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Tyler Lydon, SU Class of 2015 Forward Can Shoot, Drive and Rebound (PS; Ditota)

Tyler Lydon split a column of defenders, dribbled into the lane with his left hand and dunked.

The crowd ringing the three bustling basketball courts at Life Center Academy here gasped. Lydon, who is 6-foot-9 and a reedy 200 pounds, played two scrimmage games with his AAU Albany City Rocks last Saturday. In the second game, his Albany team faced Team Final and Malachi Richardson, who will be a Syracuse teammate starting in 2015-16.
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Cameron Crazies

Syracuse Gets Duke Twice Again Next Season; UNC Twice in 2015-16 (PS; Ditota)

Syracuse's basketball team will play a heavy rotation of Duke and North Carolina over the next two seasons.

The ACC today announced its men's conference basketball schedules for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. Syracuse will play Duke home and away again next season; in 2015-16 it gets North Carolina twice.

Syracuse plays Duke just once in 2015-16; that game will take place in Cameron Indoor Stadium, meaning the Orange will play for three straight years in front of the Cameron Crazies.

The schedule breaks down like this every season: Syracuse will play home and away games vs. its two league 'rivals.' The Orange perennial rivals are Pittsburgh and Boston College.
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SU-Duke Rivalry Already Key Part of ACC Basketball (Seven Thoughts on ACC Schedule) (PS; Stevens)
The ACC released its two-year league basketball schedule rotation on Tuesday. Among the noteworthy takeaways:

1. The ACC is going to milk Duke-Syracuse for everything it's worth. Maybe the first thing that stands out about the 2014-15 conference schedule is that Duke and Syracuse will have another home-and-home.

Why does it stand out? Each team has two permanent partners (Syracuse's are Boston College and Pittsburgh) and two partners that are supposed to rotate. Duke-Syracuse is the only rotating series with home-and-homes twice in the first three years of the ACC's 15-team era.

If the ACC were to argue that's simply how the cookie crumbled, take a look at all the home-onlys and road-onlys from last year simply reversing sites. This model is based heavily on the 2013-14 schedule.

JB Might Be the Only One Displeased with Seeing Duke Twice on the Schedule (PS; Poliquin)

It turns out that Jim Boeheim has a smidge of Cal Stoll in him. And it's a smidge that was not well served today by the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Understand that Boeheim, the Syracuse University coach, greatly admires the Duke Blue Devils. And he's fully aware that this past season's two games between his Orange club and Mike Krzyzewski's bunch were boffo in every way.

But …

"Playing Duke home-and-home every year," he said during a late-winter conversation in his office, "wouldn't be fair."
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Nina Davuluri (Miss America) and Friends

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Etan Thomas and 'No No No' Mutombo


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The Prez and Etan Thomas

Etan Thomas Plays Basketball with President Obama to Annual Easter Egg Roll (PS; Carlson)

Former Syracuse basketball player Etan Thomas appears to have had himself quite an entertaining Easter.

The former Orange star and nine-year NBA veteran played basketball with President Obama at the Easter Egg Roll on Monday, held annually at the White House.

Thomas was part of a guest list that included Miss America Nina Davuluri, former Syracuse defensive end Dwight Freeney, Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, former Georgetown center Dikembe Mutombo, actor Jim Carrey and Sesame Street's Cookie Monster.
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Shameless Plug for SU Tubas

SU Sells 1100 Tickets to See Yankees for SU Day (DO; Strange)

Although tickets for Syracuse University Day at Yankee Stadium are on sale until May 30, about 1,100 of the 1,800 tickets for the event have already been sold.

Members of the SU community can purchase discounted tickets to see the New York Yankees play at SU Day at Yankee Stadium, which has been organized by the SU Alumni Association for the past four years. The Lubin House, SU’s alumni house in Manhattan, is also helping to organize the event.

This year, the game is on June 21 at 1:05 p.m. against the Baltimore Orioles.
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Syracuse heavily represented at the White House for Easter! I love Etan Thomas. I had a nice conversation with him in line at Tops the year he graduated. Friendly, sweet smile.
 
That alleged picture of "Cameron Crazies"... seems to feature a lot of people in UNC blue.
 
That alleged picture of "Cameron Crazies"... seems to feature a lot of people in UNC blue.
That's what I thought! Those were no damn Crazies! They would die rather than wear Carolina blue.
 

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