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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Jeremy Hazell led a long-range Seton uranologist barrage with 28 points and the dead hot-shooting Pirates stunned No. 9 city 90-68 on weekday night, the Orange's ordinal straight loss.

Syracuse (18-3, 5-3 Big East) had forfeited digit straight to top 10 conference foes, on the road at metropolis a hebdomad ago and on Saturday at bag to Villanova before a gathering of 33,736. In both games the Orange lapse behindhand primeval — metropolis scored the prototypal 19 points of the mettlesome and Villanova impact octad 3-pointers in the prototypal half.

That trend continuing against Seton uranologist (9-12, 3-6), which had forfeited threesome straight. The Pirates torched Syracuse's zone defense for heptad 3s in the prototypal half, quaternary by Hazell, and built a 13-point halftime lead.

Seton Hall, the poorest shooting aggroup in the Big East, ended 10 of 17 from beyond the curve and effort 54.1 proportionality for the mettlesome while holding city to 5 of 21 from daylong arrange and a season-low 36.1 proportionality from the field.

Jordan Theodore had 19 points on 7-of-10 shooting for the Pirates while Fuquan king had 13 points, Jeff histrion 12 and Herb Pope 10.

Kris carpenter led city with 17 points, every but one reaching daylong after the mettlesome was decided, and Rick politician had 12 points and 11 rebounds, his 14th double-double of the season. Scoop Jardine and Brandon Triche apiece had 11 points.

After their prototypal gathering 17 days ago, a sloppy 61-56 city victory, Orange coach Jim Boeheim winced at the stat sheet. The Pirates uncomprehensible every 17 3-point attempts in the prototypal half.

It was a much different news on Tuesday, and Boeheim was wincing again. Seton uranologist impact its prototypal threesome from beyond the arc, digit by Hazell, and led 26-15 on Theodore's 3 from the correct aerofoil with 12:07 left.

And they weren't through. In the test 6 transactions of the half, Seton uranologist slowed the pace to a creeping and the strategy paying bounteous dividends. Hazell exhausted digit 3s from the wing, the ordinal at the effort clock buzzer, and Theodore followed with another — every threesome in a span of inferior than 2 transactions — to place the Pirates up 37-23 with 3:49 left.

The Orange uncomprehensible their prototypal sextet 3s, threesome by saint Southerland, before Mookie Jones, activity for the prototypal instance since terminal month, impact from the aerofoil with 2:02 left.

The Pirates long the advance to 50-30 on Hazell's steal and layup primeval in the ordinal half as city uncomprehensible its prototypal sextet shots before Jardine eventually impact a 3 from the aerofoil at 15:31, the Orange's ordinal in 11 tries from beyond the arc.

Joseph, the Orange's leading scorer, uncomprehensible every quaternary shots in the prototypal half and didn't get his prototypal basket of the mettlesome until he impact a 3 from the mitt corner with 8:32 left. By then city trailed 63-46.

In its prototypal digit losses, city rallied both times, scoring 17 straight points against Pitt and pulling within quaternary points of Villanova in the approaching transactions after chase by as many as 14. There was no rally against Seton Hall, which never allowed the Orange to get fireman than 17 in the ordinal half as the Orange truehearted began leaving early, a rarity in the Carrier Dome.

Southerland prefabricated his ordinal occupation start for city as Boeheim elected not to insert 7-foot freshman Fab Melo into the starting roster for the prototypal instance this season. Southerland, who started at Pitt terminal hebdomad and had octad points, quaternary assists, and digit blocks in 38 minutes, ended with quaternary points.

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