Most of their class of 2015 peers were playing in the 16-and-under National Championships on Saturday, but elite rising juniors Malachi Richardson and P.J. Dozier produced an exciting matchup in the 17-and-under Gold Super Showcase in the morning session.
Josh Perkins has cut his list to five schools, his father told SNY.tv Wednesday. The elder Perkins said they did not make the cut public because they didn’t want to draw a lot of attention to the list.
Isaiah Briscoe is an athletic scoring point guard in the class of 2015. And like many other young, skilled point guards with the ability to score, it appears Michigan and John Beilein’s system has become a destination in his mind.
It has been a recent theme for Syracuse basketball to have highly ranked center recruits disappoint in their freshman years. It takes big men longer to get used to the college game, the saying goes. This was certainly the case for Coleman.
The Orange, who has always struggled rebounding the ball because of its reliance on the zone, is 9th in the NCAA in rebounds per game, averaging 47.0 boards per contest.
In 37 games, Christmas averaged 2.8 points and 2.9 rebounds, falling perfectly in line with his predecessors. If Onuaku, Jackson and Melo are any indication, Christmas is in for a significant jump in production this season.