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Welcome to Orangemen's Day!
Also known as the Twelfth or the Glorious Twelfth, Orangemen's Day commemorates and celebrates the Battle of the Boyne, fought in 1690, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which took place when James II, a Roman Catholic, was deposed, and William of Orange, a Protestant, received his throne. Orangemen's Day primarily is celebrated by people with Protestant Irish or Scottish backgrounds. In some locations, it is observed on the Monday closest to July 12th.
The Battle of the Boyne was fought on July 1, 1690, outside of Drogheda, along the River Boyne, in what now is the Republic of Ireland. Prince William of Orange and James II of England and Ireland, who was also known as King James VII of Scotland, each raised an army of about 30,000 troops, and Prince William came out victorious in the battle. The battle remains a symbol of the sectarian struggles in Ireland between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Not long after it, the defeated Catholics formed underground societies in an attempt to restore the line of James. The Protestants countered by forming the Orange Order.
SU News
(youtube; podcast; Waters)
Adam Zagoria of Zagsblog and NJ.com joins host Mike Waters on the podcast to talk about Peach Jam, Syracuse’s recruiting and thoughts on Donnie Freeman and Elijah Moore. Zagoria and Waters also discuss how coaches can manage and build their rosters in the transfer portal and NIL era. Later in the podcast, some thoughts on high-profile recruits such as Kiyan Anthony and Cameron and Cayden Boozer and how the sons of NBA players will handle recruiting.
Syracuse Basketball: 5-star center with Orange offer announces his top 8 (itlh; Adler)
Despite the Syracuse basketball coaching staff having strong connections to both his high school and his AAU program, the Orange is officially out of the running for fast-rising 2024 center Patrick Ngongba II from the Washington, D.C., area, who recently vaulted to five stars via ESPN.
The 6-foot-10 Ngongba, who landed a scholarship offer from the ‘Cuse in late April, has released a top eight of Duke, Indiana, 2022 national champion Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky, Michigan, Providence and 2023 national champ UConn, per an article from On3 national analyst Joe Tipton.
In late June, I wrote an article about Ngongba, stating that I didn’t think Syracuse basketball was a significant contender for him, based on recent media reports and some thoughts that I had received from a recruiting insider in the D.C. market.
Over the past few weeks, according to his Twitter page, Ngongba had secured new offers from the likes of Texas, Kentucky, Kansas and Michigan. His full offer sheet also has included Duke, UConn, Mississippi State, Indiana, Virginia Tech, Providence, Kansas State, Georgetown, Iowa, Virginia, Butler, George Washington, Wichita State, Ole Miss, Maryland, Pittsburgh, George Mason and Notre Dame, among others.
Syracuse basketball didn’t make the top eight of 2024 five-star center Patrick Ngongba II.
Ngongba has taken official visits to Duke, UConn, Providence and Kansas State. According to Tipton, Ngongba “plans to take at least one more visit to one of his remaining finalists before making a decision. Ngongba says he currently does not have a commitment date, but plans to announce sometime before the early signing period in November.”
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Syracuse Basketball: On big-time AAU stages, 4-star commits were stellar (itlh; Adler)
The Syracuse basketball two-member 2024 class shined bright this past weekend as the three main shoe-sponsored AAU circuits culminated their spring and summer seasons.
The Orange, at present, has two verbal commitments in its 2024 cycle. They are from four-star shooting guard Elijah Moore of New York City and four-star power forward Donnie Freeman of Washington, D.C.
The 6-foot-9 Freeman, last Sunday, won the Peach Jam 17U championship in Nike’s EYBL league, and he had a strong second half in the title game to help propel the D.C.-based Team Takeover to ultimately cut down the nets.
Meanwhile, the 6-foot-4 Moore continued his run of putting up eye-popping scoring numbers this spring and summer for the 17U squad of the Bronx, N.Y.-based Wiz Kids in the Adidas 3SSB league. As all of the AAU circuits wrapped up their seasons a few days ago, the ‘Cuse coaching staff was in attendance for both Moore and Freeman when an NCAA live period took place from July 6 to July 9.
Syracuse basketball 2024 commits Donnie Freeman and Elijah Moore were fantastic in the final AAU sessions.
Team Takeover, a program that has strong connections to the Orange coaching staff, went 8-0 at Peach Jam and 14-3 during the EYBL’s regular season, for a combined overall record of 22-3. That’s impressive.
When Team Takeover defeated the Las Vegas-based Vegas Elite, 76-61, at the Riverview Park Activities Center in North Augusta, S.C., for the 17U grand prize, Freeman tallied 13 points, four rebounds, one assist and one block. And he did this while playing before a national television audience on ESPNU.
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Jalil Bethea Includes Syracuse in Recruiting Update (orangefizz.net; Frank)
Syracuse basketball’s coaches were on the road over the past few days doing some scouting and recruiting down at Peach Jam, the most prominent AAU event of the summer. Among the players the Orange coaches saw include commits Elijah Moore and Donnie Freeman, along with a number of other players on the SU radar. The main target for Adrian Autry right now might be Jalil Bethea, a five-star shooting guard and the 11th-ranked player in the class of 2024 according to the 247 Sports Composite.
Bethea did an interview with On3 after his strong performance over the weekend, where he averaged 18.7 points per game and shot nearly 37% from behind the arc at Peach Jam. In regards to his thoughts on Syracuse, he told On3:
“They welcomed me and treated me like I was already on the team, already a player. It felt a lot like another place I could call home. Since Coach Autry took over as the head coach, our relationship has actually grown. When Coach (Jim) Boeheim was the coach, I talked with all the coaches and was able to build a really good relationship with everyone on the staff. All that has just grown.”
If you’re SU, this is a very positive thing to hear, and just another affirmation of what Autry, Gerry McNamara, Allen Griffin, and Brenden Straughn are doing as a staff in terms of creating and fostering relationships with players, and selling them on their aligned vision between coach and player for success at the next level and beyond.
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Menlo Microsystems has a research and development center at the Albany Nanotech Complex in Albany. N.Y. The company plans to open a manufacturing plant near Ithaca.
Central New York lands $50M microchip plant that will create 122 jobs (PS; $; Weiner)
A California company plans to open a $50 million microchip switch plant near Ithaca that will create 122 jobs and build on Central New York’s growing reputation as a hub for semiconductor manufacturing.
Menlo Microsystems of Irvine, Calif., agreed to locate its first U.S. manufacturing site in an existing industrial building that it will renovate in the town of Lansing, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Gov. Kathy Hochul said today.
The plant will manufacture a new generation of electronic switches that help make electronics smaller, faster, more powerful and more energy efficient. The switches are a component used in semiconductor computer chips.
The company markets its switches to a wide range of customers, including developers of 5G cellular networks and the aerospace industry. Menlo Micro calls its “Ideal Switch” the greatest electronic component innovation since the transistor.
The company will be part of an emerging cluster for semiconductor manufacturing in Upstate New York anchored by Micron’s planned $100 billion investment in a massive chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse’s northern suburbs, Schumer and Hochul said.
Micron agreed in October to build a complex of chip fabs in the town of Clay that would employ up to 9,000 people and create up to 40,000 related supply chain jobs.
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‘Syracuse’ has a role in new ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ movie (PS; $; Herbert)
One of cinema’s greatest archaeologists is headed to Syracuse. No, not that Syracuse.
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” in theaters Friday, brings back Harrison Ford for a fifth and final adventure as Indy, now a retired professor in the 1960s. What could be left for him after finding the Ark of the Covenant, traversing the “Temple of Doom,” surviving “The Last Crusade,” and even bringing his trademark hat and whip to the lesser “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?”
After a 1940s-set prologue with a de-aged Ford, “Indiana Jones 5″ launches into a search for Archimedes’ Antikythera — a celestial calculation machine with predictive capabilities and some otherworldly powers, according to the Associated Press. That’s the so-called “Dial of Destiny.”
To find it, Indy will head to Syracuse — in Italy.
Siracusa, Sicily, the namesake of Syracuse, N.Y., is the birthplace of the mathematician Archimedes and a city filled with history.
“An ancient capital clad in white limestone, it’s a wonder it took the franchise until the fifth film to arrive in Syracuse,” magazine London Luxury wrote. “Amid the limestone alleys of Ortigia (its historic centre) rowdy Sicilian fish markets fulminate, while, in an unassuming corner of the Piazza della Duomo, a Caravaggio hangs, emanating an irresistible pull. It’s exactly the kind of city where you’d hide treasures, with so many already in plain sight.”
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