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    • Articles, Syracuse


    As it turns out, the key to Syracuse making another Final Four run may have less to do with Fab Melo’s conditioning or Dion Waiters’s maturity than it does with whether Scoop Jardine can accept a new role.

    For the second time in three nights, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim closed out a victory behind the hot hand of the sophomore Waiters at the point instead of the senior Jardine. Scoop watched from the bench for the final 7 minutes, 51 seconds of No. 5 Syracuse’s 69-63 victory over Stanford in the title game of the Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Tip Off Classic at MSG.

    Articles, South Kent

    As first reported last week by FiveStarBasketball.com, South Kent’s Chris Thomas, the Rivals No. 1 shooting guard in the Class of 2013, has a top three of Xavier, Kentucky and Florida.

    In an extensive interview Friday with SNY.tv, Thomas’s grandmother, Latonia Smith, expanded upon those three schools.

    “With Chris, he really likes Xavier because the assistant coach, Rasheen Davis,” Smith told SNY.tv. “He really likes the way Rasheen communicates with him and encourages him and is always in his corner, so he really likes that about him.”

    Articles

    Between Kyrie Irving, Dexter Strickland and Derrick Gordon, Kevin Boyle has coached some elite guards in recent years.

    Now that he’s moved to Montverde (Fla.) Academy, Boyle has another top one in 2013 point guard Kasey Hill.

    “He’s terrific,” Boyle told SNY.tv by phone Friday. “He’s dynamic. He can get to the basket and dunk in traffic on people. I mean, very few guys get to Kyrie’s level, and he’s not, but he’s definitely a Top 10 in the junior class in America and has a chance if he keeps working and gets better to be in the league.”

    Articles, Xavier

    Count Xavier assistant Rasheen Davis among the top recruiters in the nation.

    Davis is the man responsible for getting Dakari Johnson, the No. 1 player in the Class of 2014 according to The Hoop Scoop, on campus for a second time this weekend. The news was first reported by Alex Kline of The Recruit Scoop.

    Johnson is on campus Friday night for the game against Georgia while he visits family in the area, Montverde coach Kevin Boyle told SNY.tv.

    Articles, UConn

    If Central Florida is indeed headed to the Big East, they just showed they can play with the big boys.

    UCF scored the biggest win in program history Friday when Marcus Jordan and Keith Clanton each scored 20 points to key a 68-63 win over No. 4 UConn in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament.

    “It ‘s a huge win for our school,” UCF coach Donnie Jones said, according to the Orlando Sentinel. “…Right now, I’m really happy for that as well as our kids.”
    Notre Dame

    Notre Dame suffered a huge loss Friday when co-captain Tim Abromaitis suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee at morning practice.

    Abromaitis had played in two games and was averaging 14.0 points and 7.0 rebounds. He had missed Notre Dame first four games due to misunderstanding of a technicality in an NCAA rule governing seasons of competition that dated back to the 2008-09 campaign when he played in the first two exhibition of his sophomore campaign and then sat out the remainder of that season.

    In his first return back to the Irish lineup in Notre Dame’s 87-58 loss to Missouri in the semifinals of the CBE Classic in Kansas City, Mo., the fifth-year senior scored 22 points and grabbed eight rebounds.

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