Author: Drew Carter
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Syracuse WR Jamal Custis Lights Up Spring Practice Scrimmage
Dino Babers is a wide receiver whisperer. The Syracuse head coach claims to have put at least 25 wideouts in the NFL, and several pass-catchers have recorded career seasons under Babers‚Äô tutelage. His teams almost always feature at least one prolific receiver; this weekend, we got a glimpse of who that guy could be in…
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Syracuse “in the Running” for Four-Star PG Tremont Waters
Patience is a virtue, and it‚Äôs never been more important for Syracuse fans. Over the past couple years, Jim Boeheim and company have developed a habit of chasing down recruits at the last possible second and locking them down just before the buzzer. It happened last season with Taurean Thompson and Andrew White III (technically…
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Highly-Touted 2017 Recruit Jordan Tucker Visits Syracuse
Syracuse‚Äôs 2017 basketball recruiting class has been begging for a headliner ever since Quade Green spurned the Orange and abandoned a group that still doesn‚Äôt include any four- or five-star players. Fortunately, the coaching carousel has left several blue-chip recruits searching for new homes, and Jim Boeheim is ready to pounce (hello, Tremont Waters). One…
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Meet New Syracuse Assistant Coach Allen Griffin
When Mike Hopkins left Syracuse to take the reins at Washington a few weeks ago, the most glaring hole that opened on the Orange‚Äôs staff was head-coach-in-waiting. With the man who had been expected to replace Jim Boeheim for more than a decade now on the other side of the country, who would take over…
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Syracuse Center Paschal Chukwu Expected to Apply for Medical Redshirt
All the height and length in the world doesn‚Äôt help you if you can‚Äôt see. Syracuse basketball fans were forced to grapple with that cold truth during the 2016-17 season, which was supposed to feature an impossibly stretchy wrecking ball at the heart of the 2-3 zone. But Paschal Chukwu‚Äôs first campaign in Central New…
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How Did Saturday’s Conference Tournament Action Affect Syracuse’s Selection Sunday Hopes?
Championship Week was short-lived for Syracuse, but that didn‚Äôt give the Orange a license to ignore conference championships across the nation. Most league championships affect SU‚Äôs NCAA Tournament fate in one way or another ‚Äî bubble teams try to make one final positive impression and bid thieves potentially put a damper on the ‚ÄòCuse‚Äôs Big…
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2018 RB Henry Geil to Visit Syracuse
Green Bay, Wisconsin, is known for football, and pretty much nothing else (aside from cheese, maybe). Although the city‚Äôs reputation stems from the Packers, its high school pigskin scene is set to produce a player who could carry the mail for the Syracuse offense in the near future. Class of 2018 running back Henry Geil…
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No. 7 Louisville Incinerates Syracuse, 88-68
At the Carrier Dome, this year‚Äôs iteration of Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball can beat anyone. The Orange has proven that time and again, most recently with a miraculous win over one of the nation‚Äôs scariest squads. But for as dangerous as Jim Boeheim‚Äôs team has been inside the friendly confines of the Loud House, it has…
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Syracuse falls to No. 8 Louisville, 76-72, in Overtime Heartbreaker
Even Tinkerbell runs out of pixie dust. In a marquee Monday night matchup that drew more than 25,000 fans to the Carrier Dome, Syracuse picked up its slingshot and took aim at another Goliath. A win over Louisville would have been the Orange‚Äôs third over a top-10 team this season ‚Äî a season that looked…
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Evaluating Syracuse’s NCAA Tournament Chances After Toppling Virginia
In hindsight, we probably should have seen this coming. This year‚Äôs iteration of Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball was always far too talented to remain in the dregs of the ACC. Grad transfers Andrew White III and John Gillon accompanied a solid incoming freshman class, joining forces with Tyler Lydon, one of the nation‚Äôs most promising returning…
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Syracuse Offers Highly-Touted 2019 Safety Litchfield Ajavon
When it comes to recruiting, Syracuse football coach Dino Babers isn‚Äôt one to procrastinate. Today, Babers and company offered a scholarship to highly-touted and tremendously-named safety Litchfield Ajavon, a member of the Class of 2019. Wipe off your glasses and check your calendar; no, that wasn‚Äôt a typo. Ajavon wouldn‚Äôt be wearing Orange for another…
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Syracuse Forward Tyler Lydon’s Play Is the Opposite of a Silver Lining
If the 2016-17 Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball season isn‚Äôt already in the sewage system, it‚Äôs rapidly approaching the bottom of the toilet. The Orange‚Äôs nightmare campaign continued to hurtle down the proverbial cliff on Saturday, with an uncompetitive loss at Notre Dame dropping Jim Boeheim‚Äôs team to 11-9 (3-4 ACC) ‚Äî a record that features exactly…
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Syracuse Offers Two 2018 Wide Receivers
If Dino Babers‚Äô name is associated with any position in football, it is certainly the wide receiver. Over the past decade, the current Syracuse head coach has unearthed and unleashed guys like Josh Gordon, Terrance Williams, Roger Lewis, and, most recently, some dude named Amba Etta-Tawo. In all, Babers claims to have sent at least…
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Syracuse Targets 2017 Recruit Chris Duarte
When they peruse recruiting leaderboards, Syracuse fans likely aren’t accustomed to clicking ‚Äúsee more‚Äù to find their team. That‚Äôs the case, however, for the Class of 2017, from which the Orange has locked down a whopping two recruits. While OShae Brissett and Bourama Sidibe are promising talents, they‚Äôre the lone members of a group currently…
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Syracuse Blitzes Pittsburgh, 77-66
Maybe they found some of Michael‚Äôs Secret Stuff. Perhaps they stumbled upon a few pairs of the sneakers from Like Mike. For all we know, each player may have been replaced by a Terminator. Or maybe the Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball team just started to click, thanks to a confluence of factors ‚Äî lineup tweaks by…
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Can Syracuse Exploit Miami’s Weaknesses and Manufacture an Upset?
Syracuse‚Äôs trainwreck of a men‚Äôs basketball season rumbles along the tracks of despair. Up next on the route: a loss to Miami (FL) on Wednesday night in the Carrier Dome. Ok, maybe it‚Äôs unfair to chalk this one up as an L already, but the Orange has done nothing to inspire even a shred of…
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New Year’s Resolutions for Syracuse Basketball
2016 was a roller coaster of a year for Syracuse basketball. It began with a 64-51 loss to Pittsburgh, the second of four consecutive losses to open the ACC slate. The Orange‚Äôs season realistically should have ended in early March, when another loss to those Panthers eliminated SU in the first round of the conference…
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Syracuse Wraps Up Nonconference Slate with 80-56 Win Over Cornell
With a few minutes remaining in Syracuse‚Äôs manhandling of Cornell on Tuesday night, Tyler Roberson attempted to tip in a missed Orange jumper while surrounded by three opponents. The SU senior‚Äôs Herculean effort came up short, much to the chagrin of one man on the sidelines. Although his team led by 26 points and a…
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A Blueprint to Fix the Syracuse Offense
Syracuse men’s basketball’s putrid start to the season has felt like one large lump of coal in Orange Nation‚Äôs collective stocking. SU has dropped five nonconference games for the first time since Jim Boeheim took the reins in 1976, leaving the team in grave danger of missing the NCAA Tournament. Of course, Syracuse still has…
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Can Syracuse Salvage Its Season and Make the NCAA Tournament?
The Grinch came early this year for Syracuse basketball. The Orange was thoroughly embarrassed in the Carrier Dome Wednesday night, rolling over as a mediocre-at-best St. John‚Äôs team cruised to a 93-60 obliteration. It was the most lopsided home defeat Jim Boeheim has suffered during his four-plus decades as SU head coach. That certainly looks…
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How Is the ACC Faring in Nonconference Play?
Jim Boeheim has provided several memorable quotes during his four-plus-decade tenure as head coach of the Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball team (‚Äúdumb question,‚Äù most recently), but none quite as famous as one from the late Dennis Green: ‚ÄúThey are who we thought they were!‚Äù The football coach was referring to the 2006 Chicago Bears, who had…
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Scouting Report: Boston University
It‚Äôs time for the Get-Right Game, Take Two ‚Äî Syracuse basketball looks to get back on track against a team that shouldn‚Äôt compete with the Orange. The narrow win over North Florida didn‚Äôt do the trick; now, Boston University visits the Carrier Dome to take on a reeling SU team. The Patriot League‚Äôs Terriers (which…
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Who in the World Are the North Florida Ospreys?
After dipping its toes into the Power Five waters and finding them to be freezing cold, the Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball team returns to the comfort of playing cupcake opponents this weekend. North Florida visits the Carrier Dome on Saturday in a ‚Äúget-right‚Äù game for the Orange ‚Äî one that Jim Boeheim‚Äôs team should win handily.…
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Wisconsin Was the Worst Possible Matchup for Syracuse
During its current two-game losing streak, Syracuse has been dominated once on each side of the floor. First, South Carolina completely shut down the Orange‚Äôs offense over the weekend, limiting SU to 50 points (including an embarrassing eight in the paint) on 31.8 percent shooting. Then, Wisconsin picked apart Jim Boeheim‚Äôs patented 2-3 zone on…
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Syracuse Stumbles Against South Carolina, 64-50
The defining stretch of Saturday‚Äôs game between Syracuse and South Carolina came in the first few minutes. Roughly 90 seconds in, after the Gamecocks opened the matinee matchup with back-to-back three-pointers, SU head coach Jim Boeheim yanked his starting point guard, Franklin Howard, and replaced him with John Gillon. Then, exactly one minute later, Boeheim…
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South Carolina Is No Joke, and a Dangerous Matchup for Syracuse
South Carolina is a football school. There‚Äôs no denying that. But this year, the Gamecocks basketball team looks like a legitimate tournament contender; a group that can hang with almost anybody in the country, and put a scare into the cream of the college hoops crop. USC is 5-0, coming off an impressive 61-46 win…
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2017 Syracuse Target Quade Green to Announce Committment Saturday Night
On Saturday night, when Quade Green announces where he‚Äôll play college basketball, Syracuse may feel like a jaded lover.¬†SU has been pursuing the five-star point guard for at least two years, and his commitment to the Orange felt like a done deal as recently as last week. But the latest rumblings say Green could be…
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Syracuse Hasn’t Even Unveiled Its Most Dangerous Lineup Yet
In 2015-16, when the Golden State Warriors set a new NBA record with 73 regular season wins, the team‚Äôs not-so-secret weapon was the aptly-named ‚ÄúDeath Lineup,‚Äù featuring five players who could each handle the ball, facilitate the offense, defend several different positions, and ‚Äî most importantly ‚Äî knock down jumpers from the perimeter. This year,…
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Syracuse Races Past Colgate, 83-55, in Season Opener
About 12 minutes into Syracuse‚Äôs 2016-17 basketball season, Taurean Thompson yanked down a defensive rebound, and fired an outlet pass to John Gillon. Gillon trotted across halfcourt, taking two leisurely dribbles, and stared down Tyler Roberson, who was streaking down the left side of the floor. As Gillon stood on top of Jim Boeheim‚Äôs signature…
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Which Syracuse QB Will Start if Eric Dungey Can’t?
When Eric Dungey took a bone-crunching hit to the head at Clemson on Saturday, it was almost as if you could hear a collective gasp from Orange Nation. And when Syracuse‚Äôs star quarterback stayed on the ground at Memorial Stadium, head coach Dino Babers must have seen his team‚Äôs season flash before his eyes. Now,…
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No. 2 Clemson Steamrolls Syracuse, 54-0
Before Syracuse football‚Äôs showdown with No. 2 Clemson on Saturday, Orange Nation had several legitimate reasons to believe its team could hang with the Tigers. Clemson entered the contest as four-touchdown favorites, but SU had won its past two games (including a 31-17 victory over 17th-ranked Virginia Tech, the program‚Äôs first win over a ranked…
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Syracuse Guard Tyus Battle Shines in Collegiate Debut
The Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball team came out flat to begin its first game in a 2016-2017 campaign packed with expectations. About six minutes into the Orange‚Äôs preseason opener against Division II Indiana (Pa.), Jim Boeheim‚Äôs team trailed, 20-5. That‚Äôs when freshman guard Tyus Battle came to the rescue. Battle, who had spent barely a minute…
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2017 RB Markenzy Pierre Flips Commitment to Syracuse
Dino Babers and company continue to load up on promising skill-position players in the Class of 2017. On Saturday, three-star running back Markenzy Pierre flipped his commitment from Western Kentucky to Syracuse. Pierre pledged to the Hilltoppers in early July, but the Orange recently swooped in and displayed increased interest after initially contacting the Florida…
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Syracuse Trapped in Absurdly-Good ACC
Most basketball fans recognize the Atlantic Coast Conference as the preeminent league in college hoops. It has claimed seven of the past 16 national championships, and while the Big East‚Äôs Villanova cut the nets last season, the ACC put together the best conference-wide NCAA Tournament performance of all time. Six of the Sweet 16 and…
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Syracuse Holds Off Boston College, 28-20
It looked like it was going to be one of those days for Syracuse. On the first drive of the Orange‚Äôs game at Boston College on Saturday, SU drove down to the BC 35-yard-line, and was within striking distance of the home team‚Äôs end zone. Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey used a hard count to draw…
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Key to Syracuse vs. Boston College: Run-Pass Ratio
Boston College hasn‚Äôt won a game against an ACC opponent in more than two years, but the Eagles are favored by 4.5 points in their game against Syracuse on Saturday. BC isn‚Äôt a cupcake, by any means ‚Äî Steve Addazio‚Äôs squad is 3-3 this season ‚Äî but it is an extraordinarily unbalanced team that features…
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