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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1369088, member: 27"] [B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff8000]SU News[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][URL='http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2015/04/syracuse_basketball_coaches_offer_scholarship_to_2017_center_mohamed_bamba.html']Syracuse Offers Class of 2017 Center Mohamed Bamba (PS; Ditota)[/URL][/B] [I][URL='http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball']Syracuse basketball[/URL] coaches have offered a scholarship to 6-foot-10 Class of 2017 center Mohamed Bamba, his high school coach said. "He's one of those kids," said Westtown School coach Seth Berger, "who could be a Hall of Fame player and the President of the United States. He's incredibly intelligent, talented, long, athletic and grounded." Berger said Bamba, 17, measures at "at least" 6-10 and might not be finished growing. He can shoot the ball, Berger said, dribble, pass and perhaps most importantly for a teenager of his size, catch the ball. [MEDIA=twitter]544500427828781056[/MEDIA] "He's a really versatile kid who can shoot the three, dribble between his legs, catch a back-door pass and, of course, he'll block your shot, too," Berger said. The [URL='http://westtownschool.smugmug.com/US-Athletics/Winter/20150210-US-Boys-Basketball-v-/i-X5HhJBg']Westtown sophomore[/URL] and member of the PSA Cardinals EYBL team is from New York City but attends school in West Chester, Pa. ... [IMG]https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQz6P__OOlkG4pjH3ZH5JRxb4pHpho4S-G-OzW2Np5r1GYApoN[/IMG] [/I] [B][URL='http://dailyorange.com/2015/04/syracuse-basketball-alumni-team-up-for-the-basketball-tournament/']Syracuse Basketball Alumni Team Up for the Basketball Tournament (DO; Hyber)[/URL][/B] [I]Brandon Reese was in the middle of planning a trip to South America. Eric Devendorf was at Faegan’s Café and Pub. Josh Pace had just announced his retirement from professional basketball. Long gone were their days playing basketball for Syracuse. Or so they may have thought. Over the course of the past year, former SU team manager Kevin Belbey presented former Orange basketball players an opportunity to don the Syracuse colors once again — creating a “Syracuse Alumni” team in The Basketball Tournament, a national winner-take-all, single-elimination tournament for $1 million. With the help of Devendorf, Belbey recruited a squad that’s comprised of at least one player from each SU team from 2001–14: Reese, Pace, Hakim Warrick, Donte Greene, Rick Jackson, Baye Moussa Keita, Demetris Nichols and Devendorf. They see the tournament as one last chance to wear an Orange jersey. “That camaraderie within the Syracuse program is really big; it’s like a family-type atmosphere,” Devendorf said. “Getting back and playing with everybody is pretty exciting.” ...[/I] [IMG]http://imgick.syracuse.com/home/syr-media/width620/img/orangebasketball_impact/photo/17505767-mmmain.jpg[/IMG] [B][URL='http://Dave Smolnycki does it for the game of baseball. When he takes his seat in Section 204, Row 8 on Thursday he’ll be in attendance for the 45th-consecutive Syracuse Chiefs home opener. “I know nowadays, you need all the fancy stuff with the entertainment, but to me, it’s always been the game itself,” he said. But the number of fans like Smolnycki is steadily decreasing. Minor league baseball teams are having to rely on entertainment and promotions to bring fans out to the ballpark. As the Chiefs are set to have their home opener at NBT Bank Stadium on Thursday, the club will look to rebound from a season in which it placed last in the International League in attendance. But now second-year general manager Jason Smorol is confident that there’s a turnaround coming up. Smorol came to the Chiefs — the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals — with more than a decade’s worth of minor league baseball experience. When he took over in October 2013, Smorol had the mentality of being all about the fans and being “more minor league-y.”']Thomas Bryant Saw Syracuse Basketball as a Team in 'Chaos', According to Mother (PS; Carlson)[/URL][/B] [I] Coveted basketball recruit Thomas Bryant saw the [URL='http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball']Syracuse basketball program[/URL] as one in "chaos" due to NCAA scholarship restrictions, transferring players and struggles at the guard position, his mother, Linda, said Tuesday. Linda Bryant, who has been heavily involved throughout Bryant's recruiting process, said it was those differences, along with his belief that Indiana can win immediately, that ultimately led her son to pick the Hoosiers. Questions surrounding Syracuse's recruitment of Bryant, a Rochester native, have lingered for weeks, ever since Bryant told reporters at the McDonald's All-American Game that [URL='http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2015/03/prized_recruit_hasnt_heard_from_syracuse_since_january_says_hes_still_considerin.html']he hadn't talked to Syracuse coaches in two months.[/URL] Less than a week later, Bryant verbally committed to Indiana, spurning Syracuse, which once seemed like the leading contender for his services. Linda said the lack of communication wasn't a major factor in her son's decision, an indication that SU's coaches didn't drop the ball as much as they simply lost out to another national program. Syracuse coaches are unable to comment on Bryant's recruitment due to NCAA rules.[/I] ... [I]...[/I] [/QUOTE]

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