Thanks for passing the baton, D.A. Man, it looks impressive, all shiny and…are those rhinestones? Wow, we’ve really overdone it.

We at CuseOrange are first-timers to the SOB’s. In fact, when we first heard about the awards, we just assumed the letters stood for the traditional meaning and sent a dead fish to Sean at TNIAAM, blasphemed Kenny’s Two Pennies, and *possibly* took Kristof Ongenaet’s name in vain. We thought we had won for sure. It turns out we were slightly misled and as a result, were left out of the voting, so I guess we got our just desserts. Anyway, let’s break our SOB hymen and proceed with the award.

There were about as many nominees as there have been changes to SU’s uniform schemes over the last five years.

An honorable mention goes to the Providence game…you know, the one where Jonny Flynn and Eric Devendorf combined for over 60 points and the team still lost. Ladies and gents, Nick’s Two Cents:

“The Providence game was pure torture to watch.  You knew it was a steep hill to climb with all the injuries and feisty Dunkin’ Donuts crowd – but still winnable.  But the defense was just so putrid – it was enough to drive an Orange fan insane.  I literally lost my mind for a minute there.  It led to my most bitter post in 18 months of running my blog.”

Matt Glaude of HoyaSuxa was slightly irked by the loss at Georgetown:

“Just barely losing to Georgetown down at the Verizon Center. Or getting absolutely demolished. I reject your reality and substitute my own.”

Ah, yes. Few things suck more than getting rolled by a rival which also just turned out to be one of college basketball’s biggest pumpkins in recent memory. The esteemed group of Black Ops Agents, Mensa Club members and Ironman Triathletes that comprise our forum also went with the GTown loss.

Matt at The Orange Report opened up another old wound:

“The home game against Villanova. After losing 6 of the previous 9 games, this was a chance to prove we were able to beat a top Big East team and we had 3 chances in the final 10 seconds to tie it.”

But in the end, recency and importance prevailed, and we are left with the season-ending loss to Blake Griffin, Tony Crocker, better known to some as “Longsleeves McGee,” and the rest of the Oklahoma Sooners in the Sweet Sixteen. Perhaps Ray at Superman Wears Rob Long Underoos put it best:

“Sweet 16 Loss to Oklahoma, I was reduced to the point of near tears for the first time in 4 years. So humiliating.”

Jameson Fleming from The Bleacher Report pondered what might have been:

“The loss to Oklahoma ended a great run and cost this team a chance at trying their hand against North Carolina.”

Meanwhile, D.A. has apparently been in a daze for the better part of two months:

“Oklahoma, Sweet 16. Can we hit a shot please? Can we guard that guy please? Ah, forget it.”

It’s OK, D.A. He can’t hurt you anymore. Just know that we’re praying for your recovery.

We winced with Jonny Flynn as he got steamrolled by Blake Griffin and was left seeing dollar signs while still managing to put up 22 points. As if the knife needed any more twisting, Crocker peed down his leg two days later against the Tar Heels in the Elite Eight, scoring 4 points in 25 minutes and going 0-5 from three point land after torching us for a career-high 28 points. Wonderful.

We now kick it over to The Sport Hump for Best Non-Boeheim Quote. We’re pulling for Doris Burke.

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