Tag: Syracuse basketball recruiting
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ESPN’s Thamel: Autry, Not McNamara, Deserves SU Job
With Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball well past its premature 2021-22 finish line and the NCAA Tournament hitting full force today, the end of basketball season is in sight. However, Syracuse basketball‚Äôs constant speculation on the future of its head coach has no such offseason ahead of it. If anything, conversations surrounding head coach Jim Boeheim‚Äôs future…
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Syracuse Hoops May Lose Out On Judah Mintz
For just the third time in the Jim Boeheim era, Syracuse men’s basketball is spending mid-March at home without a postseason tournament to play for. This year, the team’s play kept it out of the tournament instead of NCAA sanctions, and we’ve all had to turn our attention to recruiting a bit earlier than usual.…
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Boeheim’s “Succession Plan” Comments Are Worth A Deeper Dive
With Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball‚Äôs 2021-22 regular season winding down, there‚Äôs not a lot of surprises left. SU knows which teams it‚Äôll face in the ACC tournament‚Äôs first two rounds, knows which of its players are now shut down for the year, and just how many games it needs to win to avoid head coach Jim…
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Benny Williams, Others Show Highly-Touted Freshmen Aren’t Instant Stars
Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is nearing the end of its 2021-22 season, and its upcoming final four regular season games will tell us quite a bit about the team. SU just barely scraped through a four-game stretch against ACC bottom feeders with a bad loss against Virginia Tech and a needlessly close 74-73 overtime win over…
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Can SU Seal The Deal With 4-Star Judah Mintz?
In the midst of what might be SU‚Äôs worst finish to a basketball season since the Nixon administration, there‚Äôs not a lot left for the Orange to do. Either SU can yank a couple upsets away from ACC rivals in the season‚Äôs waning weeks, or it can spend mid-March at home with no postseason tournament.…
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2023 Syracuse Wishlist: Gavin Griffiths
Welcome back to the wishlist, and hopefully a good omen into recruiting classes moving forward for Syracuse basketball. It’ll be hard to top the 2022 class but these players coming to Central New York can add a layer to the ’22 group that establishes the Orange as a clear threat moving forward. That starts and…
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Meet SU’s Next Potential Backcourt Star: Aden Holloway
It‚Äôs been a season to forget so far for Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball. The team is struggling in a variety of areas – particularly with its depth and defense – with no reinforcements on the way. The Orange have already lost nearly as many games this year (9) as they did all of last season (10)…
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Is SU Hoops Officially In Decline?
“Rome wasn’t built in a day” is a familiar refrain for any sports fan waiting for a program or team to get back to its feet. Emotional investment in a team involves a lot of waiting for that “Rome” to develop. In very rare instances like Syracuse men’s basketball, that sought-after prosperity and success is…
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Five Things We’ve Learned About SU Hoops At The Season’s Midpoint
After yesterday‚Äôs defeat against Wake Forest, Syracuse men‚Äôs basketball is officially halfway through its regular season. The team has played 15 games with 15 remaining, and enough time has passed to reflect on what we‚Äôve learned about this group through the first 50% of its schedule. We‚Äôve narrowed it down to five things we‚Äôve learned…
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2023 Syracuse Wishlist: Isaiah Miranda
Welcome to the Fizz wishlist, where we’ll introduce and break down players in the 2023 recruiting class that you should keep an eye on. Is it too early to look this far in the future? Well, the reason it’s not is because it’s never too early to take a gander around possible SU basketball commits…
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The World’s Most Famous Recruiting Showcase
Syracuse basketball fans have to be feeling themselves after two big wins to get back on track after a rough trip to Atlantis. A 2OT win over Indiana and a narrow and rare road win over Florida State have the pessimists rethinking some things. Jesse Edwards’ recent play likely has some recruiting pessimists stirring too.…
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The Recruiting Ripple Effects of Boeheim’s Richmond Remark
No program in the nation knows that recruiting reputation is a valuable and delicate thing better than Syracuse. The Orange went from household name and National Championship contender in 2013 to NIT loser four years later. Now, it seems like the recruiting stream is back on the up and up. Jim Boeheim called the Class…
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Syracuse’s 2022 Recruiting Timeline
The 2022 recruiting class deserves its own breakdown. From early commits and decommitments, to a wild last month, the talk around SU basketball is more about the future than the present. That’s for good reason. In February 2020, Dior Johnson, a five-star point guard, committed to the Orange in what many believed was too early…
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Syracuse Stays in the Mix for Maliq Brown
Yesterday was a tough result for SU as Syracuse native and four-star JJ Starling picked another ACC program nearly 600 miles away. It proved that allegiance based off proximity is a dying tactic in recruitment. But to highlight the bad is to overlook the good. Although the buzz continues to surround the now-Notre Dame point…
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What’s The Outlook On Chris Bunch and Chance Westry?
In case you missed it, Class of 2022 4-star guard JJ Starling committed to Notre Dame earlier this evening. Syracuse was among his final five teams. Instead, Starling is taking his talents to South Bend, and the Orange are dealt another blow for their Class of ‚Äò22 recruiting group that also saw Kamari Lands decommit…
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Syracuse Fans Need to Keep Tabs on Maliq Brown
This summer’s recruiting scene is on record as one of the most hectic in Syracuse basketball history. It all started last year when five-star point guard Dior Johnson committed to the Orange out of the blue. It was subsequently followed by a rather quick decommitment, which got the ball rolling. Kamari Lands replicated that act…
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After Carey’s Commitment, There’s Still a Missing Piece to the Class of 2022
Zero-star recruit Peter Carey might not be the big man that Syracuse fans dreamed of, but he’s the big man that they got. There’s a lot riding on Carey’s ability to anchor the Zone in the middle, and defy the scouting reports and small offer sheet. Now that Carey is in for 2022 with Quadir…
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Syracuse’s Center of Conversation is Peter Carey
It’s apparent what Syracuse fans continue to vie for: Joe Girard to revert to his stellar play in high school, a recruiting class without a decomitment and a center who elicits a cascade of cheers. SU is best at going 0-for-3 on that wishlist, and can never find a way to fulfill the third. With…
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Wow! Syracuse Offers Five Players
Syracuse’s annual Elite Camp took place this past weekend and didn’t disappoint. Out of the 19 attendees, five new offers were handed out. That doesn’t include SU commit Justin Taylor, or Peter Carey and Simeon Wilcher, who took part but already have offers from Syracuse. The five include DJ Wagner, Papa Kante, Joseph Estrella and…
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Kamari Lands’ Decommitment is a New Symptom of The NIL Era
Even those of you distracted by Syracuse‚Äôs confounding quarterback controversy couldn‚Äôt have missed what befell the Orange a little over a week ago. 4-star forward prospect Kamari Lands, perhaps the crowning jewel of Jim Boeheim‚Äôs 2022 recruiting class, decommitted from Syracuse after a four-month marriage. Now the entire structure of the class – filled with…
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Five Star Review 8/28: Chris Bunch, JJ Starling, Peter Carey
It’s this week’s edition of Five Star Review with Cameron Ezeir and Brad Klein. Will SU bring in any other these three recruits? We discuss that and how the recruiting scene and 2022 class is shaping out after the decommittment of Kamari Lands.
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The Syracuse-Kamari Lands Marriage Did Not Last Long… Now What?
In a summer full of good news, the ending took the worst of turns for Syracuse basketball. Four-star small forward Kamari Lands has decommited from Syracuse after picking the Orange in April. This is the third time in the last three years that a recruit ranked within ESPN’s top 25 has reversed his previous verbal…
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Is There Any Chance Syracuse Can Land… Chance Westry?
Prior to this summer, the recruiting scene was all guns a blazing at Syracuse. Now, the trail is starting to dissipate and for good reason. With a top 5 2022 recruiting class incoming, and three commits representing it, the plethora of talent still interested in SU starts to become an issue of too many cooks…
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Why is SU Hoops Suddenly a Recruiting Hotbed?
Alright, nobody is complaining, but it’s a fair question. Fresh off the heels of the ACC’s ninth best recruiting year in 2020, and then the 11th best recruiting pool in the conference in 2021, Syracuse basketball already reeled in three four-stars in 2022. That ranks second in the ACC with only North Carolina in front…
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Another One! Quadir Copeland Picks Syracuse
The culmination of a jam packed summer of recruiting resulted in yet another 2022 commit. Three-star Quadir Copeland chose Syracuse over Oklahoma State, Oregon, La Salle, DePaul, Miami, Maryland and Penn State. Copeland joins four-stars Kamari Lands and Justin Taylor in an already star-studded 2022 class for Jim Boeheim and company. SU’s three commits triples…
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FizzCast Exclusive: 2022 Syracuse Basketball Commit Justin Taylor
Cameron Ezeir is joined by the most recent addition to the 2022 Syracuse Basketball class, four-star Justin Taylor. The two discuss the reason Taylor chose SU, what he’s looking forward to in CNY and who he hopes to recruit to “build something special” at Syracuse.
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Fizz Nation, Is It Too Early To Look Ahead to 2023?
Hear me out. This upcoming season could be great for a mixed group of returning and new players into a program fresh off of a cinderella NCAA tournament run. 2021 Questions: How good is Benny Williams? Which version of Joe Girard will show up? How will the Boeheims gel? Can SU survive with a thin/unexperienced…
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Uh Oh Syracuse Fans… Here Comes Duke
The 2022 recruiting scene has been extra kind to Syracuse from the jump. The Orange were the fourth program to lock in two ESPN top 100 players (Kamari Lands – 24, Justin Taylor – 99), and have a few 247Sports crystal ball predictions on tap. But, it was only a matter of time until the…
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Syracuse Edition: Pick a Guard, Any Guard
The last piece to the puzzle of an already stout 2022 recruiting class is a point guard. SU commit Kamari Lands can man the power forward spot at 6‚Äô8‚Äù, but also dominate in a stretch 4 role with the ability to handle the ball beyond the perimeter. Recent Syracuse commit Justin Taylor has the height…
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This Is Why Copeland to Syracuse Looks Promising
In the successes of the 2022 recruiting class, with Kamari Lands and Justin Taylor, Boeheim and company are still searching for a prototypical guard to run the offense. Joe Girard III is the safe option as he‚Äôll be entering his fourth season, but Syracuse continues to sift through the pool of available recruits. Quadir Copeland…
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Syracuse Is Banking On Carey Being a Diamond In the Rough
Syracuse is in dire need of a big man for 2022 after Kyle Filipowski looks well on his way elsewhere and Donovan Clingan chose to stay local. Although the word ‚Äúdire‚Äù might seem like an over exaggeration, there‚Äôs not any current talent on the roster that can confidently fill that center role (unless you believe…
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An Introduction to Syracuse Recruit Chris Bunch
Is it possible to be too greedy when it comes to the 2022 recruiting class? In all fairness, Kamari Lands and recent commit Justin Taylor have already placed Syracuse into a top 5 recruiting class conversation. But, as seen by the downfall of Kentucky this past year with many top recruits, or even the struggles…
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