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Syracuse’s defensive effort in this NCAA Tournament has been suffocating

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Coming into the 2018 NCAA Tournament, our biggest concern about this Syracuse Orange team was probably around the short bench.

Syracuse has been playing with just five healthy players for months. Matthew Moyer and Bourama Sidibe are available in spots. The offense is just three players deep most nights. The thought coming in was that this group, as good as they can be at times, couldn’t keep the energy up for three games in five days to get to the Sweet 16.

And yet...

Syracuse is now 3-0 in this tournament, and the only team to win a game while scoring 60 or fewer.