Links: Let's Go Orange! (+ bonus FUNKYouTube)

Last night was marked the official start of the college basketball season for my beloved Syracuse Orange as they opened their short preseason schedule. I love the NFL, dig hard on baseball (read: Mets), college football and the NBA, but college hoops is where it's at for me and being a native Syracusan, it's all about the Orange. Let this post serve as a warning that I might delve deep into SU minutiae from here up until whatever painful exit they inflict on us faithful in March.

Some links:

• Pictured above is Paul Harris (hard to fathom that kid was in high school 6 months ago) who is the new wunderkind freshman for the team. We'll see if he lives up to the "next Carmelo" expectations, but here's a taste of the hype. Boeheim seems to indicate he's a one-and-done, but we'll see.
  
• Who knows if this shit means anything, but here's a neat slideshow of a little hardcore hoops boot camp.
• Who can deny that Jimmy Boeheim is the man? Here's a Q&A from USAToday.
• Basic optimistic preview from rivals.com.
• And while things are looking good for this year, perhaps the best thing to be excited about is that the future is bright: SU incoming recruiting class for next year is currently ranked #1

Feel free to discuss the upcoming hoops season below [snicker, snicker]. They'll be more, you've been warned.

And for those of you who couldn't care less but are looking to boogie, apropos of nothing except me and my girl just got down to this... funkucational!