Two plays stand above all others in Syracuse Orange men’s basketball history. There’s the good: Hakim Warrick’s block against Kansas’s Michael Lee to preserve the 2003 national title for the Orangemen. And on the bad side... Keith (effing) Smart.
Obviously we’d prefer everyone remembers “The Block” more than the latter moment. Yet, to our chagrin, annual lists of top March Madness moments seem to blow by the incredible athletic play completely — though they’re happy to list Smart’s last-second shot among the most important plays in the history of the sport.
Such was the case once again when the Sporting News compiled the top 40 moments in the history of the event.