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Syracuse's Class of 2016 Basketball Recruit Matthew Moyer Finishes Season, Stays True to SU (PS; Ditota)
Matthew Moyer scored 15 points, hauled in 14 rebounds, blocked three shots and collected four assists in a losing effort on Saturday.
The Class of 2016 Syracuse basketball commit played his final game of the season for Gahanna Lincoln (Ohio) High School. Northland overcame a 14-point deficit with fewer than three minutes to play in the Division I Ohio District final to beat Moyer's team, 66-65.
Moyer, the springy 6-foot-8 forward, verbally committed to Syracuse last year. SU assistant coach Gerry McNamara watched Moyer play last week in a state playoff game. Moyer had been nursing a sore wrist, but after his doctor declared the wrist wasn't broken, he convinced his parents that he could finish Gahanna's playoff run.
Moyer and McNamara
Moyer will start practicing with his AAU team this weekend and will be touring Italy, France and Switzerland with Team Ohio later this month.
His mom, Annette Moyer, said the family had a chance to talk with McNamara when he visited last week. The SU assistant told the Moyers the scholarship numbers will likely "work out" so that Matthew can attend Syracuse.
NCAA sanctions will limit SU by three basketball scholarships per year for four seasons starting in 2016-17.
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SU Basketball Beat Writers Assess Performance of Up-And-Down 2014-15 Orange Team (DO; Staff)
2014-15 SU Basketball Team Report Card (sujuiceonline.com; Cheng)
Now that the 2014-15 season is over, it’s a good time to give out our grades for this year:
Rakeem Christmas: How many players have improved over four years like Christmas? He leaves Syracuse as one of its most polished big men ever, and should have a good shot at making an NBA roster. He led the team in points (17.5), rebounds (9.1) and blocks (2.5). Grade: A+
Trevor Cooney: The mercurial guard’s season resembled a bell curve. Cooney started the season 9-33 from beyond the arc before starting a torrid 34-72 clip at the end of non-conference play and into the early part of the ACC. But Cooney struggled with a tight back toward the end of the season, and finished just 30.9 percent from downtown. Will he ever find consistency? Grade: B-
Michael Gbinije: After Gbinije dropped 27 points in a Valentine’s Day loss to Duke, Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Gbinije had developed into the player Duke always though he’d be. That Duke game was part of a six-game stretch where Gbinije averaged 20.5 points per game. He also ended up being SU’s best outside shooter, making 39 percent of his 3s. The question is, can he do it on a nightly basis? Grade: B+
Chris McCullough: Before tearing his ACL 16 games into the season, McCullough was averaging 9.3 points and 6.3 rebounds, but his flaws were evident. He was far too lean to play on the interior and at times looked disinterested in what was going on in front of him. McCullough will return sometime in December, and could be one of the best players in the ACC next year. Grade: INC
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Save the Moody Mile: An Upstate Movement Born in Small Racing Communities (PS; Kirst)
Corky Stockham doesn't want anyone to get him wrong. He's not trying to feud with any politicians. He understands that sometimes change has to come.
Yet Stockham said anyone who's been around this region for a lifetime knows an elemental truth about Central New York:
"We all want progress, but so many times we get what we call progress and we remember when this was this, and that was that, and we loved it, and now it's gone."
His fear: That's about to happen to Super DIRT Week.
Stockham publishes the Bridgeport-based National Parts Peddler, a well-known racing trade publication. He had a booth Saturday at the Motorsports Expo 2015 in the Center of Progress Building, at the state fairgrounds. The space was crowded with gleaming race cars, racks of racing suits, tables heavy with automotive tools, countless racing T-shirts.
Everyone knew Stockham, who loves to shoot the breeze. He wandered toward the north end of the building, where Brian Pokorny carried a clipboard, near a big red-and-black banner that shouted, "Save the Moody Mile."
The mile is the historic dirt oval by the grandstand at the fair, a track that's hosted auto racing since the early 20th century. Pokorny's Flag2 Flag Racing provides digital classified listings for the sport. He said he was stunned two weeks ago when acting state fair director Troy Waffner said the 2015 Super DIRT Week -- the autumn racing extravaganza at the fairgrounds -- could be the last, at least for Syracuse.
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Syracuse's Class of 2016 Basketball Recruit Matthew Moyer Finishes Season, Stays True to SU (PS; Ditota)
Matthew Moyer scored 15 points, hauled in 14 rebounds, blocked three shots and collected four assists in a losing effort on Saturday.
The Class of 2016 Syracuse basketball commit played his final game of the season for Gahanna Lincoln (Ohio) High School. Northland overcame a 14-point deficit with fewer than three minutes to play in the Division I Ohio District final to beat Moyer's team, 66-65.
Moyer, the springy 6-foot-8 forward, verbally committed to Syracuse last year. SU assistant coach Gerry McNamara watched Moyer play last week in a state playoff game. Moyer had been nursing a sore wrist, but after his doctor declared the wrist wasn't broken, he convinced his parents that he could finish Gahanna's playoff run.
Moyer and McNamara
Moyer will start practicing with his AAU team this weekend and will be touring Italy, France and Switzerland with Team Ohio later this month.
His mom, Annette Moyer, said the family had a chance to talk with McNamara when he visited last week. The SU assistant told the Moyers the scholarship numbers will likely "work out" so that Matthew can attend Syracuse.
NCAA sanctions will limit SU by three basketball scholarships per year for four seasons starting in 2016-17.
...
SU Basketball Beat Writers Assess Performance of Up-And-Down 2014-15 Orange Team (DO; Staff)
2014-15 SU Basketball Team Report Card (sujuiceonline.com; Cheng)
Now that the 2014-15 season is over, it’s a good time to give out our grades for this year:
Rakeem Christmas: How many players have improved over four years like Christmas? He leaves Syracuse as one of its most polished big men ever, and should have a good shot at making an NBA roster. He led the team in points (17.5), rebounds (9.1) and blocks (2.5). Grade: A+
Trevor Cooney: The mercurial guard’s season resembled a bell curve. Cooney started the season 9-33 from beyond the arc before starting a torrid 34-72 clip at the end of non-conference play and into the early part of the ACC. But Cooney struggled with a tight back toward the end of the season, and finished just 30.9 percent from downtown. Will he ever find consistency? Grade: B-
Michael Gbinije: After Gbinije dropped 27 points in a Valentine’s Day loss to Duke, Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Gbinije had developed into the player Duke always though he’d be. That Duke game was part of a six-game stretch where Gbinije averaged 20.5 points per game. He also ended up being SU’s best outside shooter, making 39 percent of his 3s. The question is, can he do it on a nightly basis? Grade: B+
Chris McCullough: Before tearing his ACL 16 games into the season, McCullough was averaging 9.3 points and 6.3 rebounds, but his flaws were evident. He was far too lean to play on the interior and at times looked disinterested in what was going on in front of him. McCullough will return sometime in December, and could be one of the best players in the ACC next year. Grade: INC
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Other
Save the Moody Mile: An Upstate Movement Born in Small Racing Communities (PS; Kirst)
Corky Stockham doesn't want anyone to get him wrong. He's not trying to feud with any politicians. He understands that sometimes change has to come.
Yet Stockham said anyone who's been around this region for a lifetime knows an elemental truth about Central New York:
"We all want progress, but so many times we get what we call progress and we remember when this was this, and that was that, and we loved it, and now it's gone."
His fear: That's about to happen to Super DIRT Week.
Stockham publishes the Bridgeport-based National Parts Peddler, a well-known racing trade publication. He had a booth Saturday at the Motorsports Expo 2015 in the Center of Progress Building, at the state fairgrounds. The space was crowded with gleaming race cars, racks of racing suits, tables heavy with automotive tools, countless racing T-shirts.
Everyone knew Stockham, who loves to shoot the breeze. He wandered toward the north end of the building, where Brian Pokorny carried a clipboard, near a big red-and-black banner that shouted, "Save the Moody Mile."
The mile is the historic dirt oval by the grandstand at the fair, a track that's hosted auto racing since the early 20th century. Pokorny's Flag2 Flag Racing provides digital classified listings for the sport. He said he was stunned two weeks ago when acting state fair director Troy Waffner said the 2015 Super DIRT Week -- the autumn racing extravaganza at the fairgrounds -- could be the last, at least for Syracuse.
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