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Mixed Juice: Who starts for the 2019-20 Syracuse basketball team? - The Juice Online (the juice; Sen & Cheng)
With the basketball offseason underway, The Juice Online’s Saugat Sen and Wes Cheng look toward the 2019-20 team. Today’s topic: Who is going to be starting for SU next season?
WES CHENG: Saugat, now that we are officially into the basketball offseason, let’s look forward to the 2019-20 season. Who do you have as your starters this upcoming year?
SAUGAT SEN: With Tyus Battle gone, and assuming Paschal Chukwu does not pursue another year and Oshae Brissett returns for his junior year, I think the starting lineup becomes:
PG: Jalen Carey
SG: Buddy Boeheim
SF: Elijah Hughes
PF: Oshae Brissett
C: Bourama Sidibe
Now the Sidibe starting spot is something I am questioning even as we talk. And maybe even the Buddy Boeheim one.
WC: I can see why you’re questioning the Buddy decision because I don’t think Buddy will be in the starting lineup. In the upcoming season, Syracuse has a lack of proven depth at guard. Buddy was in the rotation last season, but Carey was benched for the majority of ACC play. Behind them is a list of unprovens: Howard Washington. Joe Girard. Brycen Goodine. The easy way to resolve this is to move Elijah Hughes from wing to guard. Wing depth is a strength for the Orange with Brissett, Marek Dolezaj and Quincy Guerrier, and potentially Robert Braswell depending on his development.
So my projected starting lineup would be:
PG: Jalen Carey
SG: Elijah Hughes
SF: Quincy Guerrier
PF: Oshae Brissett
C: Bourama Sidibe
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16 years after national title win with Syracuse, Gerry McNamara can still shoot (DO; Gutierrez)
As he spotted up on the perimeter, Gerry McNamara went to work. Basketballs from a shooting machine known as the “gun” were fed to him, one pass after the other. From the corner, wings and top of the key, he put on a shooting clinic in the Carmelo K. Anthony Center, taking about 100 consecutive 3-pointers in under 10 minutes. He missed only nine.
Former Syracuse women’s star Brittney Sykes, now a guard for the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, happened to look over at the court when McNamara began. “It was mind-boggling,” Sykes recalled.
“I was like, ‘Dammit, G-Mac,’” Sykes said. “You hear about the player he was, and I knew he could shoot it, but I was a little kid then. Now I saw it. Like wow. This is real.”
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SU signees Joe Girard III, Brycen Goodine compete in National 3-Point Contest on CBS5 (cnycentral.com; Hauswirth)
A pair of Syracuse University basketball recruits were showcased on the national stage Sunday on CBS5.
Joe Girard III and Brycen Goodine, two of SU's five recruits in the 2019 class, were invited to Minneapolis this weekend to take part in the American Family Insurance Three-Point Contest, which was held on Friday but shown on television Sunday.
This year's Final Four is also being held in Minneapolis.
Girard stepped to the plate first, tallying 13 points in the opening round. That was good for sixth place out of the eight contestants.
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Texas Tech and Virginia face off tonight anticipating a mutual defensive ordeal (bdtonline.com; AP)
For Virginia and Texas Tech, doing something that had never been done before took hard work, dedication, determination — and vision.
The Cavaliers and Red Raiders meet in the NCAA Tournament championship game Monday night. Neither program has ever been this close to a title, making it a rare matchup of first-timers to the final game of the college basketball season. The last time both teams in the championship game had never been there before was 40 years ago, when Magic Johnson and Michigan State beat Larry Bird and Indiana State.
Between the Red Raiders (31-6) and Cavaliers (34-3), a first-time champ is guaranteed. The last one of those was crowned in 2006, when Florida won the first of back-to-back titles.
College basketball’s hierarchy, blue bloods in an array of shades from Duke to Kentucky, North Carolina to Kansas, is difficult to crack. Getting here started with Virginia coach Tony Bennett and Texas Tech’s Chris Beard believing it could be done.
“Then you’ve got to get people on board that really believe it and believe it in front of you, behind your back, believe it at 10 o’clock when they’re out of town, on the road somewhere. Believe it in the morning, believe it when they’re talking to their wife, their kid,” Beard said Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium. “They’ve got to really believe it.”
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NCAA Latest: ACC clinches most wins for this tournament (boston25new.com; AP)
The Latest on the championship game of the NCAA Tournament between Virginia and Texas Tech (all times local):
3:10 p.m.
Texas Tech guard Matt Mooney is encouraging all those fans back in Lubbock to take whatever happens in the national title game against Virginia on Monday night in stride.
That's after riots ensued after a semifinal win over Michigan State.
"Don't burn down Lubbock before we get back," Mooney said, suppressing a smile before heading out for a final practice. "I know it was crazy out there. Just be safe."
The city of Lubbock said in a statement that hundreds of fans gathered near campus and "engaged in extremely dangerous, and disappointing, behavior that included vandalizing property."
Texas Tech coach Chris Beard wasn't particularly pleased with it, either, saying that "I just hate the actions of a few have put Lubbock in that life."
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Zion Williamson Wins Citizen Naismith Trophy (goduke.com)
Duke freshman Zion Williamson was named the 2019 winner of the Citizen Naismith Trophy that was handed out Sunday by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to the men’s college basketball most outstanding player.
Williamson becomes just the third to win the award in as a freshman, joining Kentucky’s Anthony Davis (2012) and Texas’ Kevin Durant (2007). The Spartanburg, S.C., native edged out three other finalists for this year’s trophy -- juniors Rui Hachimura (Gonzaga) and Grant Williams (Tennessee) and sophomore Ja Morant (Murray State).
The announcement and presentation of the Citizen Naismith Trophy -- named after the inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith – was made at the Naismith Awards Brunch at the Nicollet Island Pavilion in downtown Minneapolis.
“I want to thank the Citizen Naismith committee for selecting me as the Player of the Year,” said Williamson. “It is truly an honor to receive this, and join such an elite list of former Blue Devils to have also won the award. There were so many great players who could have won this award this year. I can’t thank my teammates, coaches and family enough for helping me. This is a team award, and it’s an honor for me to accept this on behalf of my brothers.”
Williamson is the eighth Blue Devil to claim the top honor, giving Duke the most trophy wins by any program. J.J. Redick (2006) was the school’s most recent honoree, with the list of Blue Devils also including Jason Williams (2002), Shane Battier (2001), Elton Brand (1999), Christian Laettner (1992), Danny Ferry (1989) and Johnny Dawkins (1986).
Laettner, Virginia’s Ralph Sampson and UCLA’s Bill Walton were among the former Naismith winners on hand Sunday to help present Williamson his trophy.
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Central New York's 100 greatest high school athletes of all time, in order (PS; Weidner)
Here is Central New York’s most epic dream team -- the Top 100 high school athletes of all-time.
We took the deep dive into decades of Syracuse-area leagues, a wide range of sports and tens of thousands of players. We put the question to dozens of coaches, former players and other experts, who mostly greeted this daunting task with one reaction: Good luck.
This final list shows the amazing skill, accomplishment and range of high school sports here.
It runs from players still competing in the pros to players from almost a century ago. City and rural schools, multi-sport stars and specialists, longstanding families of athletes and a recent immigrant to the U.S. Athletes who played only for the joy of it and those who earned millions of dollars from their game.
Football and gymnastics, basketball and golf, lacrosse and cross-country. The best of the best, no matter their passion.
It wasn’t easy. How do you compare boys and girls? Athletes from distant eras compared with the products of modern training?
We made some ground rules. We emphasized the athlete’s performance in high school, but we also considered an athlete's success as an adult. These stars played in the Super Bowl, World Series and Olympics.
If you’re still in college, we’ll catch you next time we try this.
We also factored in how that person impacted his or her sport -- on and off the field. In that respect, players such as basketball star Breanna Stewart and lacrosse player Lyle Thompson score high.
We tried to limit the list to those who played on local high school teams. There aren't a lot of hockey players on the list, because many of the best went to prep schools or played in junior hockey in Canada.
So, here is the CNY100.
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