FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2009 - SECTION SLOW START ThePost Standard iger Woods made Tthree birdies en C route to a1-under 71 Thursday,good for 40th place after the first round of the CA SPORTS Championship. Four players were tied for Crunch’s newgoaliesettling in after twogames C 7 the lead at 7-under 65. STORY, PAGE C-12 J-D,CBA boys hoops prepare for state regionals C 10

SU to check if Greene’s SYRACUSE 127,CONNECTICUT 117 uncle broke NCAA rule is in- vestigating whether aprofes- sional sports agent’s recruit- ment of former Orange standout Donte Greene violat- ed NCAA rules. Syracuse spokeswoman Sue Edson says the university started the investigation Tues- day after Yahoo sports report- ed that Ceruzzi Sports and En- SIX OVERTIMES tertainment of Manhattan Orange helped Greene’s uncle, Derrick Marcano, secure a$50,000 line of credit during the survives 2007-08 season. That might be aviolation. Greene did not sign with in epic Ceruzzi Sports. He is repre- sented by agent Bill Strickland By Mike Waters of Louisville, Ky. Staff writer After SU’s win on Wednes- —Syracuse day, coach Jim Boeheim told and Connecticut, the Big Yahoo! columnist Dan Wetzel East’s two standard-bearers that Greene had little to do for the past 20 years, staged a with Marcano. game for the ages on Thurs- ‘‘I don’t think Donte knew day night here at Madison anything about it from what I Square Garden. know. Trying to keep track of In fact, regulation wasn’t it, trying to make sure we enough for these two rivals check with him all the time. as they played into overtime He said, ‘I don’t listen to him, and past midnight in aclassic Idon’t know anything.’ And battle. In fact, one overtime when he went to pick agents wasn’t enough either. Nei- he didn’t go with anybody ther was two. Neither was they are talking about now.’’ three. Neither was four. Nei- ther was five! Syracuse and UConn And we quote played the first triple-over- time game in Big East Tour- That’swhat nament history since Syra- cuse beat Villanova in the he (Manny 1981 tournament’s champi- Ramirez) was. onship game. Then the Huskies and Orange, includ- Cancer.Hehad to ing Syracuse junior Andy go. It sucked, but Rautins whose father, Leo, that was the only won that 1981 game with a last-second tip-in, doubled scenario that was the feat. going to work. It took six overtimes, 30 extra minutes of incredible —Bostoncloser action, before Syracuse final- Jonathan Papelbon to Esquire ly outlasted UConn for a magazine on former RedSox 127-117 victory. teammateMannyRamirez. Syracuse played from be- hind in every single overtime SCORES except the last one. COLLEGE When Andy Rautins hit a Big East Tournament 3-pointer to give Syracuse a 5-Louisville 73 ...... Providence 55 113-110 lead just 10 seconds 10-Villanova 76.21-Marquette 75 into the sixth overtime, it West Virginia 74 ..2-Pittsburgh 60 was Syracuse’s first lead ACC Tournament Virginia Tech 65...... Miami 47 since the final minute of Georgia Tech 86 ...17-Clemson 81 ORANGE, PAGE C-4 Maryland 74...... N.C. State 60 Bos. Coll. 76 ...... Virginia 63 Big Ten Tournament Today’sgame Minnesota 66.... Northwestern 53 Michigan 73 ...... Iowa 45 Syracuse vs. West Virginia Penn St. 66 ...... Indiana 51 When: 9:30 p.m. Big 12 Tournament Where: Madison Square DennisNett/The Post-Standard Oklahoma St. 71 ..6-Oklahoma 70 Garden SYRACUSE GUARD Jonny Flynn gets some comfort from Eric Devendorf as atimeout is called in the fourth overtime Texas 61 ...... Kansas St. 58 TV: ESPN in the Orange’s Big East Tournament game against UConn. Paul Harris is in the background. Baylor 71 ...... 11-Kansas 64 14-Missouri 81 ...... Texas Tech 60 Pac 10 Tournament 23-Arizona St. 68 ...... Arizona 56 13-Washington 85 .....Stanford 73 »MORE ON Checkout thevideos, photos andnewsfromthe BigEastTournament. Go to: www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball USC 79...... California 75 15-UCLA 64 .....Washington St. 53 SEC Tournament Kentucky 71 ...... Mississippi 58 Mississippi St. 79 ...... Georgia 60 Alabama 82...... Vanderbilt 75 Florida 73...... Arkansas 58 OCC Other top 25 games Orange facesproblems at X 4-Memphis 51 ...... Tulane 41 19-Xavier 66...... St. Louis 47 headsto 25-BYU 80 ...... Air Force 69 Syracuse is struggling to ness on the defending na- NBA tional champions. Ayear L.A. Lakers 102.....San Antonio 95 replace faceoff specialist ago, with senior Danny finalfour Cleveland 119 ...... Phoenix 111 Danny Brennan. Brennan leading the nation NHL in winning draws (66.7 per- Six Lazers score in double Buffalo 3...... Florida 1 cent), the position was rock Boston 5...... 3 By Dave Rahme figures to rout Rock Valley Calgary 6...... Detroit 5(SO) Staff writer solid. Four games into the New Jersey 5...... Phoenix 2 2009 season the Orange is in NJCAA national tourney. Washington 2...... 1 osh Knight admitted it. struggling at 46 percent. Columbus 4...... Pittsburgh 3(SO) After enduring arough Facing aGeorgetown team News service report N.Y. Islanders 3... 2(OT) Tampa Bay 4...... Toronto 1 Jfirst start as the faceoff last week that was hurting at Megan Maycumber scored N.Y. Rangers 4...... Nashville 2 specialist on the Syracuse the Xeven more than it was 20 points to help fourth-seeded St. Louis 3...... San Jose 1 University men’s (36 percent), the Orange Onondaga Community College Dallas 3...... Carolina 2 team last week, the sopho- went only 5-for-17 (.294). Colorado 2...... Minnesota 1(SO) beat fifth-seed Rock Valley Atlanta 4...... Edmonton 3(OT) more went on the Internet ‘‘People are expecting us 90-70 Thursday in the first Check www.syracuse.com/ message forums for apost- to go out there and do what round of the NJCAA national sports for the latest scores. game review. Danny did last year,’’ said championship in Rochester, Knight apparently has a Knight, who was Brennan’s Minn. thick skin. apprentice last season in Maycumber (Jamesville) Index ‘‘Reading the forums on- practice, ‘‘and we’ve got to also grabbed 11 rebounds and line and stuff like that,’’ he perform. I’m not knocking four assists. Nicole Dwyer said, ‘‘everybody’s knock- anybody, but none of us is Auto racing ...... C-2 (Cicero) scored 17 points and ing us, but Ilike to prove as good as Danny, as we can College basketball ...... C-6 Molly Byrne (Syracuse) people wrong. When they all see. It’s awork in pro- chipped in 15 points and four College lacrosse ...... C-8 don’t believe in you, you Dick Blume /The Post-Standard gress, and it’s experience, Golf ...... C-12 JAKE MOULTON of Syracuse faces off during agame assists. Caryn Crary (Skaneat- like to go out and show peo- basically. We’ve got a eles) had 12 points and nine re- High schools ...... C-10 against Army at the . Moulton is out for ple what you actually can young group of guys. bounds. Horse racing ...... C-11 the season after injuring his left hand. Sooner or later throughout do.’’ Six players in all scored in NBA ...... C-3 Knight and his fellow the season we’ll get better.’’ Head coach John Desko double figures for OCC. NHL ...... C-7 specialists will have plenty chance will occur at 2p.m. (3-1), visits the Carrier Simone Coburn led Rock Outdoors ...... C-9 of opportunities now that and assistant Kevin Dona- Saturday when the team the Dome. hue held auditions for Bren- Valley with 21 points and 13 Scoreboard ...... C-11 senior Jake Moulton has suf- rebounds. fered aseason-ending injury No. 2Orange (3-1) loves to So far, the faceoff Xhas nan’s job throughout fall ...... C-7 The Lazers will play top- to his left hand. Their next hate, No. 6Johns Hopkins been the only glaring weak- ORANGE, PAGE C-8 seeded Rochester Community Charlie Miller, sports editor and Technical College 8p.m. 470-6053 tonight.