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Wednesday, January 30, 2013  Syracuse University and St. John's have agreed to a home-and-home basketball series, continuing the Madison Square Garden game as well as the tradition of playing their New York State Big East Rivals.

Saturday, January 26, 2013  Several hits and other chippy plays were left unpoliced by the officiating crew, so the teams took it into their own hands with a huge brawl that spread from the line to a goalie fight at center ice.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013  Brittney Sykes pulled off a steal down by three points, and then nailed the game winning shot from beyond half-court at the buzzer

Thursday, October 04, 2012  Goals from Cory Conacher, Philip-Michael Devos, Richard Panik and Alex Killorn lifted the Crunch over the IceCaps in the first game of a three-game series.

Saturday, May 05, 2012  Led by a career-high tying six points from Tommy Palasek, the Syracuse men's lacrosse team built a 7-0 first half lead and never looked back en route to a 12-4 victory over St. John's to capture the inaugural BIG EAST Men's Lacrosse Championship.

Friday, May 04, 2012  Not only is the league championship on the line, but so is the BIG EAST's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament field of 16.

Friday, April 27, 2012  Despite goals from Mark Bell and Emerson Etem, and a six-of-seven outing from the Crunch penalty kill unit, the IceCaps rallied from a 2-0 deficit to advance to the second round of the Calder Cup Playoffs. St. John's won the best-of-five series 3-1.

Thursday, April 26, 2012  Dan Sexton scored the lone Syracuse goal as the Crunch fell to the St. John's IceCaps 5-1 tonight at the Mile One Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012  Never would Crunch center Riley Holzapfel have imagined a scenario where he'd be returning to St. John's to face his former team in a playoff atmosphere.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012  Syracuse's incredible late season surge included two wins in March over their first round playoff opponents the St. John's IceCaps, a team the Crunch were 3-1 against overall.

Saturday, March 10, 2012  With the victory, the Orange improved to 5-0 all-time against St. John's and 13-0 in BIG EAST play since the formation of the conference in 2010.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011  Freshmen Moe Harkless and D'Angelo Harrison had season highs of 32 and 25 points and St. John's opened Big East play with a 91-67 victory over Providence on Tuesday night, snapping the Friars' seven-game winning streak.

Wednesday, December 07, 2011  Kyle Palmieri’s second hat trick of the season lifted the Syracuse Crunch over the St. John’s IceCaps 5-3 tonight at the Mile One Centre.

Monday, December 05, 2011  Ray McCallum Jr. had 21 points and Chase Simon scored 20 to help Detroit beat St. John's 69-63 on Monday night in front of a season-high 5,377 fans in the Motor City.

Friday, May 06, 2011  The Orange can clinch its second straight outright BIG EAST regular-season title with a victory against the Red Storm.