Tag: recruiting
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Quinn Costello, Imahri Wooten Among Syracuse Recruiting Targets Dominating NEPSAC
Friday’s action at Babson College started at noon, but still was a jam-packed festival of recruiting. Syracuse coaches, among many other high profile schools, strolled from gym to gym for nine consecutive hours of games. Their reward: multiple hugs, dap-ups, and lengthy conversations with top tier recruits. While there were over 400 prospects playing throughout…
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12 Recruits with Syracuse Interest Competing at NEPSAC: Who’s on the Radar?
College basketball recruiting season rages on, although this weekend’s tournament is unlike any other showcase this summer. Jam packed between the multitude of AAU and EYBL events for the hopeful college hoopers, the NEPSAC Summer Showcase features high school squads. These won’t be teams that were just created mere months ago, or players donning the…
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Fran Brown lands another New Jersey athlete
Another day, another Garden State recruit for Syracuse Men’s Football. It almost seems like a pattern is forming! This time it’s Josiah Zayas. The 2026 recruit announced on X today that he’s committed to the Orange. Zayas lists himself as an athlete, usually meaning one can play a variety of positions on both sides of…
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Syracuse lands speedy 2025 three-star wide receiver Gabe Daniels
In the ever-expanding 2025 class for Syracuse football, the Orange grabbed some wide receiver depth yesterday with the commitment of three-star wide receiver Gabe Daniels. The Georgia native becomes Syracuse’s third receiver commit in the 2024 class, joining Darien Williams and Julian McFadden. It’s the latest recruiting win for Syracuse over other Power Four competitive…
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Syracuse Football 2025 Recruiting Up to No. 15 Ranking
Yes, that picture is real. Syracuse football’s 2025 recruiting class is ranked above Georgia right now. The Orange, according to 247 Sports, have a top-15 class in the nation. New head coach Fran Brown has already done wonders this offseason, bringing in top-40 rankings in the class of ‘24 and this season’s transfer class. If…
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Syracuse Basketball Recruiting Solidifies Class of 2024
Syracuse basketball recruiting has been strong in this cycle. Earlier this year, the Orange received verbal commitments from Donnie Freeman and Elijah Moore, both four-star recruits in 247 Sports’ rankings. This week, SU will confirm those commitments when each player signs their National Letter of Intent. Donnie Freeman, the 28th-ranked recruit, announced that he picked…
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Syracuse Basketball Recruiting Update Post-Elite Camp
While the start of football season and conference realignment are all the rage right now, Syracuse basketball is quietly flying under the radar of priorities when it comes to their recruiting endeavors in recent weeks. While there have been no commitments or scheduling of visits, there have been prospects on campus recently, with the Orange’s…
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The Donnie Freeman Hype is Growing
When Donnie Freeman committed to Syracuse back in the Spring, it was a sign that Adrian Autry was going to waste no time changing the way things were done under Jim Boeheim at SU. Freeman’s commitment was a sign that Autry’s vision was already put into play just months after he had taken over as…
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Could this be Dino Babers’ Final Season at Syracuse?
As the 8th season of Dino Babers as the head coach of the Syracuse football program creeps closer and closer, it’s time to take a further look at what the possibilities are for a man who has been in SU fans’ lives since 2016. In his first seven seasons with the Orange, Babers has gone…
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Does Judah Mintz’s Return Help or Hurt Syracuse’s Recruiting?
Syracuse received the best news for the 2023-24 season, its first under new head coach Adrian Autry when star guard Judah Mintz withdrew from the NBA Draft and announced his return to the Orange for his sophomore season. Undoubtedly this makes the Orange better in the short term and gives the program legitimate NCAA tournament…
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Naheem McCloud Visiting Syracuse This Weekend
Syracuse has been pretty quiet on the transfer portal recruiting trail since Chance Westry announced his commitment to the Orange back in mid-April. But, now that early May is upon us, the pickings are slim for SU to find its center in the portal, with the deadline for new players to enter on May 11.…
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Time is Running Out For Syracuse to Find a Center
As has been the case all offseason around college basketball, the transfer portal giveth, but the transfer portal also taketh. For Syracuse, that has included losing Symir Torrence, John Bol Ajak, Joe Girard III, and most importantly, Jesse Edwards. But, the additions of J.J. Starling and Chance Westry can’t be understated, and they’ll provide a…
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Syracuse is the Place to Unlock Chance Westry
Syracuse got its second commitment out of the transfer portal earlier this week when Auburn guard Chance Westry pledged to the Orange. Westry later signed his letter of intent and intends to play a significant role for SU this season and into the future. As highlighted earlier in the week on the Fizz, Syracuse had…
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Analyzing Syracuse’s National Championship Watch Party
On Tuesday morning, Adrian Autry tweeted a picture of a group of his players gathered for dinner and to watch the national championship game on Monday night between Connecticut and San Diego State. The Huskies ended up winning comfortably, as they did all tournament, but from a Syracuse perspective, maybe the most interesting part of…
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Syracuse’s Offseason Theme: Continuity
It’s been three weeks to the day since Adrian Autry was introduced as Syracuse’s next head coach, and since that day, everything he’s done with his staff and his roster has been deliberate and strategic. First, it was bringing in J.J Starling, a player he recruited throughout high school, and now is maybe the most…
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Quiet on All Fronts = Good Sign for Autry
As the end of March approaches, all is quiet with Syracuse basketball. After the commotion that was the beginning of the month, with Jim Boeheim’s departure, Adrian Autry’s ascent, JJ Starling’s arrival, and announcements from Judah Mintz and Joe Girard III regarding their future, we’ve finally reached a stable point. That’s all to say that…
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Jackpot! JJ Starling Transfers to Syracuse
The post-Jim Boeheim era is less than a week fresh, but it has already delivered in a monumental way. Former five-star recruit and McDonald’s All American JJ Starling is heading home, where he grew up in Baldwinsville, to join SU after one season at Notre Dame. In other words, the Adrian Autry reign is here.…
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Not Getting Marcus Adams Jr Continues SU Recruiting Narrative
Over the past few months, things have finally started to percolate on the recruiting trail for Syracuse. Elijah Moore committed in January to start the 2024 class, then William Patterson kickstarted the 2023 class last month, but the key to either of those classes would have been Marcus Adams Jr, who committed to Kansas Tuesday…
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The End is Going to be Ugly for Jim Boeheim
A couple of months ago, we at The Fizz wrote a piece about how the end was near for Jim Boeheim, and how it wasn’t going to be pretty. Well, since then, it’s gone from not pretty to ugly, as Syracuse has lost back-to-back games by 18+ points for the first time since 1968, 55…
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Syracuse Must Play an “A” Game to Beat Duke
The most one-sided rivalry in the ACC returns to Central New York this weekend, as Duke, whose fans do not care much about Syracuse, travels to the Dome to face the Orange, whose fans are obsessed with the Blue Devils. Especially with Coach K now gone, this “rivalry” has never been deader, especially with the…
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Syracuse’s Play on the Court Will Affect Its Recruiting off the Court
It’s been another up-and-down season for Syracuse basketball, and that all starts with the man in charge, Jim Boeheim. After going with an experienced-laden group last season, Boeheim created a youth movement with the Orange to go along with his senior leaders, Joe Girard III and Jesse Edwards, plus backup point guard Symir Torrence. Aside…
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What Position Group Should Syracuse be Recruiting Hardest?
It’s been well-documented that Syracuse has no future recruits committed to playing for the program beyond this season. Yes, the Orange have a bevy of young players on the team right now, but there’s always turnover in the offseason. Whether through the transfer portal, NBA Draft, or graduation, SU will lose players. So, as the…
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How Does Syracuse’s 5-4 Start Impact its Recruiting?
SU is coming off a massive blowout win over Oakland on Tuesday night, where the Orange took down the Golden Grizzlies 95-66. There were a lot of positives to take away, and some negatives, but one main thing that comes to mind is that everyone comes to the same conclusions after every game. It’s an…
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Is Kiyan Anthony Inevitably Orange?
In 2003, a banner was raised thanks large in part to a soon-to-be Syracuse legend named Carmelo Anthony. Nearly twenty years after the Orange claimed their first NCAA championship, Anthony’s son, a four-star shooting guard according to 247Sports, was offered by SU. So the script is written and the result is inevitable, right? Well, let’s…
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Do Syracuse’s Early Season Struggles Prove Jim Boeheim Doesn’t Fit with the Roster?
Six freshmen, one transfer. A class that Jim Boeheim, in his 47th year at the helm, having recruited players like Billy Owens, Carmelo Anthony, Johnny Flynn and Michael Carter-Williams, called his best ever. Well, after three games, the ‘Cuse head man is retreading on those words. “Right now, Colgate is a better team than we…
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Colgate Loss Hurts More Than Just the Record
Syracuse’s program is in a precarious position. The Orange have accumulated a lot of recruiting assets coming out of the sanctions laid down by the NCAA in the middle of the last decade. SU decided to cash a lot in for the class of 2022, headlined by Judah Mintz, a top-40 player. But, going all…
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Same ‘Ol Story: The Cuse Gone Fishing on Four Star Recruit Thomas Sorber
It’s never pleasing to sound like a broken record, but it’s rather easy to do so with SU’s recruiting trend. So instead of subjecting SU fans to another negative-heavy write-up about Jim Boeheim’s astounding zero recruits in the class of 2023, let’s advance forward to ’24. Specifically, a recruit whose recent success in the national…
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Could Adam Weitsman Change SU Recruiting?
It‚Äôs been well documented, whether it be here on The Fizz or somewhere else, that Syracuse basketball has not recruited well over the past half-dozen years or so. Many thought the 2022 class could be the turning point back to relevance, and that might still be the case, but with the cupboard still barren for…
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What is Backup Plan for JP Estrella?
Syracuse has made it clear that JP Estrella is its top target in the class of 2023. The rising senior who is attending Brewster Academy in New Hampshire is a big man with lots of potential. Up until last season, the Orange had gotten minimal production at best from their centers since Rakeem Christmas graduated…
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Part III: Syracuse Football is Successful If… Secondary Stars Show Out
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