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Welcome to World Brain Tumor Day!
World Brain Tumor Day is an international commemoration day observed on June 8 every year. The day aims to raise awareness about brain tumor and to educate people about the signs and symptoms of the disease. It is aims to provide support to those who are affected by brain tumors. World Brain Tumor Day 2023: History World Brain Tumor Day was first started in 2000 by the German Brain Tumor Association.
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Syracuse guard Judah Mintz (3) reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Georgia Tech in Syracuse, N.Y., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
When is the last time Syracuse put 4 Top 50 recruits on the court? (PS; $; Waters)
This week’s Mike’s Mailbox is all about the phrase “first time since.’’
We found out that next season the Syracuse Orange has a chance to do something in terms of its lineup that it hasn’t done since 2016. The chance to do something else involving the Top 25 rankings for the first time since 2018. And the Orange will have two players of a certain height for the first time ever.
Want the answers? Let’s get to those questions.
Q: When Judah Mintz, JJ Starling, Chance Westry and Benny Williams play together, will it be the first time Syracuse has put four Top 50 high school recruits on the floor at the same time?
Bill F.
Mike: Syracuse will have quite a collection of players who were among the top-rated recruits in their respective classes on the court at the same time next season.
Junior forward Benny Williams was rated as the No. 32 player in the 2021 recruiting class by ESPN.com.
Sophomores JJ Starling, Judah Mintz and Chance Westry were ranked 19th, 36th and 39th, respectively, in the ‘22 class.
Syracuse hasn’t had four Top 50 prospects on the court together since the 2015-16 season, but before then it happened quite regularly.
The 2016 Final Four team included Dajuan Coleman (No. 14 in 2012), Tyler Roberson (No. 31 in 2013), Malachi Richardson (No. 24 in 2015) and Michael Gbinije (No. 29 in 2011). Gbinije, of course, began his career at Duke before transferring to Syracuse.
The 2015-16 season was the fifth-straight year Syracuse had four Top 50 recruits together.
In 2015, Syracuse could put Roberson, Gbinije, Chris McCullough (No. 24 in 2014 class) and Rakeem Christmas (No. 20 in 2011) on the court. Coleman redshirted that season due to an injury or it might have been five Top 50 recruits playing together.
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Syracuse Basketball: Which 2023-24 opponents are in preseason top 25? (itlh; Adler)
Even with the return of point guard Judah Mintz for his sophomore season, a huge development for Syracuse basketball, the Orange isn’t making the cut for super early preseason top-25 rankings as well as way-too-early mock fields of 68 for the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
All good. I like it when the ‘Cuse flies under the radar a bit (hi, 2002-03). When the 6-foot-3 Mintz revealed a few days ago that he would withdraw his name from the 2023 NBA Draft and come back to the Hill for the 2023-24 campaign, that set the Orange’s roster at 13 scholarship players, and it’s an athletic and versatile roster for sure.
That being said, two of the team’s top-three scorers from a stanza ago, senior center Jesse Edwards and senior shooting guard Joe Girard III, have transferred to West Virginia and Clemson, respectively.
Over the past two seasons, the ‘Cuse has sported a sub-par 33-32 overall record, and it has missed the Big Dance in both campaigns. New head coach Adrian Autry and his assistants have done a great job on the recruiting trail in recent months.
Autry has said that he wants to return Syracuse basketball to its “standards” as a program – that is, winning 20 or more games every year, competing for Atlantic Coast Conference titles and not having to sweat out Selection Sundays.
All of that sounds wonderful, and I believe Autry can get his team there – but it’s no surprise to me that the Orange, at present, isn’t getting preseason love from national pundits.
But what about Syracuse basketball opponents in 2023-24?
The ‘Cuse non-conference slate in the upcoming season is starting to come together, but this 11-game docket isn’t fully known. What’s more, we don’t know the exact details of the team’s 20-contest ACC calendar.
...
Syracuse basketball 4-star PG recruit, nears 5 stars, heads to super league (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball 2025 four-star recruiting target Jerry Easter II from Ohio, who has been sensational on the AAU circuit this spring and is nearing five-star status, will transfer to the country’s most prestigious high-school hoops league.
The 6-foot-4 point guard, an All-American as a freshman and a sophomore in high school, will transfer for his junior year to the La Lumiere School in La Porte, Ind., according to a social media post.
La Lumiere is a member of the prestigious National Interscholastic Basketball Conference (“NIBC”), a 10-team league that includes some of the nation’s top independent basketball academies and prep-school squads.
Syracuse basketball rising sophomore J.J. Starling, a transfer guard from Notre Dame, suited up for La Lumiere prior to joining the Fighting Irish.
In the 2023-24 campaign, Easter will transfer to the Lakers from the Emmanuel Christian School in Toledo, Ohio, where he earned both freshman and sophomore All-America honors from MaxPreps. A huge congrats to Jerry on his upcoming move to La Lumiere!
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30 Minutes in Orange Nation (ESPN; radio; Orange Nation)
Paulie and Steve open the show discussing if fans should be upset that Syracuse is not being included in any Preseason Top 25 lists. They then talk about what the expectations for this team should be in the non-conference portion of the schedule. Lastly, the show falls completely off the rails when Paulie poses a hypothetical question about how long he could put Steve in a wrestling move (we promise that actually kinda happens).
Mike McAllister "Orange Nation" 6-7-23 (youtube; radio; Orange Nation)
Mike McAllister "Orange Nation" 6-7-23 Mike shares his thoughts on the impact of Judah Mintz returning...
With Jim Boeheim retired, can zone defense still work in college basketball? (theathletic.com; $; Moore)
Jim Boeheim might have coached more possessions of zone defense than any coach in college basketball history. The 2-3 zone helped win him a national championship in 2003 and reach four other Final Fours during a 47-year run as the head coach at Syracuse. So when Boeheim is asked what defense would he run if he had to start a new program in 2023, his answer may come as a surprise.
“Man-to-man,” he says before the question is even finished being asked. “Just too many good shooters. Too many coaches that know how to attack zones. I would try to play almost 90 percent man, but I’d like to have a good enough zone to play 10-20 percent.”
Boeheim didn’t believe he had the personnel to have success playing man in recent years, but the floor spacing in the modern game made him at least contemplate making the switch. Since the men’s NCAA 3-point line moved back before the start of the 2019-20 season, it has changed the geometry of the floor. When the Orange won the NCAA Tournament in 2003, most teams had one or two shooters on the floor and space was limited inside the line. Boeheim says he could scheme to take away one or two shooters. Now teams take more 3s and put more shooters on the floor.
“Coaches allow players to shoot further out,” Baylor coach Scott Drew says. “That’s made it harder to zone as well, because usually you’re open from 25 (feet).”
Drew used to lean a lot on the zone but went away from it in 2019-20, adopting the no-middle, man-to-man defense as his primary attack. The next year, he won a national championship with the Bears.
The analytics have gone in the wrong direction for the Orange over the last four seasons, when their average finish in adjusted defensive efficiency was No. 146, according to KenPom.com. The fade happened fast. From 2010-2016, the Orange posted an average adjusted defense finish inside the top 15 nationally. But Syracuse’s defense the past two seasons were the worst of Boeheim’s career, and the end of the regular season was a prime example for how the math is simply working against the zone. Syracuse had a four-game stretch when opponents made 61 3-pointers at a 42.7 percent clip, and the Orange allowed 1.36 points per possession.
Syracuse's adjusted defensive efficiency
Some of the slippage happened because of personnel. “It wasn’t as good because we were slow,” Boeheim says. “We didn’t have good team speed. But if you don’t have good team speed in man-to-man, you’re in the same boat. It really wasn’t the zone; it was just the people in the zone.”
...
Other
Some of the best hoops in CNY this summer will be played in a small church gym in Camillus (PS; $; Carlson)
Many of the biggest and baddest basketball players Central New York has produced in recent years gathered to play in a church gymnasium on Tuesday, surrounded by banners celebrating CYO championships and stickers of bumblebees and frogs, firetrucks and race cars.
They talked trash in a venue where reminders to be kind to each filled the walls. Tall men threw down high-flying dunks in a building where stepstools are in place to ensure pre-schoolers can reach the urinals.
The Elite Basketball Club began its 10th season on Tuesday with a standing-room only crowd of nearly 220 people filling the gym in the St. Joseph’s Church parish in Camillus (5600 Genesee Street). The 10-team summer league features rosters dotted with homegrown college players and international professionals.
Of the 105 players who were rostered heading into the start of the summer session, 97 had played either collegiately or professionally.
...
Matt Rife attends Sony Pictures' "The Machine" Los Angeles premiere at Regency Village Theatre on May 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage)
Matt Rife adds comedy shows in Syracuse, Schenectady due to high demand (PS; Herbert)
Matt Rife is adding more shows in Upstate New York due to high demand for his “ProbleMATTic World Tour.”
The viral TikTok comedian announced Tuesday that he’ll perform a second show Saturday, March 30, 2024, at 10 p.m. at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse. That’s in addition to a previously announced performance at 7 p.m. on the same date.
Rife also added three shows at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, where he’ll perform on Jan. 31, 2024, and Feb. 1, 2024, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. That’s in addition to four shows scheduled Thursday & Friday, March 28-29, 2024, at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at the del Lago Resort & Casino in Waterloo.
Tickets for the shows in Schenectady and Syracuse go on sale to the general public Friday, June 9, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. Tickets for the del Lago performances will be available through dellagoresort.showare.com.
Rife said Tuesday fans could access a presale with special code “MATTIX.”
Rife, who has 12 million followers on TikTok, has quickly become a wildly popular comedian after first rising to fame on MTV’s “Wild ‘N Out” and grew a huge fanbase on social media. His film and TV credits also include “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Fresh Off the Boat,” “Burb Patrol,” and the upcoming thriller “Trapped Inn.”
...
World Brain Tumor Day is an international commemoration day observed on June 8 every year. The day aims to raise awareness about brain tumor and to educate people about the signs and symptoms of the disease. It is aims to provide support to those who are affected by brain tumors. World Brain Tumor Day 2023: History World Brain Tumor Day was first started in 2000 by the German Brain Tumor Association.
SU News
Syracuse guard Judah Mintz (3) reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Georgia Tech in Syracuse, N.Y., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
When is the last time Syracuse put 4 Top 50 recruits on the court? (PS; $; Waters)
This week’s Mike’s Mailbox is all about the phrase “first time since.’’
We found out that next season the Syracuse Orange has a chance to do something in terms of its lineup that it hasn’t done since 2016. The chance to do something else involving the Top 25 rankings for the first time since 2018. And the Orange will have two players of a certain height for the first time ever.
Want the answers? Let’s get to those questions.
Q: When Judah Mintz, JJ Starling, Chance Westry and Benny Williams play together, will it be the first time Syracuse has put four Top 50 high school recruits on the floor at the same time?
Bill F.
Mike: Syracuse will have quite a collection of players who were among the top-rated recruits in their respective classes on the court at the same time next season.
Junior forward Benny Williams was rated as the No. 32 player in the 2021 recruiting class by ESPN.com.
Sophomores JJ Starling, Judah Mintz and Chance Westry were ranked 19th, 36th and 39th, respectively, in the ‘22 class.
Syracuse hasn’t had four Top 50 prospects on the court together since the 2015-16 season, but before then it happened quite regularly.
The 2016 Final Four team included Dajuan Coleman (No. 14 in 2012), Tyler Roberson (No. 31 in 2013), Malachi Richardson (No. 24 in 2015) and Michael Gbinije (No. 29 in 2011). Gbinije, of course, began his career at Duke before transferring to Syracuse.
The 2015-16 season was the fifth-straight year Syracuse had four Top 50 recruits together.
In 2015, Syracuse could put Roberson, Gbinije, Chris McCullough (No. 24 in 2014 class) and Rakeem Christmas (No. 20 in 2011) on the court. Coleman redshirted that season due to an injury or it might have been five Top 50 recruits playing together.
...
Syracuse Basketball: Which 2023-24 opponents are in preseason top 25? (itlh; Adler)
Even with the return of point guard Judah Mintz for his sophomore season, a huge development for Syracuse basketball, the Orange isn’t making the cut for super early preseason top-25 rankings as well as way-too-early mock fields of 68 for the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
All good. I like it when the ‘Cuse flies under the radar a bit (hi, 2002-03). When the 6-foot-3 Mintz revealed a few days ago that he would withdraw his name from the 2023 NBA Draft and come back to the Hill for the 2023-24 campaign, that set the Orange’s roster at 13 scholarship players, and it’s an athletic and versatile roster for sure.
That being said, two of the team’s top-three scorers from a stanza ago, senior center Jesse Edwards and senior shooting guard Joe Girard III, have transferred to West Virginia and Clemson, respectively.
Over the past two seasons, the ‘Cuse has sported a sub-par 33-32 overall record, and it has missed the Big Dance in both campaigns. New head coach Adrian Autry and his assistants have done a great job on the recruiting trail in recent months.
Autry has said that he wants to return Syracuse basketball to its “standards” as a program – that is, winning 20 or more games every year, competing for Atlantic Coast Conference titles and not having to sweat out Selection Sundays.
All of that sounds wonderful, and I believe Autry can get his team there – but it’s no surprise to me that the Orange, at present, isn’t getting preseason love from national pundits.
But what about Syracuse basketball opponents in 2023-24?
The ‘Cuse non-conference slate in the upcoming season is starting to come together, but this 11-game docket isn’t fully known. What’s more, we don’t know the exact details of the team’s 20-contest ACC calendar.
...
Syracuse basketball 4-star PG recruit, nears 5 stars, heads to super league (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball 2025 four-star recruiting target Jerry Easter II from Ohio, who has been sensational on the AAU circuit this spring and is nearing five-star status, will transfer to the country’s most prestigious high-school hoops league.
The 6-foot-4 point guard, an All-American as a freshman and a sophomore in high school, will transfer for his junior year to the La Lumiere School in La Porte, Ind., according to a social media post.
La Lumiere is a member of the prestigious National Interscholastic Basketball Conference (“NIBC”), a 10-team league that includes some of the nation’s top independent basketball academies and prep-school squads.
Syracuse basketball rising sophomore J.J. Starling, a transfer guard from Notre Dame, suited up for La Lumiere prior to joining the Fighting Irish.
In the 2023-24 campaign, Easter will transfer to the Lakers from the Emmanuel Christian School in Toledo, Ohio, where he earned both freshman and sophomore All-America honors from MaxPreps. A huge congrats to Jerry on his upcoming move to La Lumiere!
...
30 Minutes in Orange Nation (ESPN; radio; Orange Nation)
Paulie and Steve open the show discussing if fans should be upset that Syracuse is not being included in any Preseason Top 25 lists. They then talk about what the expectations for this team should be in the non-conference portion of the schedule. Lastly, the show falls completely off the rails when Paulie poses a hypothetical question about how long he could put Steve in a wrestling move (we promise that actually kinda happens).
Mike McAllister "Orange Nation" 6-7-23 (youtube; radio; Orange Nation)
Mike McAllister "Orange Nation" 6-7-23 Mike shares his thoughts on the impact of Judah Mintz returning...
With Jim Boeheim retired, can zone defense still work in college basketball? (theathletic.com; $; Moore)
Jim Boeheim might have coached more possessions of zone defense than any coach in college basketball history. The 2-3 zone helped win him a national championship in 2003 and reach four other Final Fours during a 47-year run as the head coach at Syracuse. So when Boeheim is asked what defense would he run if he had to start a new program in 2023, his answer may come as a surprise.
“Man-to-man,” he says before the question is even finished being asked. “Just too many good shooters. Too many coaches that know how to attack zones. I would try to play almost 90 percent man, but I’d like to have a good enough zone to play 10-20 percent.”
Boeheim didn’t believe he had the personnel to have success playing man in recent years, but the floor spacing in the modern game made him at least contemplate making the switch. Since the men’s NCAA 3-point line moved back before the start of the 2019-20 season, it has changed the geometry of the floor. When the Orange won the NCAA Tournament in 2003, most teams had one or two shooters on the floor and space was limited inside the line. Boeheim says he could scheme to take away one or two shooters. Now teams take more 3s and put more shooters on the floor.
“Coaches allow players to shoot further out,” Baylor coach Scott Drew says. “That’s made it harder to zone as well, because usually you’re open from 25 (feet).”
Drew used to lean a lot on the zone but went away from it in 2019-20, adopting the no-middle, man-to-man defense as his primary attack. The next year, he won a national championship with the Bears.
The analytics have gone in the wrong direction for the Orange over the last four seasons, when their average finish in adjusted defensive efficiency was No. 146, according to KenPom.com. The fade happened fast. From 2010-2016, the Orange posted an average adjusted defense finish inside the top 15 nationally. But Syracuse’s defense the past two seasons were the worst of Boeheim’s career, and the end of the regular season was a prime example for how the math is simply working against the zone. Syracuse had a four-game stretch when opponents made 61 3-pointers at a 42.7 percent clip, and the Orange allowed 1.36 points per possession.
Syracuse's adjusted defensive efficiency
| YEAR | KENPOM RANK |
|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 185 |
| 2021-22 | 207 |
| 2020-21 | 77 |
| 2019-20 | 116 |
| 2018-19 | 30 |
| 2017-18 | 5 |
Some of the slippage happened because of personnel. “It wasn’t as good because we were slow,” Boeheim says. “We didn’t have good team speed. But if you don’t have good team speed in man-to-man, you’re in the same boat. It really wasn’t the zone; it was just the people in the zone.”
...
Other
Some of the best hoops in CNY this summer will be played in a small church gym in Camillus (PS; $; Carlson)
Many of the biggest and baddest basketball players Central New York has produced in recent years gathered to play in a church gymnasium on Tuesday, surrounded by banners celebrating CYO championships and stickers of bumblebees and frogs, firetrucks and race cars.
They talked trash in a venue where reminders to be kind to each filled the walls. Tall men threw down high-flying dunks in a building where stepstools are in place to ensure pre-schoolers can reach the urinals.
The Elite Basketball Club began its 10th season on Tuesday with a standing-room only crowd of nearly 220 people filling the gym in the St. Joseph’s Church parish in Camillus (5600 Genesee Street). The 10-team summer league features rosters dotted with homegrown college players and international professionals.
Of the 105 players who were rostered heading into the start of the summer session, 97 had played either collegiately or professionally.
...
Matt Rife attends Sony Pictures' "The Machine" Los Angeles premiere at Regency Village Theatre on May 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage)
Matt Rife adds comedy shows in Syracuse, Schenectady due to high demand (PS; Herbert)
Matt Rife is adding more shows in Upstate New York due to high demand for his “ProbleMATTic World Tour.”
The viral TikTok comedian announced Tuesday that he’ll perform a second show Saturday, March 30, 2024, at 10 p.m. at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse. That’s in addition to a previously announced performance at 7 p.m. on the same date.
Rife also added three shows at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, where he’ll perform on Jan. 31, 2024, and Feb. 1, 2024, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. That’s in addition to four shows scheduled Thursday & Friday, March 28-29, 2024, at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at the del Lago Resort & Casino in Waterloo.
Tickets for the shows in Schenectady and Syracuse go on sale to the general public Friday, June 9, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. Tickets for the del Lago performances will be available through dellagoresort.showare.com.
Rife said Tuesday fans could access a presale with special code “MATTIX.”
Rife, who has 12 million followers on TikTok, has quickly become a wildly popular comedian after first rising to fame on MTV’s “Wild ‘N Out” and grew a huge fanbase on social media. His film and TV credits also include “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Fresh Off the Boat,” “Burb Patrol,” and the upcoming thriller “Trapped Inn.”
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