Youd have to look hard to find flaws in a team that has outscored its opponents by an average of 31 points per game, but Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim eventually found something he could use to motivate his team following a 71-50 blowout of Monmouth on Friday.Boeheim, now in his 41st year at Syracuse, said the 17th-ranked Orange need to do a better job of protecting the ball when it faces South Carolina State in a Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational game at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday at the Carrier Dome.Syracuse committed 16 turnovers against Monmouth Friday, including 10 in the second half, after turning the ball over a combined 20 times in its first two games against Colgate and Holy Cross.We cant have our point guards just giving the ball up like that, Boeheim said. They didnt score any points in the second half except off turnovers.Actually, the Hawks scored only eight of their 21 second-half points off turnovers. But its true that Orange point guards Frank Howard and John Gillon, who combined for 27 assists and five turnovers in the first two games, were both a little shaky against Monmouth with a combined seven assists and four turnovers.Im not worried about John. Hes a good player and he went against a good kid (Friday) thats really good (Monmouth point guard Justin Robinson), Boeheim said. He made a couple of mistakes, Frank made a couple of mistakes. Thats why we play these games, to try to learn from those mistakes.The Orange will play another one of these games Tuesday against a South Carolina State team that fell to 1-2 Friday after a 92-50 loss to South Carolina. The Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational is a five-team, round-robin tournament that includes Syracuse, South Carolina, South Carolina State, Monmouth and Holy Cross.Last season, the Bulldogs enjoyed their best season since 2005 as they finished 19-15 overall and 12-4 in the Mid-Eastern Atlantic Conference and advanced to the title game of the MEAC Tournament. The leagues coaches and athletic directors picked S.C. State to finish second in the MEAC this year behind Howard -- the first time since 2003 the Bulldogs have been picked as high as second in the preseason.But with six new players, the Bulldogs are still finding their way as they were thumped by a strong Wichita State team 85-39 and defeated NAIA member St. Andrews University 93-76 before losing to South Carolina. The Bulldogs shot only 30.8 percent (16-for-52) and were outrebounded 47-24 against the Gamecocks, and theyll have to do far better than that if they want to stay in the game against Syracuse.It was a tough loss for our team tonight against a very talented and well-coached South Carolina team, but we have to learn from this and keep moving forward, said Bulldogs coach Murray Gavin, the 2015-16 MEAC Coach of the Year. They had 28 second-chance points to our four and that was the deciding factor down the stretch.The Bulldogs are led by All-MEAC Preseason first-team selection Eric EJ Eaves, who averaged 17.3 points per game last season and is scoring at a 15.3-point clip this year. Fifth-year transfer guard Andrew White is leading the Orange in scoring at 18 points per game and hes shooting 38.5 percent (10 of 26) from 3-point range. Michael Thomas Jersey . Philadelphia is 2-0 against the Senators this season and scored five goals in each victory. 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Thousands of Southern California fans enveloped the Trojans to celebrate an improbable win secured by an interim coach, an inconsistent kicker and a thin defence that wouldnt break. Nick Fairley Jersey . If ever they start actually putting pictures beside words in the dictionary, the Blue Jays left-handers mug will appear beside “Consistency. In a roundabout sort of way the All Blacks probably took some motivation out of the whole bugging scandal last week.Michael Cheika has denied Australian involvement in the scandal, and NSW Police have confirmed that gambling links will form part of their continued investigations,, but the All Blacks performance against Australia in the Rugby Championship-opening Bledisloe Cup Test in Sydney basically said: Youre welcome to listen, but try to stop us.I believe the device was put there for information on the All Blacks. Ive had suspicions in the past. This sort of thing has been going on for a number of years.Ive played in games where all of a sudden the opposition knew your lineout calls or whatever; but apart from a few things you can only ever get a very small percentage. Youre never going to get an edge if you dont have the cattle; nothing is going to help you.When you were playing with Jonah Lomu you would get plenty of spying going on, but at the end of the day the opposition still had to tackle him and spying couldnt help them do that.Its been around for a long time. Weve had guys hiding in the trees or spying on you, or trying to get information out of you. Then remember last year at Eden Park when someone was filming Michael Cheikas clipboard and they got some inside oil; but you are only ever going to get a very tiny piece of information.In all honesty, Im really pleasantly surprised at the way the All Blacks fronted up. Ill put my hand up and say that I thought they would win, but I never thought they would just turn up and deliver the complete performance. From one to 15 they were on their game last Saturday.You quite often see mistake in Test matches, errors caused by one person not quite being on top of their game. But I reckon the whole squad were in for a big game, and when you get them all wanting to play the best game they possibly can you get what I believe was one of the best All Blacks performances I have seen in a long time.That was right through from Kieran Read leading the team to Dane Coles coming off the bench; what a cameo performance the hooker put on. Rib injuries are horrible; they are something you cannot hide. They are there every time you move, and you feel it; not only in the game but also during the build-up when you cant lie properly in bed and you have to be careful how you move about.I was surprised he got put on the bench; if you are not good enough to start then why should you be on the bench? And as Steve Hansen said, he might have to come on after only a couple of minutes in the game. I thought he was going to be tested when he came on, but he gutsed it out and it was probably the longest Test hes ever played. When you think about it, hookers usually come off with about 60 minutes gone. To get 78 minutes, or however long it was, was tremendous.If he had gone down, which was on the cards, they would have had to go to uncontested scrums.ddddddddddddWhere do the Australians turn to now? And how do the All Blacks improve on that?It is a great position for the All Blacks to be in, and a deliberate knockout punch this weekend will be the icing on the cake for New Zealand fans. But backing up a good performance like that is tough.Its like a boxing match where youve got someone on the ropes and youve just got to keep going; you cant back down. The Australians have taken a beating and theyve only got two places to go: they either step up and perform, or they remain on the canvas.From what we saw on Saturday night, Im not sure whether they have the game plan or the answers. And then you had the Wallabies team named in positions only for the No.8 David Pocock to appear on the side of the scrum with Ben McCalman at No.8? It doesnt make any difference, and those sorts of games, or psychological ploys, wear thin after a while.If it was intended to undo the preparation you need to remember these guys all know each other well. They play each other in Super Rugby and they know who they are up against. It doesnt matter whether Pocock has No. 6, No. 7 or No. 8 on his back; he could have worn No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 ?and it wouldnt matter.The way the All Blacks shifted the ball and shifted the point of contact through their handling skills, they were just unbelievable. It was incredible stuff, and I couldnt believe I was watching it. The opposition can only do so much, and it is hard to come up with something against nigh-on brilliance.But the Wallabies arent the only ones with a challenge on their hands; the All Blacks face one, too. New Zealand now have to go out and back it up; they must look at how they play and consider what changes to make, and what forced changes they have to look at. Its an exciting time.Weve talked about Beauden Barrett a fair bit in this column, and rightfully so after winning a Super Rugby title, but he just adds so much. Its contagious when your conductor, and thats how he wants to play, results in old fellows like Jerome Kaino charging down kicks, regathering and scoring.Barrett just seems to revel in that All Blacks environment; he backs up his performance week in and week out. Steve Hansen has said in the past that he selects players or drops them on how they play for the All Blacks and not on how they play anywhere else, and hes so right.Players can go back to their franchises, and for whatever reason things dont go their way or they dont perform; but if theyve always performed in an All Blacks jersey then that level of trust ensures they wont let that jersey down. And they havent. And I think a lot of credit has to be given to the management team in the All Blacks. Theyve got the mixture, the culture and the environment right. 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