Wes has worked for Rivals.com covering the New York Knicks, as well as for Scout.com covering Syracuse athletics. Wes has also been a contributing writer for the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), for SportsNet New York (SNY) as a news desk writer covering all of New York professional sports, and reported on the NBA and MLB for the New York Sportscene. A native of Long Island, New York, Wes graduated from Syracuse University in 2005 with a degree in journalism. Contact him at wes[at]sujuiceonline.com.
Post-Standard Syracuse basketball beat writer Mike Waters calls in to talk about the upcoming Syracuse basketball season with hosts Wes Cheng and Andrew Kouwe on The Juice on the Cuse podcast hosted by SNY.tv. The hosts also chat about their expectations for this year’s team.
Syracuse had another terrible day with penalties. They were flagged 12 times for a loss of 115 yards, and the penalties were responsible for the defense’s scoreless streak coming to an end.
The story of the game was obviously Trevor Cooney, who buried seven 3-pointers en route to a career-high 27 points. He did it on a dazzling display of 3s off the dribble, off screens and in transition.
Halfway through February last season, it looked like Cornell had a dark-horse shot at the Ivy title after sweeping the southern New England road trip at Yale and Brown to improve to 5-3 in league play.
The NCAA early signing period for basketball runs from Nov. 13-20, and even with Tuesday’s commitment by Trey Lyles to Kentucky, there’s still a slew of elite prospects and future NBA lottery picks left on the board.
Rashad Vaughn is still planning on signing in the spring, not the fall, despite reports to the contrary, Findlay Prep assistant coach Pete Kaffey told SNY.tv.
I had dinner with Jim Boeheim, talking to the Syracuse basketball players, talking to the staff. Just seeing the team up close and personally, I just think they’re so deep and they’ve got experience and they’ve got size.
Comparing any young Canadian player to Andrew Wiggins is inherently unfair, yet some of Canada’s best young players are being recruited by Syracuse, Georgetown and Boston College, among other major programs.