On to Sweet 16 for Syracuse
By: John Kucko
Updated: March 22, 2009
(Miami) Jonny Flynn set up Andy Rautins 3-pointer that started a game-saving Syracuse run, then hit Eric Devendorf for two more 3s less than a minute apart shortly after, and the third-seeded Orange held off the sixth-seeded Arizona State Sun Devils 78-67 in a South Regional second-round game Sunday.
"All three of us were just patient and we took what was open," Devendorf said. "When we do that, good things happen."
Good things like a trip to Memphis, for example.
Devendorf finished with 21 points and Rautins added 17 for Syracuse (28-9), which moves on to play Blake Griffin and second-seeded Oklahoma (29-5) in Memphis on Friday, a spot in the regional final against either North Carolina or Gonzaga at stake for the winner.
