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Tyus Battle, aka Black Mumba
Father of SU Target Tyus Battle Describes What Will Influence Son's Decision (PS; Ditota)
Tyus Battle has narrowed his recruiting list. And Syracuse's top priority in the Class of 2016 includes the Orange on his focused final seven.
His dad, Gary Battle, said today by telephone that Tyus will likely choose a destination by spring or early summer, but that a decision "could come at any time." His son, he said, told him he does not want to prolong the recruiting process.
"If he feels like he is ready to make a decision, he's not going to sit on that," Gary Battle said. "If he believes in something, he's going to do it."
Tyus Battle, ranked No. 15 in ESPN's Class of 2016, is a dynamic scorer/facilitator that SU coaches are targeting for the point guard spot. Battle will choose between Connecticut, Duke, Louisville, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Syracuse.
He eliminated Kentucky as a possible destination. Gary Battle said basketball observers were surprised when Tyus scratched the Wildcats from his list.
"People don't understand how unique Tyus is and I'm not saying that just because I'm his father. I've coached AAU basketball," Gary Battle said. "He doesn't get enamored with somebody's status. He takes everything at face value. For him, it's does he fit with the program? How is he going to play? That's just the way he is. I wanted him to keep Kentucky on his list, but he didn't want to."
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Orange Watch: Syracuse Basketball Must Win to Avoid Ignominious Distinction (sujuiceonlijne.com; Bierman)
Item: If the Orange does not win at least one of the remaining games to be played in this season cut short of tournament play; at No. 8/9 Notre Dame Tuesday evening (8:00 p.m. ET / ACCN), at No. 4/5 Duke Saturday, home in Rakeem Christmas’s final Dome appearance against No. 2 Virginia next Monday night, or at North Carolina State on March 7, it will mark the first five game losing streak during Jim Boeheim’s 39 year career.
Following last Saturday’s tough-to-swallow 65-61 defeat to longtime rival Pittsburgh in the Dome, completing a season sweep for the Panthers in the annual home-and-home set, it set up the possibility that unless the ‘Cuse can post an upset in one of its last four games, as they’re likely to be the underdog in all of the contests, added with the Pitt defeat it will equal a bitter-tasting five consecutive losses to end what’s already a disappointingly shortened season due to the hovering NCAA findings, and it’s a losing streak unheard of under SU’s Hall of Fame coach.
» Related: CJ Fair tells Syracuse fans to keep hope alive
The last time the Orange (17-10, 8-6) was in danger of a five game losing streak was the 2010-11 season. Ranked 17th in the polls after dropping four straight in Big East play, on a wintery February night in Hartford SU stopped No. 6 Connecticut 66-58 (a season in which the Huskies would go on to win an improbable national title with 11 consecutive post-season victories in the Big East and NCAA Tournaments, a feat not likely to be accomplished again), to make it a happy scene inside the postgame SU locker room.
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ACC News
UL Survives Road Trip to Atlanta, Beats GT Sans Jones (PS; Stevens)
If Louisville's loss at Syracuse last week was its prelude to how life after Chris Jones would look, Monday's game at Georgia Tech revealed even more about how things will be for the Cardinals moving forward.
Namely, difficult.
Louisville won 52-51 over one of the hardest-luck teams in the ACC, erasing a 13-point deficit in the final 10 minutes to do so. Terry Rozier had 22 points for the Cardinals (22-6, 10-5 ACC), including the go-ahead layup with 20 seconds remaining.
But it was not artful, not easy and certainly not impressive. Louisville wasn't a great offensive team with Jones, who was dismissed from the program Sunday. It isn't getting better without him.
Louisville will still finish in the top third of the ACC, it will still get a decent seed in the NCAA tournament and it will still (probably) win 25 games. But its offensive limitations got exposed again Monday, a further reminder the Cardinals' postseason ceiling is lower than it's been in for much of the recent past.
NUMBERS OF NOTE
2-7
Record for Georgia Tech in one-possession games this season, including Monday's loss to Louisville. The Yellow Jackets (12-16, 3-13) have lost three home games in conference play by a point, with Louisville joining N.C. State and Syracuse as teams slipping past Georgia Tech by the narrowest margin this season.
40.7
Combined shooting percentage at the foul line for Georgia Tech (4 of 10) and Louisville (7 of 17) in Monday's game. The poor work at the foul line nearly cost Louisville, which missed two front ends of one-and-ones in the final 30 seconds to help give the Yellow Jackets some hope in the end-game.
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UL's Chris Jones Threated to 'Smack' Female Night Before He Was Suspended (PS; Carlson)
Louisville guard Chris Jones, who was sidelined when the Cardinals played Syracuse last Wednesday threatened to "smack" a woman he was in a relationship with the night before the game, according to various media reports.
According to the media reports, which cite police paperwork, the woman says she went to his apartment around midnight on Tuesday night to wait for him. He allegedly never arrived and the woman admitted to "messing up" his room.
Jones allegedly texted the woman that he would "smack TF out of" her. He was suspended for the Syracuse game the next day.
Reports say Jones is also the subject of an open investigation by University of Louisville police department.
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Tyus Battle, aka Black Mumba
Father of SU Target Tyus Battle Describes What Will Influence Son's Decision (PS; Ditota)
Tyus Battle has narrowed his recruiting list. And Syracuse's top priority in the Class of 2016 includes the Orange on his focused final seven.
His dad, Gary Battle, said today by telephone that Tyus will likely choose a destination by spring or early summer, but that a decision "could come at any time." His son, he said, told him he does not want to prolong the recruiting process.
"If he feels like he is ready to make a decision, he's not going to sit on that," Gary Battle said. "If he believes in something, he's going to do it."
Tyus Battle, ranked No. 15 in ESPN's Class of 2016, is a dynamic scorer/facilitator that SU coaches are targeting for the point guard spot. Battle will choose between Connecticut, Duke, Louisville, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Syracuse.
He eliminated Kentucky as a possible destination. Gary Battle said basketball observers were surprised when Tyus scratched the Wildcats from his list.
"People don't understand how unique Tyus is and I'm not saying that just because I'm his father. I've coached AAU basketball," Gary Battle said. "He doesn't get enamored with somebody's status. He takes everything at face value. For him, it's does he fit with the program? How is he going to play? That's just the way he is. I wanted him to keep Kentucky on his list, but he didn't want to."
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Orange Watch: Syracuse Basketball Must Win to Avoid Ignominious Distinction (sujuiceonlijne.com; Bierman)
Item: If the Orange does not win at least one of the remaining games to be played in this season cut short of tournament play; at No. 8/9 Notre Dame Tuesday evening (8:00 p.m. ET / ACCN), at No. 4/5 Duke Saturday, home in Rakeem Christmas’s final Dome appearance against No. 2 Virginia next Monday night, or at North Carolina State on March 7, it will mark the first five game losing streak during Jim Boeheim’s 39 year career.
Following last Saturday’s tough-to-swallow 65-61 defeat to longtime rival Pittsburgh in the Dome, completing a season sweep for the Panthers in the annual home-and-home set, it set up the possibility that unless the ‘Cuse can post an upset in one of its last four games, as they’re likely to be the underdog in all of the contests, added with the Pitt defeat it will equal a bitter-tasting five consecutive losses to end what’s already a disappointingly shortened season due to the hovering NCAA findings, and it’s a losing streak unheard of under SU’s Hall of Fame coach.
» Related: CJ Fair tells Syracuse fans to keep hope alive
The last time the Orange (17-10, 8-6) was in danger of a five game losing streak was the 2010-11 season. Ranked 17th in the polls after dropping four straight in Big East play, on a wintery February night in Hartford SU stopped No. 6 Connecticut 66-58 (a season in which the Huskies would go on to win an improbable national title with 11 consecutive post-season victories in the Big East and NCAA Tournaments, a feat not likely to be accomplished again), to make it a happy scene inside the postgame SU locker room.
...
ACC News
UL Survives Road Trip to Atlanta, Beats GT Sans Jones (PS; Stevens)
If Louisville's loss at Syracuse last week was its prelude to how life after Chris Jones would look, Monday's game at Georgia Tech revealed even more about how things will be for the Cardinals moving forward.
Namely, difficult.
Louisville won 52-51 over one of the hardest-luck teams in the ACC, erasing a 13-point deficit in the final 10 minutes to do so. Terry Rozier had 22 points for the Cardinals (22-6, 10-5 ACC), including the go-ahead layup with 20 seconds remaining.
But it was not artful, not easy and certainly not impressive. Louisville wasn't a great offensive team with Jones, who was dismissed from the program Sunday. It isn't getting better without him.
Louisville will still finish in the top third of the ACC, it will still get a decent seed in the NCAA tournament and it will still (probably) win 25 games. But its offensive limitations got exposed again Monday, a further reminder the Cardinals' postseason ceiling is lower than it's been in for much of the recent past.
NUMBERS OF NOTE
2-7
Record for Georgia Tech in one-possession games this season, including Monday's loss to Louisville. The Yellow Jackets (12-16, 3-13) have lost three home games in conference play by a point, with Louisville joining N.C. State and Syracuse as teams slipping past Georgia Tech by the narrowest margin this season.
40.7
Combined shooting percentage at the foul line for Georgia Tech (4 of 10) and Louisville (7 of 17) in Monday's game. The poor work at the foul line nearly cost Louisville, which missed two front ends of one-and-ones in the final 30 seconds to help give the Yellow Jackets some hope in the end-game.
...
UL's Chris Jones Threated to 'Smack' Female Night Before He Was Suspended (PS; Carlson)
Louisville guard Chris Jones, who was sidelined when the Cardinals played Syracuse last Wednesday threatened to "smack" a woman he was in a relationship with the night before the game, according to various media reports.
According to the media reports, which cite police paperwork, the woman says she went to his apartment around midnight on Tuesday night to wait for him. He allegedly never arrived and the woman admitted to "messing up" his room.
Jones allegedly texted the woman that he would "smack TF out of" her. He was suspended for the Syracuse game the next day.
Reports say Jones is also the subject of an open investigation by University of Louisville police department.
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