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Duke Basketball: ESPN pulls GameDay from Syracuse after accident

The mood switched from utter jubilation to complete saddens in matter of hours after the Orange’s dismantling of No. 18 Louisville.

Syracuse Head Coach Jim Boeheim was involved in a fatal accident on his way home from the game.

Boeheim was driving on I-690 in Syracuse where he was trying to avoid a previous accident and while going around the cars, Boeheim struck a pedestrian, Jorge Jimenez, police say.

Jimenez was rushed to a local hospital, but was pronounced dead soon after.

Syracuse authorities are saying that Boeheim is fully cooperating with police and doing everything he has been asked.