!!!!

UMASS 79 Syracuse 75 OT

You have a good team there in up-state NY (should be a sweet 16 team next year).  I don't expect this game to be the scoring bonanza it was back in November....Boeheim has the team gelling a little better now and playing good defense (I live in a Big East area so I was able to catch some Syracuse games on TV).  Syracuse and UMass had very similar seasons full of ups and downs....I just think UMass is a little better at this point in the season or at least more consistant and on a better run (excluding the Charlotte hiccup, which cost them and NCAA berth), but again this young Syracuse team is very very talented and are playing better as a team as of late......so it will be very very fun to watch and it could easily go either way.  So good luck to the Orange, but as always.......

GO UMASS!!!!

No, ninth nationally.

yeah our ups and downs were in the big east, yours in the lowly a-10.

this will be a 10-15 point win for the cuse. u beat us at the beginning of the year when we had a bunch of guys including several freshmen who had been playing with eachother for about three weeks.