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For the second straight game, Fair notched a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. He had a nifty alley-oop from Brandon Triche for a basket plus a foul as he spun in the air to avoid Stephen Spinella.
Syracuse will face a challenge against West Virginia’s high-powered offense, the SU football captains said Saturday night during Syracuse basketball’s win over Monmouth.
Rick Callahan will likely be the acting head coach. SU fans may remember Callahan as a graduate assistant at Syracuse in 1980 and as an assistant coach in 1981.
I don’t think Grant should be taking more than one 3 a game (he took 3). But he was great otherwise getting inside for a couple of impresive dunks and finished with 9 points and 5 boards.
Fair had turned in a few lackluster performances recently, and was settling for his outside jumper. Tonight, he had plenty of buckets inside, and also collected a career-high 13 rebounds.
The Orange jumped out to an early 11-2 lead, and it would balloon to 42-26 after a pair of dunks from Rakeem Christmas with 3:46 left in the first half.