Syracuse won - heart-stopping 6-overtime

Syracuse won an exhausting back-and-forth Big East Tournament quarterfinal game against Connecticut 127-117, a game that went into 6 overtime periods and lasted into this morning. The matchup went down into the record books as the longest game in Big East Tournament history. The game lasted nearly four hours.

The Huskies retained their chairmen-of-the-board status, led by center Hasheem Thabeet. But the Orange offset the second-chance points by UConn, scoring off Huskie turnovers. UConn led at the halftime break, but SU caught up and took the lead 64-57 with less than four minutes to play in regulation.

After that, it was one heart attack play after the other.

The granddaddy came when Eric Devendorf drained a three-pointer at the end of regulation that looked like a game-winner. But officials ruled the ball left Devo's hands after time ran out. That sent the game into the first of six overtimes.

UConn packs up and goes home to get a rest before next week's NCAA tournament. SU advances to meet West Virginia in the conference semifinals later tonight.

Syracuse went into the game seeded No. 6 in the tournament. UConn was seeded No. 3.

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