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Rising Star Tyler Lydon Makes USA Under-18 National Team (PS; Carlson)
Despite a late invitation to USA Basketball's under-18 team training camp and a delayed arrival in Colorado Springs, Tyler Lydon was one of the 12 players named to the team by USA Basketball on Sunday. Lydon, one of four commits that currently give SU the top-rated recruiting class for 2015, continues to improve.
He's continuously climbed the board of recruiting rankings and now, after he was nearly overlooked for the 24-player training camp, Lydon emerged as one of the 12 best players. Lydon was invited to try out only after three players declined to attend for "personal reasons."
"I'm really excited about the team," said coach Billy Donovan, also the head coach at Florida. "As it is every year, it was a really hard selection process because only 12 guys can be on the team. We just tried not necessarily to take the 12 best players, we tried to take the guys that were going to make up the best team. We had the chance to look at this group for almost a week and all of them worked very, very hard. It's never easy when you've got to get down to 12 guys because for as hard as everybody has worked you almost want everybody to be on the team, but it doesn't work like that so it's always a challenge."
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JB on TE, JG and CJ (Podcast) (PS; Axe)*
Syracuse University men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim offered some strong opinions on the 2014 NBA Draft, including where his former players Tyler Ennis, Jerami Grant and C.J. Fair could end up getting picked and the process of them entering the draft, in a recent one-on-one interview in his office at the Carmelo K. Anthony Center in Syracuse.
What subject caused Boeheim to repeat the same line of his defense of Gerry McNamara being overrated?
"That's all complete bull (expletive). That's the most bull (expletive) thing I have ever heard when people say that."
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*=Rated MA for Mature Audiences
How Will Georgetown Handle Ticketing for New Series with Orange? (PS; Axe)
Clear as Mud
Now that Syracuse and Georgetown have renewed their rivalry, many SU fans in the Washington D.C. area are wondering if the Hoyas are going to try and pull a fast one with ticketing procedures again.
In recent years, Georgetown required a donation to the University or the purchase of tickets to other games in ensure access to SU-Georgetown tickets.
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Final Look at Results of SU Fan Voting for Players/Jersey Numbers (PS; Waters)
This past week, Syracuse fans were invited to vote on the best players to wear certain jersey numbers in the history of Syracuse basketball.
Some numbers didn't need a vote to establish which player was the best to wear that number.
Carmelo Anthony has a pretty strong hold on No. 15. Same for Lawrence Moten at No. 21 and Dave Bing at No. 22.
Billy Owens would have been a pretty easy choice for No. 30 as Pearl Washington would have been for No. 31.
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Other
Former FM and Wake Forest Forward Tyler Cavenaugh to Transfer (nbcsports.com; Phillips)
Wake Forest took a major blow on Friday as the Demon Deacons lost sophomore forward Tyler Cavanaugh to transfer. The news was first reported by SB Nation‘s Griffin Kurzius.
Cavanaugh averaged 8.8 points and 3.8 rebounds per game in his sophomore year as the 6-foot-9 forward also shot 42 percent from the field, 31 percent from three-point range and 79 percent from the free-throw line.
He was expected to be a starter this season under first-year head coach Danny Manning and it leaves Manning with a hole in the frontcourt for next season. A native of Albany, New York, Cavanaugh will have two seasons of eligibility remaining after likely sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer restrictions.
Former BC Commit Jeremy Miller Updates Status (nbcsports.com; Payne)
Jim Christian took over the Boston College program in early April. While leading scorer Olivier Hanlan decided to return to school, starters Ryan Anderson and Joe Rahon both transferred out.
The new BC coaching staff suffered another setback in May, when three-star 2015 commit Jeremy Miller, who had committed to Steve Donahue, decided to reopen his recruitment, leaving the Eagles without a player in its Class of 2015.
Since making that announcement, multiple teams have jumped into the mix for the 6-foot-9 power forward.
“My phone has been blowing up the entire time,” Miller toldNBCSports.com on Saturday afternoon. “Interest from Michigan, Wisconsin, Xavier, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech.”
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SU News
Rising Star Tyler Lydon Makes USA Under-18 National Team (PS; Carlson)
Despite a late invitation to USA Basketball's under-18 team training camp and a delayed arrival in Colorado Springs, Tyler Lydon was one of the 12 players named to the team by USA Basketball on Sunday. Lydon, one of four commits that currently give SU the top-rated recruiting class for 2015, continues to improve.
He's continuously climbed the board of recruiting rankings and now, after he was nearly overlooked for the 24-player training camp, Lydon emerged as one of the 12 best players. Lydon was invited to try out only after three players declined to attend for "personal reasons."
"I'm really excited about the team," said coach Billy Donovan, also the head coach at Florida. "As it is every year, it was a really hard selection process because only 12 guys can be on the team. We just tried not necessarily to take the 12 best players, we tried to take the guys that were going to make up the best team. We had the chance to look at this group for almost a week and all of them worked very, very hard. It's never easy when you've got to get down to 12 guys because for as hard as everybody has worked you almost want everybody to be on the team, but it doesn't work like that so it's always a challenge."
...
JB on TE, JG and CJ (Podcast) (PS; Axe)*
Syracuse University men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim offered some strong opinions on the 2014 NBA Draft, including where his former players Tyler Ennis, Jerami Grant and C.J. Fair could end up getting picked and the process of them entering the draft, in a recent one-on-one interview in his office at the Carmelo K. Anthony Center in Syracuse.
What subject caused Boeheim to repeat the same line of his defense of Gerry McNamara being overrated?
"That's all complete bull (expletive). That's the most bull (expletive) thing I have ever heard when people say that."
...
*=Rated MA for Mature Audiences
How Will Georgetown Handle Ticketing for New Series with Orange? (PS; Axe)
Clear as Mud
Now that Syracuse and Georgetown have renewed their rivalry, many SU fans in the Washington D.C. area are wondering if the Hoyas are going to try and pull a fast one with ticketing procedures again.
In recent years, Georgetown required a donation to the University or the purchase of tickets to other games in ensure access to SU-Georgetown tickets.
...
Final Look at Results of SU Fan Voting for Players/Jersey Numbers (PS; Waters)
This past week, Syracuse fans were invited to vote on the best players to wear certain jersey numbers in the history of Syracuse basketball.
Some numbers didn't need a vote to establish which player was the best to wear that number.
Carmelo Anthony has a pretty strong hold on No. 15. Same for Lawrence Moten at No. 21 and Dave Bing at No. 22.
Billy Owens would have been a pretty easy choice for No. 30 as Pearl Washington would have been for No. 31.
...
Other
Former FM and Wake Forest Forward Tyler Cavenaugh to Transfer (nbcsports.com; Phillips)
Wake Forest took a major blow on Friday as the Demon Deacons lost sophomore forward Tyler Cavanaugh to transfer. The news was first reported by SB Nation‘s Griffin Kurzius.
Cavanaugh averaged 8.8 points and 3.8 rebounds per game in his sophomore year as the 6-foot-9 forward also shot 42 percent from the field, 31 percent from three-point range and 79 percent from the free-throw line.
He was expected to be a starter this season under first-year head coach Danny Manning and it leaves Manning with a hole in the frontcourt for next season. A native of Albany, New York, Cavanaugh will have two seasons of eligibility remaining after likely sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer restrictions.
Former BC Commit Jeremy Miller Updates Status (nbcsports.com; Payne)
Jim Christian took over the Boston College program in early April. While leading scorer Olivier Hanlan decided to return to school, starters Ryan Anderson and Joe Rahon both transferred out.
The new BC coaching staff suffered another setback in May, when three-star 2015 commit Jeremy Miller, who had committed to Steve Donahue, decided to reopen his recruitment, leaving the Eagles without a player in its Class of 2015.
Since making that announcement, multiple teams have jumped into the mix for the 6-foot-9 power forward.
“My phone has been blowing up the entire time,” Miller toldNBCSports.com on Saturday afternoon. “Interest from Michigan, Wisconsin, Xavier, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech.”
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