Fab Melo out of the tournament!

[brewcity77]

Syracuse Center Fab Melo will not be traveling with the team or participating in the 2012 NCAA tournament:

http://www.suathletics.com/news/2012/3/13/MBB_0313122020.aspx

[marquette09]

Ouch

[Bieberhole69]

That's awesome

[Hoopaloop]

Syracuse Center Fab Melo will not be traveling with the team or participating in the 2012 NCAA tournament:

http://www.suathletics.com/news/2012/3/13/MBB_0313122020.aspx

Well that changes things a wee bit.  Can I edit my brackets?  Wisconsin is in that bracket, right?  They might have just been given their golden ticket again.

[MUMac]

Hope nobody filled their brackets out in ink.  WOW, stunning development.

[brewcity77]

Well that changes things a wee bit.  Can I edit my brackets?  Wisconsin is in that bracket, right?  They might have just been given their golden ticket again.

I've got Vandy beating Syracuse in the Sweet 16...but this makes me wonder if they'll even make the Sweet 16. After all, Ken Pomeroy did just write today that this would be the year a 16 beats a 1...

[drbeauch]

Makes you wonder if they knew about this before bids came out and held back the info so they could get #1 seed - not sure they would have got it if committee knew Melo wasn't playing.

[GGGG]

Well that changes things a wee bit.  Can I edit my brackets?  Wisconsin is in that bracket, right?  They might have just been given their golden ticket again.

Wisconsin isn't going to beat Syracuse no matter if Melo is on the team or not.  But I think UW loses to Vandy anyway.

[marquette09]

Syracuse Center Fab Melo will not be traveling with the team or participating in the 2012 NCAA tournament:

http://www.suathletics.com/news/2012/3/13/MBB_0313122020.aspx

I hear those Bowling classes at Syracuse are pretty hard

[TallTitan34]

ACC Pride!

[avid1010]

Wisconsin isn't going to beat Syracuse no matter if Melo is on the team or not.  But I think UW loses to Vandy anyway.

i have WI losing to Montana, but i was counting on them having no shot at getting past Cuse....don't like this.

[Stronghold]

Syracuse is still really good.

[Blue Horseshoe]

I think the East bracket is the biggest up for grabs. I'm not confident in Syracuse (even if they had Melo), I don't like Ohio state. Now I really wish MU had the 3 seed here.

[ErickJD08]

Syracuse is still really good.

That is what I was thinking.  I hope that kills the spread so I can bet on them.

[Bieberhole69]

I think they should vacate their regular season championship and give it to the team that came in 2nd

[Marquette_g]

So how many strikes does Syracuse get before the national media finally realizes they are about as dirty as it gets:

1. Bernie Fine
2. Drug Bust Cover-ups
3. Fab Melo eligibility

Probably will never be called out on a national level given that Boeheim is the resident svengali of ESPN.

[brewcity77]

Syracuse is still really good.

Still good, but without Melo, I see them having a lot of trouble with a guy like Festus Ezeli. If they run into Vandy in the S16, that'll be a very tough match-up.

And @ Bieberhole...I love it!

[Silkk the Shaka]

Love the BEast defector schadenfreude.


*Pitt has their worst team in over a decade.

*Syracuse is mired in scandal after scandal then takes a big blow to their national title hopes.

*WVU limps into the tourney and their best player loses out on POY after our very own Jae Crowder comes from four lengths back to catch him in a photo finish.


To hell with all of them!

[Blue Horseshoe]

So how many strikes does Syracuse get before the national media finally realizes they are about as dirty as it gets:
1. Bernie Fine
2. Drug Bust Cover-ups
3. Fab Melo eligibility
Probably will never be called out on a national level given that Boeheim is the resident svengali of ESPN.

The Bernie Fine story still has a ton of vague information and he has not been charged for anything. As for Boeheim, he's a dick, but I've never heard him preach about molding young men or boasting of making the team take philosophy courses to study the classics.

[LON]

The Bernie Fine story still has a ton of vague information and he has not been charged for anything. As for Boeheim, he's a dick, but I've never heard him preach about molding young men or boasting of making the team take philosophy courses to study the classics.

Well, I'm pretty sure Fabricio couldn't master this game:

[dw3dw3dw3]

I think they should vacate their regular season championship and give it to the team that came in 2nd

This... Banner time.

[96warrior]

What about his being named BE defensive player of the year? Frankly, kind of surprised he got that anyway given the games he missed due to the academics issue during the regular season.

[Stronghold]

What about his being named BE defensive player of the year? Frankly, kind of surprised he got that anyway given the games he missed due to the academics issue during the regular season.

They will definitely miss him alot more of the defensive end than the offensive end.

[GGGG]

What about his being named BE defensive player of the year? Frankly, kind of surprised he got that anyway given the games he missed due to the academics issue during the regular season.

My guess would be that he was given some sort of "zero tolerance" and allowed to work his way back to academic eligibility....and then he skipped a class...or missed some sort of mid-term target....

Guy's a dumbass.

[foreverwarriors]

My guess would be that he was given some sort of "zero tolerance" and allowed to work his way back to academic eligibility....and then he skipped a class...or missed some sort of mid-term target....

Guy's a dumbass.

Per Dana O'Neil: This is an academic issue related to the first suspension," a source told ESPN.com's Dana O'Neil. "He was initially cleared after the first suspension but the NCAA has since revisited the case and deemed him ineligible again."

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/2012/story/_/id/7681715/2012-ncaa-tournament-syracuse-orange-announce-fab-melo-ineligible-tourney