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For nearly four hours at Madison Square Garden in New York, their teams had waged a back-and-forth, six-overtime marathon in the Big East Tournament. No. 18 Syracuse finally outlasted third-ranked Connecticut 127-117 in a quarterfinal that started Thursday night and ended at 1:22 a.m. Friday — the second-longest game in Division I history. “For a second I’m just thinking, ‘Lord, let’s just get this game over, go home. Whoever wins, wins the game,’ ” said Syracuse’s Jonny Flynn, right, who played 67 of the 70 possible minutes. “It was just getting near that time.” The Associated Press; Getty Images photo
