The No. 18 Syracuse Orange (25-8) got another shot against the big, bad Huskies of, the now, No. 4 UConn team (27-4) at 9 p.m. in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Big East Men’s Basketball Championship on Thursday, March 12 at Madison Square Garden.
The 127-117, 6-OT win against Connecticut gives Syracuse a shot of confidence for the NCAA Tournament next week.
Syracuse leads the all-time series against Connecticut, 49-35 and the Orange are 7-5 against the Huskies in Big East Tournament play.
The Orange advanced to the quarterfinal round with an 89-74 victory against Seton Hall on Wednesday.
The Huskies played in their first game of the tournament. As one of the top four seeds, Connecticut earned byes in the first two rounds.
The game was the latest clash between two of college basketball’s most successful coaches—Jim Boeheim and Jim Calhoun.
Boeheim is third on the Division I active coaching wins list with 795 career victories in his 32-years as head coach for the Orange. Calhoun is second. Both men were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005.
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