As temperatures dropped below freezing in Central and Western New York, instate foes the Syracuse Orange and Buffalo Bulls women’s basketball teams renewed their “rivalry” for the first time in 10 years — just over 1,200 miles away in the Bahamas. And unfortunately, for the third straight contest, the Orange fizzled out in the second half, falling 88-79 to the Bulls in the seventh-place game in the Battle 4 Atlantis.
For the second time in three days, a Syracuse team was run out of the gym by an in-state foe. The Bulls didn’t chuck quite as many threes as the Colgate men’s team, but they did shoot them at a more efficient clip, finishing 13-of-22 (59 percent) from beyond the arc.