Orange Scouting Report Threepoints

SYRACUSE (28-1, 15-1) AT CONNECTICUT (17-10, 7-8) • 9 p.m. • Gampel p a v i l i o n • e S p n ORANGE SCOUTING REPORT Dennis nett / The post-Standard WHO’SHOT Click the links below for more Syracuse C.J. FAIR put together a complete game in Syracuse’s basketball coverage on 56-48 win over South Florida on Wednesday. He had 13 points, six rebounds, five steals and three assists. He’s averaging 15.2 points in SU’s last four games. » Videos » Photo galleries THREEPOINTS » Live game updates Observations from an assistant coach familiar with the » The Orange Connecticut Huskies: Basketball blog with The Post-Standard’s “Will Syracuse be able to create turnovers? Mike Waters and It’s harder to get turnovers on the road and Donna Ditota facebook.com/PostStandard Join the conversation at the conversation Join 1 Connecticut’s got good ball-handlers with » Bud Poliquin, The Shabazz Napier, Jeremy Lamb and Ryan Boatright.” Post-Standard’s sports columnist “Syracuse can’t get killed on the boards. Connecticut’s got a lot of bigs. Andre Drummond » Mike’s Mailbox has and Alex Oriakhi are good offensive rebounds. answers to your SU 2 basketball questions Syracuse has to keep the rebounding totals within The Post-Standard reason.” » Follow @PSBasketball on Twitter “Connecticut is a horrible 3-point shooting team. POWERING » Subscribe to the They’re last in the league. And I don’t know why. Orange Scouting 3 But if Lamb and Boatright start hitting threes, Report find us find us find us find us find us find Syracuse is in trouble.” SYRACUSESTATS CONNECTICUT GP-GS Min. FG% 3FG% FT% Reb PF A TO Blk ST Pts STARTERS 32-Joseph 29-29 31.1 43.4 36.4 75.9 5.0 1.7 1.7 1.2 0.7 1.3 14.0 11-Ryan 3-Waiters 29-0 23.5 47.6 33.3 67.4 2.2 1.7 2.6 1.3 0.3 2.0 11.9 Boatright 5-Fair 29-3 27.2 47.6 30.0 74.7 5.5 1.4 1.0 0.8 0.5 1.2 9.3 Fr., 6-0, 160 10.2 ppg, 3.8 apg 20-Triche 29-29 22.1 41.9 36.1 83.6 2.4 1.3 2.7 1.4 0.1 1.1 9.2 The freshman 11-Jardine 29-29 24.3 49.5 36.4 50.0 2.3 0.8 5.0 2.1 0.1 1.4 8.9 has missed 51-Melo 26-26 24.3 56.4 0.0 66.0 5.5 3.0 0.5 1.5 3.1 0.5 7.7 nine games 43-Southerland 29-0 15.1 45.4 31.0 66.7 2.9 1.2 0.4 0.3 0.8 0.9 6.6 this season 1-C-Williams 22-0 11.4 42.9 37.5 57.1 1.6 1.0 2.2 0.7 0.3 0.8 3.0 due to NCAA issues, but 25-Christmas 29-29 11.1 57.1 0.0 61.5 2.8 1.8 0.2 0.7 0.7 0.3 2.8 he’s making 12-Keita 28-0 12.4 77.1 0.0 75.0 2.5 1.9 0.1 0.4 1.0 0.2 2.5 42 percent of SU totals 47.2 34.5 69.7 35.3 15.3 16.2 10.4 7.2 9.9 76.1 his 3-point attempts. Opponents 38.5 31.1 67.1 36.2 17.5 13.6 17.2 2.5 5.3 60.3 3-Jeremy KEY home away neut KEYHUSKY Lamb So., 6-5, 180 Shabazz NapieR is a 6-foot-1 sophomore guard who 17.9 ppg, 4.7 rpg averages 12.7 points and 5.8 assists. Lamb erupted CONNECTICUT’SLAST5 Assistant’s take: “Jeremy Lamb’s an NBA talent, but for 32 points in Shabazz Napier is the critical guy for UConn. When UConn’s 73-70 at Louisville L 59-80 Napier’s playing well, he gets into the lane and creates overtime win over Villanova at Syracuse L 67-85 open shots for Lamb or short lobs to Andre Drummond and Alex Oriakhi. He’s a better shooter than given on Monday. DePaul W 80-54 credit for, too.” Marquette L 64-79 at Villanova (OT) W 73-70 CONNECTICUTBENCH 22-Roscoe Shabazz Napier didn’t start against Villanova, but it Smith would be no surprise to see him tonight. Tyler Olander, So., 6-8, 205 SYRACUSE’SLAST5 a 6-9 sophomore, has started several times this season. 3.7 ppg, 3.3 rpg Smith’s Georgetown (OT) W 64-61 STRAYFACT numbers are way down Connecticut W 85-67 Brandon Triche, who is arguably Syracuse’s best 3-point from last year. at Louisville W 52-51 shooter, has been struggling from outside the arc for He’s been in the past six games. In SU’s first 23 games, Triche was and out of the at Rutgers W 74-64 33-for-82 (40 percent) from 3-point range. In SU’s last starting lineup. South Florida W 56-48 six games, Triche is 2-for-15 (13.3 percent). 34-Alex Oriakhi Jr., 6-9, 240 SUMMER NEVER ENDS AT BIG SPORTS CENTERS 6.8 ppg, 4.9 rpg THE GREAT INDOORS n e w Y o r k C e n t r a l Built for Oriakhi was M a g a z i n e a stalwart on UConn’s Sports national Central New York championship team. This year, he’s playing just 20 Sports Fans. minutes per game. gerry mcnamara answers fans’ ONLY 10 questions orange lacrosse, hoops, A digital subscription the chiefs, 12-Andre anD joe paterno runs$ 99 to CNY Sports Drummond Fr., 6-10, 270 Doug marrone Magazine makes the on su football’s Deep PER YEAR 9.9 ppg, 7.6 rpg flaws anD how he after a hot start, plans to fix them how far can this9 perfect gift. Drummond has team go in march? PR_AP_ORANGE_INSIDER_5_5 FOUR ISSUES NBA potential. He should be a lottery pick. He’s learning how to play To order, go to www.syracuse.com/magazines with his back to the basket. .

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