NEW YORK -- Things are going back and forth here at the Garden between No. 21 Syracuse and Washington, as Jon Brockman has just been hit with his second foul only 4:15 into tonight's NIT Season Tip-off consolation game.

While not nearly in the same numbers as Wednesday night, Syracuse fans have returned today to root their Orangemen on, as Washington leads 9-8 on some nice shooting by freshman shooting guard Venoy Overton, junior point Justin Dentmon and sophomore center Joe Wolfinger.

Washington doesn't seem to have any trouble penetrating that patented 3-2 zone that Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim has stuck by over the years, and it helps too when the Huskies are shooting as well as they from the perimeter right now.