Dan Tortora

Gerry McNamara will become the next head coach of the Syracuse Orange Men’s Basketball program, according to my sources. He returns to the Orange after spending two seasons as the head coach of the Siena Saints Men's Basketball program inside the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC). The year prior to him taking over at Siena, the Saints were 4-28. In his first season with the Saints, the team improved to 14-18 and this past season, they rose to 23-12, including winning the MAAC...

This is the right move… Gerry McNamara was a part of the ONLY team to win an NCAA Tournament Title in Syracuse Men’s Basketball history (2003). He then guided the Orange to back-to-back Big East Championships (2005 & 2006). So Gerry knows the “Syracuse Standard”. To then learn under Hall-of-Famer Jim Boeheim as an assistant & help guide student-athletes to NCAA Tournament berths as a member of the coaching staff showed his translation from player to coach. Then he took over his own program as...

On the night of Saturday, March 14th, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) saw their championship game coming down to the top two seeds of their tournament, a fitting finish. The top-seeded Duke Blue Devils (31-2 overall, 17-1 ACC) versus the 2nd-seeded Virginia Cavaliers (29-4 overall, 15-3 ACC) meeting inside the Spectrum Center to decide who will be putting new hardware in their showcase. Duke began the game on a 4-0 run, within an offensive rebound and putback by freshman guard/forward...