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The senior walk-on is a perfect 4-for-4 this season from downtown, and 7-for-7 in his SU career. Tomaszewski’s latest trey came with 1:49 left and put the Orange up 76-52 in Syracuse’s final non-conference game of the season.
Through 12 games this season, Melo has already scored more points than he did his entire freshman season. He’s nearly tripled his production across the line, and is averaging 6.6 points and 5.4 rebounds as opposed to 2.3 points and 1.9 rebounds his rookie year.
No. 1 Syracuse, coming off a win over Patriot League opponent Bucknell, will wrap up its non-conference schedule against Tulane, one of Conference USA’s surprising teams.