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Local sports columnist Bud Poliquin shared his “20 Reasons Syracuse Will Make The Sweet 16”<\/a> in yesterday’s Post-Standard<\/em>. I’d already picked the Orange to win their first couple of games in this year’s tournament: no surprise, then, that I was nodding along with Poliquin’s twenty reasons.<\/p>\n

I paused on No. 7, however:<\/p>\n

7.It’s been 1,825 days since SU has won an NCAA Tournament game, which was on March 20, 2004. Or before anybody heard of Hannah Montana, before Alex Rodriguez played a single regular-season contest for the New York Yankees, before that airplane on “Lost” crashed in the South Pacific. That’s a long time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A long time, indeed. In fact, it’s exactly five years ago, and it’s just about the time (within a couple of weeks, anyway) I committed to SU for a doctoral program of study, just about the time I said “Yes” to Syracuse. A long, long time. Long. Time.<\/p>\n

Of course, the latest developments on Lost <\/em>throw a wrench into this; that Jack et al. are now <\/em>on the island in 1977 tinkers with time-space decorum ever so slightly, but, alas, it does not change the fact that the Orange have gone 0-for-the-NCAAs since I moved to town.<\/p>\n

That will change later today, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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