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Biggest Adjustments Orange Must Make in 2015-16 (BR; Neuman!)
The Syracuse basketball team is going to look much different than it did last season. The Orange lost four players, and four new freshmen will take their place and join the returning players to round out the 2015-16 version of the team.
As is the case for every team every year, the Orange will have to make adjustments to maximize their success next season. Let's have a look at the biggest adjustments head coach Jim Boeheim and the rest of the Orange will have to make.
We will rank the entries based on how big of an adjustment each is and how much of an effect it can have on the team's success next fall.
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2014-15 Year in Review: SU Basketball (sujuiceonline.com; Auger)
Fifty years from now when Syracuse fans are perusing the annals of sports seasons past, the most recent chapters authored by the football and men’s basketball teams will certainly gather more dust than page turns. Both squads are guilty of crashing and burning this past year, although perhaps that’s a bit unfair to Jim Boeheim’s bunch. Boeheim and his staff have raised the level of the hoops program to one of the true elites over the past six seasons. Orange football fans are used to seeing the team struggle for the better part of the last decade. Both teams had reasons to be optimistic heading into the year but the train quickly derailed early in each season. (Check yesterday’s story for the scoop on the football team.)
The Orange started the season after suffering heavy losses on the personnel front. CJ Fair and Baye Moussa Keita had graduated while Tyler Ennis and Jerami Grant chased NBA dollars. Still, SU returned Trevor Cooney, Michael Gbinije, and Rakeem Christmas while welcoming freshmen Chris McCullough and Kaleb Joseph.
Lacking offensive firepower, struggling to shoot from beyond the arc, and introducing two freshmen to the art of zone defense, the Orange struggled early. Those struggles continued throughout the season. Syracuse lost seven games by 10 or more points including the last three of the year by a combined 45 points.
In-Home Visit with Battle Went Well (TNIAAM; Sigel)
Wednesday's in-home visit with Tyus Battle was a pivotal moment for the Syracuse Orange basketball program. Battle has become the most important recruit in recent memory for the program, and Jim Boeheim and Mike Hopkins continue to prove it.
Boeheim and Hopkins visited the Battle residence for just under two a hours, a source tells TNIAAM. The two sides have yet to schedule an official visit, but visiting Syracuse before committing "remains a priority," according to a source.
Expect an official visit next month, Gary Battle told Syracuse.com. Tyus intends to commit this summer, but that is subject to change. Gary Battle, Tyus' father, is on the record stating his son could commit at anytime, but hopes he'll have the process over with by June, according to Syracuse.com.
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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Remembers a 'Prefect' Day in CNY Little League (PS; Carlson)
Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred has gone from Central New York to downtown Manhattan, from the Rome Little League to a spacious floor near the top of a New York office building.
On Thursday, Manfred, who was born in Rome and is a Cornell graduate, hosted a meeting with the Associated Press Sports Editors in Manhattan, spending 60 minutes answering questions from reporters across the country.
Guests ate bite-sized BLTs and chicken pot pies as Manfred recalled one of his best baseball memories: a perfect-game clinching catch with his front teeth knocked out.
Manfred spent two years at Le Moyne College before transferring to Cornell and attending law school at Harvard. He remains a Syracuse basketball fan whose father had deep ties to the basketball community in Rome (N.Y.). He got his start with MLB in 1987, working in collective bargaining.
His baseball memories, however, started long before that.
The best of them, as Manfred remembered, came when he was either 10 or 11 years old, playing in the Rome Little League.
The story, one of his favorites, goes like this:
"I played in a Little League perfect game. A really good friend of mine to this day pitched that perfect game. I played shortstop. My brother actually played third base that day next to me. It was such an unusual event at that level. For all of us it was sort of a day in our lives that we remember even though I'm now 56 years old.
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Biggest Adjustments Orange Must Make in 2015-16 (BR; Neuman!)
The Syracuse basketball team is going to look much different than it did last season. The Orange lost four players, and four new freshmen will take their place and join the returning players to round out the 2015-16 version of the team.
As is the case for every team every year, the Orange will have to make adjustments to maximize their success next season. Let's have a look at the biggest adjustments head coach Jim Boeheim and the rest of the Orange will have to make.
We will rank the entries based on how big of an adjustment each is and how much of an effect it can have on the team's success next fall.
...
2014-15 Year in Review: SU Basketball (sujuiceonline.com; Auger)
Fifty years from now when Syracuse fans are perusing the annals of sports seasons past, the most recent chapters authored by the football and men’s basketball teams will certainly gather more dust than page turns. Both squads are guilty of crashing and burning this past year, although perhaps that’s a bit unfair to Jim Boeheim’s bunch. Boeheim and his staff have raised the level of the hoops program to one of the true elites over the past six seasons. Orange football fans are used to seeing the team struggle for the better part of the last decade. Both teams had reasons to be optimistic heading into the year but the train quickly derailed early in each season. (Check yesterday’s story for the scoop on the football team.)
The Orange started the season after suffering heavy losses on the personnel front. CJ Fair and Baye Moussa Keita had graduated while Tyler Ennis and Jerami Grant chased NBA dollars. Still, SU returned Trevor Cooney, Michael Gbinije, and Rakeem Christmas while welcoming freshmen Chris McCullough and Kaleb Joseph.
Lacking offensive firepower, struggling to shoot from beyond the arc, and introducing two freshmen to the art of zone defense, the Orange struggled early. Those struggles continued throughout the season. Syracuse lost seven games by 10 or more points including the last three of the year by a combined 45 points.
In-Home Visit with Battle Went Well (TNIAAM; Sigel)
Wednesday's in-home visit with Tyus Battle was a pivotal moment for the Syracuse Orange basketball program. Battle has become the most important recruit in recent memory for the program, and Jim Boeheim and Mike Hopkins continue to prove it.
Boeheim and Hopkins visited the Battle residence for just under two a hours, a source tells TNIAAM. The two sides have yet to schedule an official visit, but visiting Syracuse before committing "remains a priority," according to a source.
Expect an official visit next month, Gary Battle told Syracuse.com. Tyus intends to commit this summer, but that is subject to change. Gary Battle, Tyus' father, is on the record stating his son could commit at anytime, but hopes he'll have the process over with by June, according to Syracuse.com.
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Other
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Remembers a 'Prefect' Day in CNY Little League (PS; Carlson)
Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred has gone from Central New York to downtown Manhattan, from the Rome Little League to a spacious floor near the top of a New York office building.
On Thursday, Manfred, who was born in Rome and is a Cornell graduate, hosted a meeting with the Associated Press Sports Editors in Manhattan, spending 60 minutes answering questions from reporters across the country.
Guests ate bite-sized BLTs and chicken pot pies as Manfred recalled one of his best baseball memories: a perfect-game clinching catch with his front teeth knocked out.
Manfred spent two years at Le Moyne College before transferring to Cornell and attending law school at Harvard. He remains a Syracuse basketball fan whose father had deep ties to the basketball community in Rome (N.Y.). He got his start with MLB in 1987, working in collective bargaining.
His baseball memories, however, started long before that.
The best of them, as Manfred remembered, came when he was either 10 or 11 years old, playing in the Rome Little League.
The story, one of his favorites, goes like this:
"I played in a Little League perfect game. A really good friend of mine to this day pitched that perfect game. I played shortstop. My brother actually played third base that day next to me. It was such an unusual event at that level. For all of us it was sort of a day in our lives that we remember even though I'm now 56 years old.
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