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Welcome to World Sea Turtle Day!
World Sea Turtle Day, June 16, is a day used to honor and highlight the importance of sea turtles. These creatures, like any other creature, are magnificent in their own way. Not only are sea turtles beautiful animals, but they also show incredible perseverance and resiliency– after all, they have been nesting on beaches for millions of years. So of course they deserve their own day dedicated to their awesomeness!
SU News
Jim Boeheim embraces new role this summer (cnycentral.com)
Jim Boeheim is expanding his role with USA Basketball, now serving as the chair of the USA Basketball Men's Junior National Team Committee.
The Syracuse coach is the man in charge of the U18 national team, which is currently trying out 26 players for 12 spots in the 2016 FIBA Americas U18 Championship to be held in Valdivia, Chile from July 19-23. The team is coached by Texas coach Shaka Smart, with Connecticut's Kevin Ollie and Maryland's Mark Turgeon serving as assistants.
"It's always fun to get those young guys ready," said Boeheim at the 9th annual Jim Boeheim Golf Classic at the Atunyote Golf Club at Turning Stone Resort & Casino on Tuesday. "We'll be doing that, then we'll be getting for the Olympics this summer; it'll be a busy summer, but an all basketball summer."
Many Class of 2017 targets for Syracuse are trying out for the team, including: Quade Green, Jordan Tucker, Hamidou Diallo, Lonnie Walker, Mohamed Bamba and Michael Porter Jr.
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7 Best NBA Draft landing spots for Malachi Richardson (P{S; photo gallery; Waters)
Coaches hope to improve NCAA basketball tournament selection process (dailypress.com; Teel)
Serving on the NCAA Division I men's basketball committee has long been a thankless task. Money, media and parity have made it worse.
Money: Making the NCAA tournament, and advancing, translate to ever-growing windfalls for schools and coaches.
Media: Everyone's a bracket expert, and few are shy about condemning, in real time via Twitter, almost every seed and at-large selection.
Parity: The committee's decisions have never meant more, as VCU in 2011 and Syracuselast season highlight. Many who follow the sport closely questioned both teams' inclusion, yet both reached the Final Four.
Further parsing of the process came this week as the National Association of Basketball Coaches announced the formation of an ad hoc committee on tournament selection, seeding and bracketing. The NABC panel will meet multiple times in the next few weeks and submit recommendations to the NCAA this summer.
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NBA Draft: The case for picking Malachi Richardson (DO; Schneidman)
Let’s get this out of the way: if Malachi Richardson hadn’t spearheaded Syracuse’s herculean comeback against Virginia in the Elite Eight, odds are he’s in the Melo Center right now taking part in summer workouts. Instead, he’s covering the country doing the same for NBA teams.
His 21-point second-half tirade at the United Center in late March put a seal on a freshman season that apparently flew well under the radar. After all, it wasn’t until the week preceding the Final Four that Richardson started popping up on draft boards.
And while yes, it may look like the former SU wing made a decision to bolt from Syracuse based on one half’s performance, it was those 20 minutes that showcased everything Richardson displayed in segments throughout the regular season. His explosiveness off the dribble, his body control at the rim and his uncanny ability to hit from anywhere and over anyone showed why he could be selected as high as the back end of the lottery in next Thursday’s NBA Draft.
For argument’s sake, I’ll be offering the case against Richardson being taken so high on Thursday, but for now we’ll examine why he’s worthy of his recent meteoric rise.
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Sixers work out players just in case (philly.com; Pompey)
This was basically one of the 76ers' "just in case" workouts.
"We are still looking to identify players in case we move" players in a trade or swap draft picks, 76ers vice president of basketball administration Brandon Williams said after Wednesday's pre-draft workout at Philadelphia College of Oesopathic Medicine.
The Sixers were happy with what they witnessed from the draft prospects, particularly centers Stephen Zimmerman and Stefan Jankovic.
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The Sixers are still trying to schedule a workout for next week with guard Malachi Richardson (Syracuse). He is projected to go anywhere from 9 to 16 in the draft. As a result, the team might have to acquire a second lottery pick in order to be in position to select him.
WKTV.com | Opening night for the King of Kings Pro-Am Basketball League (wktv.com; Daddario)
The "King of Kings" summer basketball league tipped off at Mohawk Valley Community College Wednesday night.
Wednesday marked the eleventh season of the summer tournament that invites community members to enjoy music, food, and performances, on top of watching some of the greatest rising basketball stars in the region compete.
The league recruits men and women from all levels: professional, overseas, division one, and high school players.
Founder of the league, Donelius King, said the success of the tournament goes beyond any expectations.
"When we started this thing back in 2006, we started in the park. We met in the back of my grandfathers house. It was a local basketball league. We never thought we would get to the point where we'd be ncaa sanctioned, nba approved, players from Utica, Syracuse, Albany, Rochester, and even down state. It's exceeded all of our expectations."
Alumni include former Syracuse University players such as, Rakeem Christmas, Michael Carter-Williams, Eric Devendorf and Brandon Triche, CJ Fair, Kris Joseph, and James Southerland.
Next set of games for the men will be Monday, June 20th and the women start Tuesday.
Other
Syracuse University helps detect outer space collision from 1.4 billion years ago (PS; O'Brien)
It happened 1.4 billion years ago: the collision of two massive black holes deep in space.
A massive telescope detected the collision in December with the help of scientists at Syracuse University. It was the second detected collision of black holes in four months.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, detected the collision Dec. 26. SU announced the news today.
The first detected collision, in September, made international news in February. It confirmed the last piece of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity -- that something called gravitational waves exist and can be detected.
The second detection shows the first wasn't just luck, said Stefan Ballmer, associate professor of physics at SU and a leading commissioner at the Hanford Observatory in Hanford, Wash. By 2018, LIGO could be detecting hundreds of black hole collisions a year, he said.
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