Elijah Barnwell is being recruited by multiple teams across the country including Boston College, Pitt, Penn State, Maryland, Syracuse, UConn, UMass and Old Dominion.
No. 11 seed Dayton stunned No. 3 seed Syracuse on Saturday night to progress to the Sweet 16, 55-53. Tyler Ennis led the Orange offensively, scoring 19 points. C.J. Fair scored 14 points and Michael Gbinije added eight points off the bench to end Syracuse’s season for the year.
Cooney scored 18 points, fellow guard Tyler Ennis had 16, and the Orange defense clamped down in a 77-53 victory over Western Michigan on Thursday in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Isaiah Briscoe has justified all the hype around him with his tournament heroics and he is playing as well as anyone in the state right now. But he will be facing one of the best defenses in New Jersey.
Despite their struggles in the last month, the Syracuse Orange still merited a 3-seed in the NCAA Tournament and, while they did not end up in the East Regional, they still start off in nearby Buffalo, New York.
Well, the ACC sent an even stronger message on Friday morning when Pete Thamel of SI.com reported that the ACC is finalizing a deal that would bring the ACC tournament up to the Barclay’s Center.
Does anyone want the one seed in the east? Up until a few weeks ago, everyone just presumed that Syracuse wouldn’t have to leave New York State on its way to the Final Four.
It’s no coincidence that director Ezra Edelman, in his upcoming ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, Requiem For The Big East starts—and ends—with Syracuse’s final game against Georgetown in the 2013 Big East Tournament.
Sunday afternoon, Jerami Grant returned to the Syracuse lineup, logging more minutes against Florida State than he had in the previous three games combined.