The Syracuse Orange appeared poised to be one of a handful of teams to have a say in deciding millions of brackets across the country. Unfortunately for Orange Nation, that was not the case.
On SNY’s GEICO SportsNite, Jeane Coakley talks one-on-one with CJ Fair about the good start to the Tournament for Syracuse and the matchup with Dayton.
Isaiah Briscoe has justified all the hype around him with his tournament heroics and he is playing as well as anyone in the state right now. But he will be facing one of the best defenses in New Jersey.
Tolly James is already preparing for his final year of high school ball and is hoping to attract the attention of a few more programs, specifically LSU and Syracuse.
Down the stretch Archbishop Carroll big men Derrick Jones and Ernest Aflakpui scored 13 of their team’s final 17 points en route to a 59-55 victory over Abington Heights.
Players were selected for the Jordan Brand Classic set for April 18 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Monday. From the New York/New Jersey area, Syracuse commit Chris McCullough of IMG Academy was selected.
With the basketball season coming down to a win-or-go-home scenario, Isaiah Briscoe propelled Roselle Catholic over Trenton Catholic in the semifinals of the New Jersey Non-Public South B bracket of the state tournament, 70-50.
Derrick Jones, the Patriots’ junior star, was held without a field goal in the second half and finished with 11 points. He scored his 1,000th career point on a fourth-quarter free throw.
Syracuse will try for the second time this year to defeat a conference foe at home and then sweep them on the road when they travel to Pittsburgh to face the Panthers.