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Carter Sanderson
SU Hoops Adds Three Walk-Ons to Roster for 2014-15 (TNIAAM; Keeley)
You can never have too much depth in college basketball, and the Syracuse Orange are continuing to add to theirs as the season is coming just around the corner.
The Orange have added three walk-ons to the roster to go along with their pool of scholarship players. SU added big man Doyin Akintobi-Adeyeye to their roster, confirmed to the Daily Orange earlier Tuesday by the team, while also adding two guards.
Akintobi-Adeyeye, a 6'6" sophomore from Uniondale, N.Y., went out for the team last season, but with their front court depth, the Orange felt no need for him on the roster. This year, with Baye Moussa-Keita graduated and the long-awaited return of DaJuan Coleman still up in the air, head coach Jim Boeheim brought in Akintobi-Adeyeye for insurance. According to the Daily Orange report, the Orange worked out the 235-pound center with Rakeem Christmas and Chinoso Obokoh, and was on the team "two minutes later" according to Boeheim.
Akintobi-Adeyeye, who graduated from Uniondale High School in 2013, was ranked 4,565th nationally and 171st in New York according to MaxPreps. With injuries and lack of front court depth, it is possible he could find his way into some sort of role with the squad.
Carter Sanderson, a 6'2' guard from Nashville, Tenn. is in the midst of his first year on Syracuse's campus, pursuing a graduate degree at the S.I. Newhouse School after wrapping up his undergrad degree at Lipscomb University, After redshirting his first year, Sanderson played three years with the Bisons, being coached by his dad Scott. His grandfather, Wimp, was a long-time college basketball coach at both the University of Arkansas-Little Rock and University of Alabama, accumulating a total of 529 wins.
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Walk-On Akintobi-Adeyeye Quickly Impressed Boeheim, Works with Christmas, Obokoh (DO; Klinger)
Last week, Doyin Akintobi-Adeyeye worked out in front of Jim Boeheim and the Syracuse coaching staff. Moments later, he was the Orange’s newest player.
“He came and worked out and we saw him do a couple things and two minutes later he was on the team,” Boeheim said.
Akintobi-Adeyeye, a walk-on sophomore center, impressed with his physical play, Boeheim said. The 6-foot-6, 235-pound Uniondale (New York) High School graduate joins the team with former McDonald’s All-American junior center DaJuan Coleman out with a knee injury. In September, Boeheim said he wasn’t sure when Coleman would return.
Akintobi-Adeyeye continues to work with big men Rakeem Christmas and Chinonso Obokoh in practice, Boeheim said.
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Former Players
Welcome Back Night at Carrier Dome (DO; Klinger)
While Carmelo Anthony ran the Carrier Dome floor, all Michael Carter-Williams and Jerami Grant could do was watch.
Two of Syracuse’s most recent NBA exports — now teammates on the Philadelphia 76ers — ended a day that was mostly about recovering and remembering, as spectators. They wore suit jackets on the same bench where they each mostly sat for one year before starring for another then leaving Syracuse for the NBA.
“That year I learned a lot more about basketball than I have in my whole life,” Carter-Williams said.
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Carter Sanderson
SU Hoops Adds Three Walk-Ons to Roster for 2014-15 (TNIAAM; Keeley)
You can never have too much depth in college basketball, and the Syracuse Orange are continuing to add to theirs as the season is coming just around the corner.
The Orange have added three walk-ons to the roster to go along with their pool of scholarship players. SU added big man Doyin Akintobi-Adeyeye to their roster, confirmed to the Daily Orange earlier Tuesday by the team, while also adding two guards.
Akintobi-Adeyeye, a 6'6" sophomore from Uniondale, N.Y., went out for the team last season, but with their front court depth, the Orange felt no need for him on the roster. This year, with Baye Moussa-Keita graduated and the long-awaited return of DaJuan Coleman still up in the air, head coach Jim Boeheim brought in Akintobi-Adeyeye for insurance. According to the Daily Orange report, the Orange worked out the 235-pound center with Rakeem Christmas and Chinoso Obokoh, and was on the team "two minutes later" according to Boeheim.
Akintobi-Adeyeye, who graduated from Uniondale High School in 2013, was ranked 4,565th nationally and 171st in New York according to MaxPreps. With injuries and lack of front court depth, it is possible he could find his way into some sort of role with the squad.
Carter Sanderson, a 6'2' guard from Nashville, Tenn. is in the midst of his first year on Syracuse's campus, pursuing a graduate degree at the S.I. Newhouse School after wrapping up his undergrad degree at Lipscomb University, After redshirting his first year, Sanderson played three years with the Bisons, being coached by his dad Scott. His grandfather, Wimp, was a long-time college basketball coach at both the University of Arkansas-Little Rock and University of Alabama, accumulating a total of 529 wins.
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Walk-On Akintobi-Adeyeye Quickly Impressed Boeheim, Works with Christmas, Obokoh (DO; Klinger)
Last week, Doyin Akintobi-Adeyeye worked out in front of Jim Boeheim and the Syracuse coaching staff. Moments later, he was the Orange’s newest player.
“He came and worked out and we saw him do a couple things and two minutes later he was on the team,” Boeheim said.
Akintobi-Adeyeye, a walk-on sophomore center, impressed with his physical play, Boeheim said. The 6-foot-6, 235-pound Uniondale (New York) High School graduate joins the team with former McDonald’s All-American junior center DaJuan Coleman out with a knee injury. In September, Boeheim said he wasn’t sure when Coleman would return.
Akintobi-Adeyeye continues to work with big men Rakeem Christmas and Chinonso Obokoh in practice, Boeheim said.
...
Former Players
Welcome Back Night at Carrier Dome (DO; Klinger)
While Carmelo Anthony ran the Carrier Dome floor, all Michael Carter-Williams and Jerami Grant could do was watch.
Two of Syracuse’s most recent NBA exports — now teammates on the Philadelphia 76ers — ended a day that was mostly about recovering and remembering, as spectators. They wore suit jackets on the same bench where they each mostly sat for one year before starring for another then leaving Syracuse for the NBA.
“That year I learned a lot more about basketball than I have in my whole life,” Carter-Williams said.
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