The Syracuse University basketball team
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who has struggled to score all season, dropped 81 points on the Boston College Eagles on Wednesday night in a win at the Carrier Dome to improve to 14-6 (3-4 ACC).
The Orange hit 64.3 percent from the field and 55.6 percent from beyond the arc in the first half and 60.4 percent from the field and 43.8 percent from 3 for the game. The 47 points marked the biggest first half of the season for Syracuse.
All five Syracuse players who played significant minutes (Matthew Moyer left with an ankle injury) scored in double figures.
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"I think we had better movement and our turnovers were better," Jim Boeheim said. "We had time to work on our shooting. You never know when you get that time, if it’s really going to help or not, but I think overall it was a positive. We played much better tonight than our last game. Offensively, this is probably the best game we’ve played all year — by all measures.”