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Quinton Rose, Kodye Pugh among Class of 2016 prospects at Syracuse Elite camp (PS; Ditota)
Plenty of interesting young athletes spent time in Syracuse Wednesday afternoon at the Syracuse Elite basketball camp.
We've reported at syracuse.com about recent Orange offers to Class of 2016 prospects Harry Giles, Sedee Keita and Matthew Moyer.
Orange coaches are still recruiting Thomas Bryant from the Class of 2015. SU, too, continues to be involved with Tyus Battle, one of prized guards in the Class of 2016. Battle, who plays at Gill St. Bernard's in New Jersey, has made previous visits to Syracuse and was in the Carrier Dome for the SU vs. Duke game last winter. Battle is now playing on USA Basketball's U17 team competing in Dubai.
An observer at Wednesday's camp mentioned the performances of Moyer, Quinton Rose, a 6-foot-5 guard from Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester; and Kodye Pugh, a 6-8 wing forward from Baltimore.
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Syracuse recruiting target Sedee Keita, who attended SU's elite camp, grows into major prospect (PS; Waters)
Terrell Myers still has a pair of the size 10 sneakers in his garage.
Three years ago, Sedee Keita, then just an eighth-grader, would come over to Myers' house and mow the lawn.
"He was about 6 feet tall,'' Myers, who has coached Keita on the AAU level for the past several years, said. "He was a good kid, but I never thought he'd be much of a player.''
Keita has no need for those size 10 sneakers in Myers' garage these days. Keita now stands 6-foot-9. He weighs 225 pounds. And he wears size 16 shoes.
On Wednesday, Keita, a top 50 prospect in the Class of 2016, attended Syracuse University's Elite Camp along with several of his WeR1 AAU teammates. Myers said Syracuse has offered a scholarship to the late-blooming big man.
"He was 6-foot three years ago,'' Myers said Thursday. "A year later, he was 6-3. Another year, he was 6-6 and now he's 6-9. He's grown three inches a year for the past three years. He's gone from being a guard to a 6-9 forward.''
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Michael Carter-Williams, his stepdad and twin brothers in tow, visits Syracuse Elite camp (PS; Ditota)
Mandy Carter-Zegarowski described the trip as "last minute."
Her husband, Zach Zegarowski, loaded their twin sons into a car for the trip from New England to Syracuse to participate in Wednesday's Syracuse Elite basketball camp. Marcus and Max Zegarowski turned 16 this month; their big brother, Michael Carter-Williams, traveled with them in a separate car.
MCW and Pugh
The family spent the day at the Melo Center. The twins participated in a camp designed to show prospects the Syracuse facilities and better acquaint them with Syracuse coaches and players.
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ACC basketball nonconference schedule assessment: Pittsburgh's formula tweaks are an improvement (PS; Stevens)
As surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Pittsburgh's basketball program is going to follow its successful blueprint year after year after year.
College basketball aficionados know that means an emphasis on quality evaluations and subsequent player development, which are the foundation of the Panthers' success under Jamie Dixon. But it also extends to Pitt's formulaic nonconference schedule.
The Panthers play crosstown rival Duquesne in a neutral site game. They play in an exempt tournament, often in New York. They might mix in a true road game as part of a conference challenge event. And they play a lot of home games. Take out the New York part, and that basically sums up Pitt's nonconference tests this year, too.
Syracuse's B.J. Johnson will miss final game on European tour with hurt ankle (PS; Waters)
Syracuse's B.J. Johnson will sit out today's final game of the USA East Coast All-Star team's European tour.
The Estonian National Team defeated the USA East Coast All-Stars 77-65. It was the third and final game in the Four Nations Cup.
On Thursday, the USA East Coast coaches and players left Estonia and traveled to Helsinki, Finland, via ferry. The team will play the Helsinki Seagulls, a Finish pro team, on Thursday before returning to the United States on Friday.
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Quinton Rose, Kodye Pugh among Class of 2016 prospects at Syracuse Elite camp (PS; Ditota)
Plenty of interesting young athletes spent time in Syracuse Wednesday afternoon at the Syracuse Elite basketball camp.
We've reported at syracuse.com about recent Orange offers to Class of 2016 prospects Harry Giles, Sedee Keita and Matthew Moyer.
Orange coaches are still recruiting Thomas Bryant from the Class of 2015. SU, too, continues to be involved with Tyus Battle, one of prized guards in the Class of 2016. Battle, who plays at Gill St. Bernard's in New Jersey, has made previous visits to Syracuse and was in the Carrier Dome for the SU vs. Duke game last winter. Battle is now playing on USA Basketball's U17 team competing in Dubai.
An observer at Wednesday's camp mentioned the performances of Moyer, Quinton Rose, a 6-foot-5 guard from Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester; and Kodye Pugh, a 6-8 wing forward from Baltimore.
...
Syracuse recruiting target Sedee Keita, who attended SU's elite camp, grows into major prospect (PS; Waters)
Terrell Myers still has a pair of the size 10 sneakers in his garage.
Three years ago, Sedee Keita, then just an eighth-grader, would come over to Myers' house and mow the lawn.
"He was about 6 feet tall,'' Myers, who has coached Keita on the AAU level for the past several years, said. "He was a good kid, but I never thought he'd be much of a player.''
Keita has no need for those size 10 sneakers in Myers' garage these days. Keita now stands 6-foot-9. He weighs 225 pounds. And he wears size 16 shoes.
On Wednesday, Keita, a top 50 prospect in the Class of 2016, attended Syracuse University's Elite Camp along with several of his WeR1 AAU teammates. Myers said Syracuse has offered a scholarship to the late-blooming big man.
"He was 6-foot three years ago,'' Myers said Thursday. "A year later, he was 6-3. Another year, he was 6-6 and now he's 6-9. He's grown three inches a year for the past three years. He's gone from being a guard to a 6-9 forward.''
...
Michael Carter-Williams, his stepdad and twin brothers in tow, visits Syracuse Elite camp (PS; Ditota)
Mandy Carter-Zegarowski described the trip as "last minute."
Her husband, Zach Zegarowski, loaded their twin sons into a car for the trip from New England to Syracuse to participate in Wednesday's Syracuse Elite basketball camp. Marcus and Max Zegarowski turned 16 this month; their big brother, Michael Carter-Williams, traveled with them in a separate car.
MCW and Pugh
The family spent the day at the Melo Center. The twins participated in a camp designed to show prospects the Syracuse facilities and better acquaint them with Syracuse coaches and players.
...
ACC basketball nonconference schedule assessment: Pittsburgh's formula tweaks are an improvement (PS; Stevens)
As surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Pittsburgh's basketball program is going to follow its successful blueprint year after year after year.
College basketball aficionados know that means an emphasis on quality evaluations and subsequent player development, which are the foundation of the Panthers' success under Jamie Dixon. But it also extends to Pitt's formulaic nonconference schedule.
The Panthers play crosstown rival Duquesne in a neutral site game. They play in an exempt tournament, often in New York. They might mix in a true road game as part of a conference challenge event. And they play a lot of home games. Take out the New York part, and that basically sums up Pitt's nonconference tests this year, too.
Syracuse's B.J. Johnson will miss final game on European tour with hurt ankle (PS; Waters)
Syracuse's B.J. Johnson will sit out today's final game of the USA East Coast All-Star team's European tour.
The Estonian National Team defeated the USA East Coast All-Stars 77-65. It was the third and final game in the Four Nations Cup.
On Thursday, the USA East Coast coaches and players left Estonia and traveled to Helsinki, Finland, via ferry. The team will play the Helsinki Seagulls, a Finish pro team, on Thursday before returning to the United States on Friday.
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