Brooklyn - James Southerland is all movement and mania on the basketball court. So when Team FOE decided, at some point during Sunday's epic comeback by Boeheim's Army, to talk smack to Southerland, to try to get inside his head, the banter elevated Southerland's endless reserve of enthusiasm.
"The other guy was talking to him and he was already hyped up on his own," said Boeheim's Army big man DaShonte Riley. "James is a hyped-up guy. When we came to the bench, a couple guys told him to calm down because we were losing. But that's exactly what we needed at that stretch of the game.