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.
Michael Carter-Williams is a projected lottery pick and will likely declare in the next couple of weeks. The team won and lost based on how Carter-Williams played.
As the NCAA’s late signing period nears, one question looms in the minds of college hoops fans everywhere: whose jersey will Andrew Wiggins be wearing in the fall?
Any time your team makes the Final Four, you deserve an A. Though Boeheim’s team may have seen a late season collapse, especially following the 61-39 loss to Georgetown, Boeheim did some of the best coaching of his career after that.
There were a couple of controversial calls that went against Syracuse. The first came with 1:40 left and Trey Burke appeared to push off Michael Carter-Williams with his right elbow, but Carter-Williams was whistled for a block.
In what has become one-part comedy, one-part redundancy, Jim Boeheim reaffirmed he was returning for his 38th season as head coach of Syracuse following Syracuse’s 61-56 loss to Michigan on Saturday night in the national semifinals.
A pair of Tim Hardaway Jr. free throws and a charge call on Michael Carter-Williams that fouled him out of the game. From there, Michigan was just good enough at the line to hang on.