Syracuse Downs Georgetown In Overtime, 64-61; Kansas Hammers Baylor

The Jayhawks improve to 19-5 on the season and 9-2 in the Big 12 and will host the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday afternoon. Baylor was handed just their third loss of the season, all within the Big 12, and travel to the Tigers on Saturday.

The Hoyas out-rebounded the Orange 26-13, scoring 16 points off offensive boards. They also slowed down the game to a crawl, deflating the Syracuse transition game and forcing the Orange to take bad shots. And of all things, it’s the Georgetown zone defense stifling Syracuse.

It’s the first time Syracuse has trailed at halftime at home this season.

From start to finish, the college basketball season is actually longer than the college football season. It stretches from early- to mid-November all the way through the very beginning of April and typically outpaces football by about a week or two. It is odd typing out that sentence, however, because for a lot of general fans (and some semi-hardcore ones), basketball season doesn’t really get rolling until February. Sure, it exists and we generally know who’s good and who isn’t, but until Bracketology becomes a thing again, until the BCS Championship and Super Bowl are in the rear view, and until the rivalry games pick up, a good percentage of the sports world doesn’t seem to fully immerse itself.

While that is rather unfortunate, one thing is now certain: it’s immersion time. We’ve got three ranked-versus-ranked games Wednesday night on the ESPN Family Of Networks™, and we’ve got questions abound.