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Syracuse basketball 'seems to have lost some traction' with 4-star PG Tyler Jackson (itlh; Adler)

A media report suggests that Syracuse basketball "seems to have lost some traction" in the recruitment of 2025 four-star point guard Tyler Jackson from Baltimore.

The 6-foot-3 Jackson, a senior in the Atlanta-based professional league Overtime Elite, received a scholarship offer from the Orange staff in late April of 2023. In late January of this year, he took an official visit to Syracuse basketball.

In an article for ZAGSBLOG, top insiders Adam Zagoria, Sam Lance and Charlie Parent discussed various highly rated prospects and where things stand in their respective recruiting processes.

They noted a recent story from top national analyst/scout Jamie Shaw of On3, who has reported that Jackson is eyeing potential official visits in October to TCU and Oklahoma State out of the Big 12 Conference, as well as Southeastern Conference school Mississippi State.

According to recruiting services, Jackson has picked up more than 20 scholarship offers throughout his recruitment from a range of high-major programs.

Syracuse basketball is pursuing several other 2025 four-star prospects.

In the spring, Jackson said in an interview that he was in regular communication at that time with the 'Cuse coaching staff. A top-60 national prospect in the senior cycle, Jackson earlier this year also discussed the possibility of teaming up with 2025 four-star shooting guard and top-30 national prospect Kiyan Anthony on the Hill.

The 6-foot-5 Anthony and Jackson are good friends. This past spring and summer, they played together on the AAU circuit for the 17U squad of the Baltimore-based Team Melo in Nike's EYBL league.

Anthony, a senior at the powerhouse Long Island Lutheran High School in Brookville, N.Y., has a final three of the Orange, Big Ten Conference member Southern California and the SEC's Auburn. Reports indicate that Anthony intends to make his college decision in November, and he may take a second official visit to the 'Cuse before his commitment announcement.
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Jaquan Carlos is one of many transfers into Syracuse basketball. The point guard has the opportunity to make a big impact. / Mitchell Layton/GettyImages

Syracuse Basketball: Three keys for newcomer Jaquan Carlos to find his role in the 2024-25 season (itlh; Mlodzinski)

While center Eddie Lampkin Jr. might steal the spotlight as the highlight of Syracuse basketball's offseason, make no mistake - Jaquan Carlos is going to have a very impactful role.

The senior comes to the 315 after spending three seasons on Long Island, running point guard for the Hofstra Pride. He was a two-year starter, and in 2023-24, finished tied for 14th in the country with 6.3 assists per game.

Carlos figures to start at point guard for the Orange, or at least share those duties with junior JJ Starling. Last season, Judah Mintz led SU with 4.4 assists per game, so a replacement in that department is needed.

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Syracuse Basketball: CBS Sports experts are totally sleeping on the Orange in the ACC (itlh; Adler)

As the 2024-25 season for Syracuse basketball is less than a month away, it's that time of year when national and Atlantic Coast Conference pundits opine on where the Orange will reside in the league's pecking order.

One of those forecasts came this week from experts at CBS Sports, and their projection for the 'Cuse within the ACC in 2024-25 isn't flattering, to say the least. Granted, these sorts of prognostications should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.

While I acknowledge that I'm a homer when it comes to my alma mater, I respectfully disagree with CBS Sports' assessment of Syracuse basketball in the upcoming campaign. The national media outlet has the Orange at No. 12 in the ACC, a league that has expanded to 18 members in hoops with the additions of California, SMU and Stanford.

Naturally, head coach Adrian Autry, his top-flight staff and their players will have plenty of chances to prove the naysayers wrong. The team's 2024-25 season, by the way, commences on Monday, Nov. 4, when the 'Cuse will host nearby Le Moyne in a non-conference clash at the JMA Wireless Dome.

CBS Sports is not high on Syracuse basketball ahead of the 2024-25 term.

In the CBS Sports story forecasting the 2024-25 ACC standings, here's what was said about the Orange: "Adrian Autry finished a respectable 11-9 in his first season as Jim Boeheim's successor despite losing starting center Naheem McLeod to an injury after just 14 games and rotation piece Benny Williams to a suspension in early February. But it's possible a step backwards is on tap given that five of the top seven scorers from that team are gone, among them leading scorer Judah Mintz, who averaged 18.8 points per game, which ranked second in the ACC. Eddie Lampkin Jr. is the most recognizable of the incoming transfers after averaging 10.6 points and 7.0 rebounds last season for a Colorado team that won two games in the NCAA Tournament. But what Syracuse enrolled might not be enough to offset what Syracuse lost and help the Orange avoid a notable slide on the conference standings."
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https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nat...asketball-kicks-off-season-at-acc-media-days/ (localsyr.com; Mustion)

Both Syracuse men’s and women’s basketball teams traveled to ACC Media Days in Charlotte to preview the team and the season.

With the departure of Dyaisha Fair, the SU women are ready to show the conference what they are made of this year. Returners Georgia Woolley and Kyra Wood represented the Orange alongside Head Coach Felisha Legette-Jack this week and emphasized how much talent they have on the court. They brought in numerous transfers in the off season including Journey Thompson and, now captain, Angelica Velez.

For the men, they are up bright and early on Thursday morning, ready to represent Syracuse at 8:30 a.m.

Maliq Brown #6 of the Duke Blue Devils dunks during Countdown to Craziness at Cameron Indoor Stadium on October 04, 2024 in Durham, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)Getty Images

Duke coach Jon Scheyer assesses Maliq Brown: ‘I’m glad you asked’ (PS; $; Ditota)

Jon Scheyer seemed happy to address the question.

The Duke coach was asked about Maliq Brown Wednesday afternoon at ACC Media Day in Charlotte.

Brown, of course, played two seasons at Syracuse before entering the transfer portal last spring and within a few weeks deciding on Duke. He told his hometown newspaper late last May that Duke had always been a dream destination.

“Since I started liking the game of basketball, playing in the ACC was my goal and Duke was my dream,” he told the Culpeper Star-Exponent. “So many greats have come through their program and they are still very connected to the game.”

The Blue Devils, who have the consensus No. 1 freshman in college basketball in Cooper Flagg, will be a Top 10 team to start the season.

“He’s been terrific for us, man,” Scheyer said of Brown during a portion of media day televised on the ACC Network. “Somebody should ask these guys (Tyrese Proctor and Caleb Foster) if they like trying to score on him. We track deflections. His deflections are off the charts more than any player I’ve ever coached in terms of his activity on the ball and off the ball.

“Great versatility. Really, just whatever you ask him to do, a great competitor but such a great teammate. Selfless. Doesn’t care about his own stats, probably to a fault. That would be my biggest thing with him - he can be even more aggressive, right? That’s what we talk to him about. But his versatility, his ability to play multiple spots in the frontcourt and the last thing is how smart he is. He’s a great passer, natural feel for the game. I’ve loved coaching him.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/58...-deal-realignment/?source=user_shared_article (nytimes; $; Marks)

Midway through his fourth year as ACC commissioner, Jim Phillips has one overarching goal guiding most of his decision-making:

“That we have a sustainable model for college sports, that has a chance to be healthy,” Phillips told The Athletic this week, “and has the chance to have longevity to it.”

If only things were so simple. Instead, college athletics’ already unstable foundation is growing shakier by the day. The Big Ten and SEC will meet in Nashville this week to discuss, among other things, automatic College Football Playoff berths for their leagues, further exacerbating the growing gap between the proverbial Power 2 and every other conference — the ACC included.

Elsewhere, multiple super league proposals have emerged that challenge the existing conference model altogether and may hasten more widespread changes to the infrastructure of college sports. And as if that weren’t enough, on Monday, Judge Claudia Wilken gave preliminary approval to the proposed House v. NCAA settlement, which will allow schools to share revenue directly with college athletes for the first time — and as early as next year.

Many of those issues are outside of Phillips’ direct control, but not all of them. It’s Phillips’ job to prioritize things that will maintain the ACC’s positioning within the current college sports hierarchy — most notably, the league’s upcoming “look-in” period with ESPN in February 2025 regarding the ACC’s media rights contract.

To date, that “look-in” period has been viewed nationally as something of an inflection point for the ACC. Were ESPN to not pick up the option on its deal with the ACC, in theory, the league would be back on the media rights market in 2027 … or, much more likely, susceptible to a new wave of conference realignment — especially with the league’s two recent football powers, Clemson and Florida State, already suing with designs on getting out of the league. But that entire notion appears to be based on a misconception, or at least a misunderstanding of what February’s “look-in” period actually entails.

That’s because the ACC actually has two media rights deals with ESPN: one, its “base” deal, which was originally signed before the ACC Network was announced in 2016, and which focuses on ACC programming on Disney’s main networks (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, etc.); and another, signed in 2016, which deals specifically with the ACC Network. Why does that discrepancy matter? Because only the “base” deal is part of February’s look-in period; the second, ACC Network-specific deal already runs through 2036 — which has not previously been reported — and overlaps with the ACC’s larger grant of rights.
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NC State's Kevin Keatts On ACC Being Overlooked In March (youtube; video ACC DN)

Coming off his NC State Wolfpack's run to the Final Four the previous season, head coach Kevin Keatts tried to explain why he believes the NCAA Tournament selection committee keeps overlooking the ACC despite the ACC performing better than any other conference over the past several seasons. He mentioned how the committee has put an emphasis on out-of-conference play, and thinks that several Hall of Fame coaches retiring over the past few seasons has hurt perception.

Syracuse Men's Basketball on Instagram: "Committed to the process #OrangeStandard"

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Syracuse University Bands on Instagram: "Senior conductor - Ashlyn DiNatale!"

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Tom Maguire, of Syracuse, last month caught this Otisco Lake tiger muskie, describing it as "tubular terror." It was Maguire's first muskie in 40 years of fishing the Finger Lakes. Tom Maguire

Two tales of tiger muskie terror from Otisco Lake (PS; Featherstone)

“Tubular terror.”

That’s how Tom Maguire, of Syracuse, described the tiger muskie he caught last month. Since it was Maguire’s first tiger, and considering that he’s a retired newspaper reporter, and that Halloween is just around the corner, we’re going to allow the rhetorical excess this one time.

Maguire was on the west side of Otisco Lake, tossing a pearl ¼ oz Mr. Twister jig in 15 feet of water, just outside the weed line. Something hit it hard but didn’t run like a bass or bluegill would.

He was using only 6-pound test, so Maguire cautiously reeled it to the boat where the “tubular terror” materialized in the dark greenish water.

We’ll let Maguire take it from here:

“An awesome sight: streamlined, tiger stripes, big head with the big half-moon-cookie eyes, black and silver instead of chocolate and white...you would have gasped at the bulk of the thing: cylindrical, yes, but thicker than a Wegmans sub.”

The beast ripped the net out of Maguire’s outstretched hand and hauled it into the lake. Maguire snatched the net handle and wrestled the fish into his boat. He took a moment to admire its terrible beauty before returning it to the lake.

“How delightful after fishing the Finger Lakes for more than 40 years to catch a species I’d never caught before!” Maguire exclaimed.

Maguire later scraped up scales that the tiger shed on his boat and put them in a jar as a “good-luck charm whenever I need to do something spectacular,” he said.
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B-ville angler’s 9-lb smallmouth bass obliterates NY State record (PS; Featherstone)

Baldwinsville native Dante Piraino, 25, had little time to practice before competing in two back-to-back New York B.A.S.S. Federation tournaments on the St. Lawrence River in late September.

“I take my time off sparingly,” said Piraino, who has a full-time job as a project engineer and also runs his own boat rigging business, Deep River Technologies.

“It’s been hectic trying to juggle it all, but it’s been good,” he said.

Good is an understatement. But it’s consistent with Piraino’s humble attitude.

Piraino went on to win the second tournament of the weekend. And he did that by setting a NY B.A.S.S. Nation record for a five-fish bag total weight of 31.4 lbs.



For context, not one of the roughly 100 Bassmaster Elite Series anglers—arguably the best bass anglers in the world—broke the 30-lb mark during a tournament on the St. Lawrence River in mid-August.

And Piraino did that by landing an absolute whale of a smallmouth bass that weighed 9.0 lbs on the tournament scale, obliterating by more than half a pound the NYS record set in 2022 by Thomas Russell, whose Cayuga Lake fish beat the previous record set in 1995 by less than two ounces.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is processing Piraino’s paperwork and expects to soon certify his spectacular smallie as the new state record.

Did we mention that Piraino is also a top-notch grandson?

While other tournament anglers were putting in a few days of practice on the river to fine tune their strategy, Piraino had just a few hours because he needed to deliver some frozen walleye filets to his grandfather.

“He’s obsessed with walleye,” joked Piraino, “so my day was cut short.”
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Mesmerizing waterspouts spotted on Lake Ontario. Will more appear in Upstate NY today? (PS; House)

In a record-breaking year for tornadoes, another type of twister was spotted this week in Upstate New York.

Waterspouts spun atop Lake Ontario on Tuesday morning in the Rochester area as a cold air mass met the relatively warm lake. The stunning phenomenon was captured by photographers across the area — including one observer who could see a waterspout from downtown Rochester.

While they make for a stunning sight, waterspouts aren’t necessarily rare on Great Lakes like Lake Ontario — especially in late summer and early fall, when cool air travels over the still-warm lakes.

While they look like twisters, the whirling towers water mist and air are not always considered tornadoes.

There are two types of waterspouts: fair weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts.

The fair-weather variety form over the surface of a body of water when winds are light and usually don’t move very far, according to the National Weather Service. Tornadic waterspouts typically form during severe thunderstorms and are often joined by strong winds, large hail and “dangerous” lightning, the weather service said.
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