In this scheme, the Patriots' safeties divided the field in half and played zone defense.
The experienced Orange are perfectly content to wear teams down with their octopus-like zone defense.
Creighton started out by relying almost entirely on the 3-point shot against Syracuse's zone defense.
Before the game, Scott talked about using a zone defense the Cavs recently employed with limited success.
Sparked by Boeheim's vaunted 2-3 zone defense, they started playing better when they headed to New York for the Big East tournament.
"I thought they struggled against it, " Purnell said of the zone defense.
Two wins later, the Wolverines are in the Final Four, and their basketball smarts will be tested again Saturday by Syracuse's zone defense.
And when they get in a groove with their stifling zone defense, especially at this time of year, they are tough to break down.
The Rebels had a height advantage over La Salle's four-guard lineup and outrebounded the Explorers 40-30 but failed to make their zone defense work.
The way it survived Syracuse and its dogged zone defense Saturday also helped Michigan get ready to handle Louisville, Wolverines forward Glenn Robinson III said.
The Wolverines will have their work cut out against Syracuse (30-9), a team that has totally stuffed its NCAA opponents with a stifling zone defense.
The 3-pointer should play a big role Saturday, as Syracuse is the first Creighton opponent all season that relies almost exclusively on a zone defense.
And for Syracuse, well, it's coach Jim Boeheim's 2-3 zone defense.
Pikeville then proceeded to back up into a 2-3 zone defense for the rest of the half where they ballooned to an unheard of 70-0 lead.
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Indiana forward Cody Zeller's attempts at scoring down low against Syracuse's zone defense in Thursday's Sweet 16 game resembled a man trying to lift a bus.
Cal confused UNLV with 40 minutes of zone defense, which Montgomery couldn't recall employing for such a long stretch since he was at Montana from 1977-86.
Fair added 13 and the fourth-seeded Orange shut down No. 13 seed Montana with their zone defense in an 81-34 victory in the second round Thursday night.
Star guard Will Cherry shot just 1 for 12 and the 13th-seeded Grizzlies had no answers for No. 4 seed Syracuse's zone defense in an 81-34 loss Thursday night.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Cal coach Mike Montgomery has been reluctant to use a zone defense much this season because, frankly, his team hasn't been very good at it.
Arizona (20-3, 8-3) never fully recovered after struggling against Cal's zone defense to open in the second half and had a rare letdown on defense, allowing Cal to shoot 59 percent.
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DePaul entered the game shooting 30.1 percent from 3-point range and Syracuse's staunch 2-3 zone defense was tied with Providence for the stingiest against the long-range game in the Big East, allowing 28.9 percent.
The Bears started the second half just the way they did the first pushing the pace, swarming around in that zone defense and swishing shots with ease to go ahead 37-31 on a 3-pointer by Cobbs.
If Louisville makes it through to next Monday night's title game, the opponent would be either Michigan, sporting a new group of Fab Wolverines, or Syracuse, which comes at you with the stingiest zone defense in college basketball.
Boeheim entered Thursday with 50 wins in the tournament, fourth-most in history, and more than 900 victories overall, with so much of that success built on his unusual zone defense, 40 minutes of a puzzle for opponents to try and solve.
He entered Thursday with 50 wins in the tournament, fourth-most in history, and more than 900 victories overall, with so much of that success built on his unusual zone defense, 40 minutes of a puzzle for opponents to try and solve.
For as much attention and praise as Syracuse's 2-3 zone defense has received lately and rightly so, especially after holding both Indiana and Marquette to season-low point totals the Orange might not be where they are if it weren't for Carter-Williams' all-around game.
Because more than it was a product of one or two sublime players, this unexpected run to the Final Four came on the back of good coaching, a group of athletes who bought into a system in this case, Boeheim's 2-3 zone defense improved at it through the season, then hit their peak when March rolled around.
Brennan faked a shot at the right point and slid a pass across the zone to defense partner Campbell, who fired a slap shot from the upper inside edge of the right circle that appeared to clip the stick of Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh before it sailed past Lundqvist at 8:22.
Gone are the Devils who employed that stultifying neutral-zone trap and relied on Brodeur and their defense to save them.
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