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Big Group of Former SU Basketball Players Play in SEED Charity Event in NYC (PS; Ditota)
Enough former players to form a complete Syracuse University team have committed to a charity event that raises money for kids (and basketball players) in Senegal.
Kris Joseph, James Southerland, C.J. Fair, Rakeem Christmas (pending NBA workouts), Brandon Triche, Scoop Jardine, Donte Greene, Baye Moussa Keita and Rick Jackson are scheduled to appear at Chelsea Piers on Manhattan's West Side on June 20 for the Assist NYC fundraiser. The event, in its second year, allows anyone who pays the entry fee a chance to play pick-up basketball with or against the SU guys.
Griffin Hoffmann, a former SU walk-on, conceived the idea last year with another Orange walk-on, Todd Burach. Last year, Hoffmann said, his Assist NYC organization raised "north of $10,000" for the Senegalese SEED (Sports for Education and Economic Development) project. "One hundred percent" of that money, Hoffmann said, went directly to the charity. Keita, the former SU center, is a graduate of the SEED program.
Hoffmann said information circulated among SU basketball alums about last year's event, which spurred interest.
"Last year, we did it quickly and more quietly. Not a lot of people knew about it," Hoffmann said. "This year, word got out more. The guys all saw that we had a nice SU reunion."
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Highly Regarded NIU AD Sean Frazier Not a Candidate for Syracuse Job (PS; Mink)
If a school is in the market for an athletic director, Sean Frazier's name is likely on a lot of wishlists.
The Northern Illinois AD is one of the hottest young ADs in the country, and his name was recently linked to the opening at Pittsburgh, which used the same search firm Syracuse has hired to assist with its own search.
But Frazier will not be the next athletic director at Syracuse.
He said this week he has not been contacted by Syracuse or its search firm about the AD position.
He also said he has no interest in the job, citing his commitment to Northern Illinois and relatively recent arrival in DeKalb, Ill.
Landing Frazier would've been viewed as a home run hire in the eyes of many Syracuse supporters, and he understands why.
He's a football guy. He played at Alabama, coached at Maine and later spent six seasons at Wisconsin under Barry Alvarez, providing the financial resources to aid the Badgers' three-year Big Ten title run.
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Syracuse's Jim Boeheim coached Golden State guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson as well as Houston guard James Harden for the U.S. national team in the FIBA World Cup last summer. (AP Photo | Rick Bowmer)
NBA Finals Breakdown: JB Gives Golden State the Edge (PS; Waters)
When the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers meet in Game 1 of the NBA Finals tonight, Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim will be an interested observer.
Not just because Boeheim is a near-obsessive observer of the game, but because he has developed relationships with players on both the Golden State and Cleveland rosters.
As an assistant coach on the USA Basketball men's national team, Boeheim has worked with Cleveland's LeBron James and Kyrie Irving and Golden State's Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry.
Just last summer, Irving, Curry and Thompson played on the USA team that won the gold medal in the FIBA World Cup. In previous years, Boeheim has coached Cleveland's LeBron James in the Olympics and Golden State's Andre Igoudala in the World Championships.
» Time, TV information | Who will win the series?
"I root for the guys who played with (the U.S. national teams) but now there's a couple guys on each team,'' Boeheim said. "We had Andre with us. LeBron. Kyrie. And obviously Steph and Klay.''
Boeheim said Curry and Thompson played exceptionally well in last summer's FIBA World Cup.
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College Basketball News
NCAA Charges UNC With 5 Level 1 Violations in Notice of Allegations (nbcsports.com; Dauster)
North Carolina has posted their Notice of Allegations from the NCAA regarding the academic scandal that has plagued the school’s athletic programs in recent years, charging the athletic department with five Level I violations (the worst kind), including a lack of institutional control.
The men’s basketball and football programs get mentioned throughout the document, but the NCAA was able to dig up the most dirt on the women’s basketball team, and it’s not close. None of the men’s basketball staff members get specifically targeted with allegations — Roy Williams only has his name mentioned once, and that was in reference to the date he was interviewed — although they do fall under the lack of institutional control umbrella.
Before we get into some specifics, it’s worth noting that North Carolina was hit with a lack of institutional control charge regarding the way that the African Afro-American Studies department interacted the academic support staffs of the athletic teams, specifically Jan Boxill, the women’s basketball academic advisor. The other part of this that can get murky is that the academic fraud and the placement in so-called ‘paper classes’ were labeled as impermissible benefits not available to other students. In other words, the NCAA is saying that the violations committed by the athletic department were making the athletes aware of the ‘paper classes’ and helping them get into, and pass, those classes.
Here are the five allegations:
The 5-Star Recruiting Wars Between Duke and Kentucky Are Just Getting Started (sbnation.com; O'Donnell)
When Nike's EYBL tour rolled into Lexington, Ky., in late April to kick off spring evaluation period in the weird world of college basketball recruiting, St. Louis Eagles wing Jayson Tatum found himself as the star of the show.
This was nothing out of the ordinary for Tatum, who might be the most coveted high school basketball player in the country right now. As fans decked out in Kentucky blue sweatshirts packed into the cramped gym to watch Tatum play, the entire scene took on a bit of a surreal quality. The Wildcats are one of four schools Tatum is considering and everyone in the building knew it. They showed up not just to see Tatum play, but because they wanted Tatum to see them.
If the Wildcats' logo wasn't a prerequisite for admission into the event, it sure felt like it. In scanning the crowd, though, you would occasionally notice a few different shades of blue. Those would be the Duke fans who traveled to Lexington to let Tatum know that, hey, we care about you, too.
Tatum is the latest and perhaps most high profile example yet of the recruiting war that's being waged right now between the two most glamorous programs in college basketball, Duke and Kentucky. John Calipari and Mike Krzyzewski stand out over every other coach in the country when it comes to recruiting blue chip prospects, and it's what's made their programs the most successful in the sport.
Lest anyone wants to discount the impact of recruiting: Coach K's Duke team just won the national title by getting 60 of its 68 points from a foursome of five-star freshmen in the championship game. Calipari just got done coaching a Kentucky team with nine McDonald's All-Americans to the best start in the history of the sport at 38-0. Basketball is almost always decided by talent and no one attracts talent quite like Duke and Kentucky.
Calipari and Krzyzewski have been at this for a while now. Julius Randle once cut Duke from his list and chose Kentucky; Justise Winslow turned down a Kentucky offer to go to Duke. Many don't immediately think of Duke as a one-and-done powerhouse in the same vein as the Wildcats, but Coach K has repositioned himself to compete for top players with Calipari every year. Credit his USA Basketball experience in coaching the best players in the world or the realization that talent is always a safer bet than experience.
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DC Council Member Jack Evans Proposes a DC Big 6 Hoops Tournament Like Philadelphia's Big 5 (washingtonpost.com; Allen)
Maryland and Georgetown will renew their dormant college basketball rivalry this fall, when the Terps host the Hoyas at Xfinity Center on Nov. 17. D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) hopes the first meeting in the D.C. area between Maryland and Georgetown since 1993 might spark the renewal of some other local rivalries.
In April, Evans proposed a resolution in support of creating a local Big 6 college basketball tournament featuring American, Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, Howard and Maryland. D.C.’s Big 6 would be modeled after Philadelphia’s Big 5 of LaSalle, Pennsylvania, St. Joseph’s, Temple and Villanova. Those teams have played each other every year since 1955, except for an eight-season stretch in the 90s when the full round robin format was abandoned and each school played two Big 5 opponents per year.
“As conference realignment and television contracts make college basketball an increasingly more national competition, now is the time for our local institutions to come together and create a DC Big 6 tournament for seasons to come,” the resolution reads, in part.
Evans, who attended Big 5 games at the Palestra as an undergraduate at Penn in the 70s, says there would be several benefits to D.C. establishing a basketball tradition like the City of Brotherly Love’s.
“Sports are something I think are terrific because they’re a real unifier,” Evans, chair of the Committee on Finance and Revenue, said Wednesday. “They bring cities together, regions together, and they generate revenues for jurisdictions. As a person who grew up with the Big 5 in Philadelphia, there were no better basketball games. … I would like to see, given the basketball tradition in the District of Columbia and the region, a similar type of arrangement, where [D.C.’s Big 6] play each other either in a tournament style, or just during the regular season. I think it would mean a lot for the area to have these teams regularly playing each other.”
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Prime Real Estate for Taste of Syracuse
Taste of Syracuse 2015: Places to Find a Seat or a Table (PS; Johnson)
The ground work has been laid – menus, parking, music lineup – for Taste of Syracuse today and Saturday. Now we've completed the last bit of legwork, finding you a seat. We scouted for places to land while you eat and drink in and around Clinton Square. Some are obvious and others are in out-of-the-way places. Here's a list and take a look at photographs of the locations, above.
Big Group of Former SU Basketball Players Play in SEED Charity Event in NYC (PS; Ditota)
Enough former players to form a complete Syracuse University team have committed to a charity event that raises money for kids (and basketball players) in Senegal.
Kris Joseph, James Southerland, C.J. Fair, Rakeem Christmas (pending NBA workouts), Brandon Triche, Scoop Jardine, Donte Greene, Baye Moussa Keita and Rick Jackson are scheduled to appear at Chelsea Piers on Manhattan's West Side on June 20 for the Assist NYC fundraiser. The event, in its second year, allows anyone who pays the entry fee a chance to play pick-up basketball with or against the SU guys.
Griffin Hoffmann, a former SU walk-on, conceived the idea last year with another Orange walk-on, Todd Burach. Last year, Hoffmann said, his Assist NYC organization raised "north of $10,000" for the Senegalese SEED (Sports for Education and Economic Development) project. "One hundred percent" of that money, Hoffmann said, went directly to the charity. Keita, the former SU center, is a graduate of the SEED program.
Hoffmann said information circulated among SU basketball alums about last year's event, which spurred interest.
"Last year, we did it quickly and more quietly. Not a lot of people knew about it," Hoffmann said. "This year, word got out more. The guys all saw that we had a nice SU reunion."
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Highly Regarded NIU AD Sean Frazier Not a Candidate for Syracuse Job (PS; Mink)
If a school is in the market for an athletic director, Sean Frazier's name is likely on a lot of wishlists.
The Northern Illinois AD is one of the hottest young ADs in the country, and his name was recently linked to the opening at Pittsburgh, which used the same search firm Syracuse has hired to assist with its own search.
But Frazier will not be the next athletic director at Syracuse.
He said this week he has not been contacted by Syracuse or its search firm about the AD position.
He also said he has no interest in the job, citing his commitment to Northern Illinois and relatively recent arrival in DeKalb, Ill.
Landing Frazier would've been viewed as a home run hire in the eyes of many Syracuse supporters, and he understands why.
He's a football guy. He played at Alabama, coached at Maine and later spent six seasons at Wisconsin under Barry Alvarez, providing the financial resources to aid the Badgers' three-year Big Ten title run.
...
Syracuse's Jim Boeheim coached Golden State guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson as well as Houston guard James Harden for the U.S. national team in the FIBA World Cup last summer. (AP Photo | Rick Bowmer)
NBA Finals Breakdown: JB Gives Golden State the Edge (PS; Waters)
When the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers meet in Game 1 of the NBA Finals tonight, Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim will be an interested observer.
Not just because Boeheim is a near-obsessive observer of the game, but because he has developed relationships with players on both the Golden State and Cleveland rosters.
As an assistant coach on the USA Basketball men's national team, Boeheim has worked with Cleveland's LeBron James and Kyrie Irving and Golden State's Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry.
Just last summer, Irving, Curry and Thompson played on the USA team that won the gold medal in the FIBA World Cup. In previous years, Boeheim has coached Cleveland's LeBron James in the Olympics and Golden State's Andre Igoudala in the World Championships.
» Time, TV information | Who will win the series?
"I root for the guys who played with (the U.S. national teams) but now there's a couple guys on each team,'' Boeheim said. "We had Andre with us. LeBron. Kyrie. And obviously Steph and Klay.''
Boeheim said Curry and Thompson played exceptionally well in last summer's FIBA World Cup.
...
College Basketball News
NCAA Charges UNC With 5 Level 1 Violations in Notice of Allegations (nbcsports.com; Dauster)
North Carolina has posted their Notice of Allegations from the NCAA regarding the academic scandal that has plagued the school’s athletic programs in recent years, charging the athletic department with five Level I violations (the worst kind), including a lack of institutional control.
The men’s basketball and football programs get mentioned throughout the document, but the NCAA was able to dig up the most dirt on the women’s basketball team, and it’s not close. None of the men’s basketball staff members get specifically targeted with allegations — Roy Williams only has his name mentioned once, and that was in reference to the date he was interviewed — although they do fall under the lack of institutional control umbrella.
Before we get into some specifics, it’s worth noting that North Carolina was hit with a lack of institutional control charge regarding the way that the African Afro-American Studies department interacted the academic support staffs of the athletic teams, specifically Jan Boxill, the women’s basketball academic advisor. The other part of this that can get murky is that the academic fraud and the placement in so-called ‘paper classes’ were labeled as impermissible benefits not available to other students. In other words, the NCAA is saying that the violations committed by the athletic department were making the athletes aware of the ‘paper classes’ and helping them get into, and pass, those classes.
Here are the five allegations:
- 1. From 2002-2011, the school provided impermissible benefits to student-athletes in the form of “requesting certain course offerings within the AFRI/AFAM department on behalf of student-athletes, contacting individuals within the AFRI/AFAM department to register student-athletes in courses, obtaining assignments for classes taught in the AFRI/AFAM department on behalf of student-athletes, suggesting assignments to the AFRI/AFAM department for student-athletes to complete, turning in papers on behalf of student-athletes and recommending grades.” The NCAA also alleges that Independent Study classes were misrepresented, allowing 10 student-athletes to graduate with more than the allowable 12 Independent Study hours.
- 2. From 2007-2010, Boxill provided the women’s basketball team with a myriad of impermissible academic assistance, ranging from adding a conclusion or quotation into an athlete’s paper to turning the paper in for the player and requesting a specific grade.
- 3. and 4. Deborah Crowder, a former student services advisor in the African Afro-American Studies department, and Julius Nyang’Oro, a former professor in and chair of the African Afro-American Studies department, were both hit with ethical conduct charges as they refused to speak with the NCAA during the investigation.
- 5. This is the lack of institutional control charge, which specifically mentions the failure of the university to monitor the way that Boxill handled her academic counseling duties as well as the ‘paper classes’ in the African Afro-American Studies department, in which athletes were enrolled in a disproportionate number.
The 5-Star Recruiting Wars Between Duke and Kentucky Are Just Getting Started (sbnation.com; O'Donnell)
When Nike's EYBL tour rolled into Lexington, Ky., in late April to kick off spring evaluation period in the weird world of college basketball recruiting, St. Louis Eagles wing Jayson Tatum found himself as the star of the show.
This was nothing out of the ordinary for Tatum, who might be the most coveted high school basketball player in the country right now. As fans decked out in Kentucky blue sweatshirts packed into the cramped gym to watch Tatum play, the entire scene took on a bit of a surreal quality. The Wildcats are one of four schools Tatum is considering and everyone in the building knew it. They showed up not just to see Tatum play, but because they wanted Tatum to see them.
If the Wildcats' logo wasn't a prerequisite for admission into the event, it sure felt like it. In scanning the crowd, though, you would occasionally notice a few different shades of blue. Those would be the Duke fans who traveled to Lexington to let Tatum know that, hey, we care about you, too.
Tatum is the latest and perhaps most high profile example yet of the recruiting war that's being waged right now between the two most glamorous programs in college basketball, Duke and Kentucky. John Calipari and Mike Krzyzewski stand out over every other coach in the country when it comes to recruiting blue chip prospects, and it's what's made their programs the most successful in the sport.
Lest anyone wants to discount the impact of recruiting: Coach K's Duke team just won the national title by getting 60 of its 68 points from a foursome of five-star freshmen in the championship game. Calipari just got done coaching a Kentucky team with nine McDonald's All-Americans to the best start in the history of the sport at 38-0. Basketball is almost always decided by talent and no one attracts talent quite like Duke and Kentucky.
Calipari and Krzyzewski have been at this for a while now. Julius Randle once cut Duke from his list and chose Kentucky; Justise Winslow turned down a Kentucky offer to go to Duke. Many don't immediately think of Duke as a one-and-done powerhouse in the same vein as the Wildcats, but Coach K has repositioned himself to compete for top players with Calipari every year. Credit his USA Basketball experience in coaching the best players in the world or the realization that talent is always a safer bet than experience.
...
DC Council Member Jack Evans Proposes a DC Big 6 Hoops Tournament Like Philadelphia's Big 5 (washingtonpost.com; Allen)
Maryland and Georgetown will renew their dormant college basketball rivalry this fall, when the Terps host the Hoyas at Xfinity Center on Nov. 17. D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) hopes the first meeting in the D.C. area between Maryland and Georgetown since 1993 might spark the renewal of some other local rivalries.
In April, Evans proposed a resolution in support of creating a local Big 6 college basketball tournament featuring American, Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, Howard and Maryland. D.C.’s Big 6 would be modeled after Philadelphia’s Big 5 of LaSalle, Pennsylvania, St. Joseph’s, Temple and Villanova. Those teams have played each other every year since 1955, except for an eight-season stretch in the 90s when the full round robin format was abandoned and each school played two Big 5 opponents per year.
“As conference realignment and television contracts make college basketball an increasingly more national competition, now is the time for our local institutions to come together and create a DC Big 6 tournament for seasons to come,” the resolution reads, in part.
Evans, who attended Big 5 games at the Palestra as an undergraduate at Penn in the 70s, says there would be several benefits to D.C. establishing a basketball tradition like the City of Brotherly Love’s.
“Sports are something I think are terrific because they’re a real unifier,” Evans, chair of the Committee on Finance and Revenue, said Wednesday. “They bring cities together, regions together, and they generate revenues for jurisdictions. As a person who grew up with the Big 5 in Philadelphia, there were no better basketball games. … I would like to see, given the basketball tradition in the District of Columbia and the region, a similar type of arrangement, where [D.C.’s Big 6] play each other either in a tournament style, or just during the regular season. I think it would mean a lot for the area to have these teams regularly playing each other.”
...
Other
Prime Real Estate for Taste of Syracuse
Taste of Syracuse 2015: Places to Find a Seat or a Table (PS; Johnson)
The ground work has been laid – menus, parking, music lineup – for Taste of Syracuse today and Saturday. Now we've completed the last bit of legwork, finding you a seat. We scouted for places to land while you eat and drink in and around Clinton Square. Some are obvious and others are in out-of-the-way places. Here's a list and take a look at photographs of the locations, above.
- Perseverance Park on South Salina Street between Washington and Fayette streets.
- Robert Haggart Park at Clinton and West Genesee streets.
- Clinton Square, South Salina and West Water streets.
- James M. Hanley Federal Building, Clinton, Water, Washington and Franklin streets.
- Washington Street Garage, Washington and Franklin streets.
- Along Onondaga Creekwalk, West Fayette Street.
- Hanover Square, South Salina, Water and Warren streets.
- The plaza opposite National Grid building on Erie Boulevard West and Franklin Street.
- The plaza adjacent to City Hall Commons, Warren street between Water and Washington streets.
