There were plenty of questions about Syracuse heading into the Maui Invitational. Boeheim worried about where the offensive would come from after a scare against St. Francis.
Jerami Grant was named an All-ACC Honorable Mention after averaging 12.1 points and a team-leading 6.8 rebounds per game. He was also named to the Maui Invitational All-Tournament Team after averaging 16.7 ppg, 5.3 rpg and 5 asts.
Next year’s Syracuse men’s basketball team has big shoes to fill. The departing quartet of CJ Fair, Tyler Ennis, Jerami Grant and Baye Moussa Keita played 58 percent of the team’s minutes and scored 63 percent of its points last season.
Syracuse men’s lacrosse fans need to adjust their expectations and definitions of success in an increasingly competitive landscape. The days of 22-straight Final Four appearances and national titles at least once every couple of years are long gone.
Though Syracuse was on the wrong side of this game, Boeheim’s ejection became an overnight sensation, and multiple memes of his jacket toss went viral.
Now that CJ Fair, Tyler Ennis and Jerami Grant have all moved on to professional ranks, who do you think will lead Syracuse basketball in scoring next year?
The confirmation by Orange AD Daryl Gross last week that all options are on the scheduling table, including contracting fellow league members as non conference opponents makes sense to solve that built in quirk, especially for the Syracuse scheduling philosophy.
In his only year at Syracuse, Tyler Ennis started all 34 games, averaging 12.9 points, 3.4 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 2.1 steals, while playing 35.7 minutes per game.
I think the Syracuse fan can accept Army but the Syracuse fan whose used to stamping their trip to the Final Four on Memorial Day is a little confused about Bryant.