Orange Scouting Report

COLGATE (0-5) VS. SYRACUSE (6-0) • 7 P.M. • CARRIER DOME • ESPN360 • TK99.5 ORANGE SCOUTING REPORT LET’S GO ORANGE! 0% IS BACK ON 2010 JEEPS For 60 Mos COMMANDER Gloria Wright / The Post-Standard SYRACUSE’S ANDY RAUTINS (left) and Wesley Johnson (right) guard Columbia’s LIBERTY Noruwa Agho during the second half at the Carrier Dome November 27. THREEPOINTS Click the links below Syracuse has played more for more Syracuse GRAND games against Colgate than basketball coverage on 1 any other opponent. SU CHEROKEE leads the series 116-45. Cornell is second with 117 games against » Videos Syracuse. » Photo galleries The last time Colgate beat » Live game updates OR COMPASS and Syracuse Jim Boeheim 2 was a high school senior. » The Orange Colgate’s last win over the Basketball blog with PATRIOT for 48 Mos Orange came on Feb. 24, 1962. WHO’SHOT The Post-Standard’s In his two years at Mike Waters and Colgate sophomore Nick Iowa State, Wes Donna Ditota Pascale played with SU Johnson made » Bud Poliquin, The freshman Brandon Triche 3 31 percent of his Post-Standard’s sports on Jamesville-DeWitt’s 2008 3-point attempts. columnist state championship team. He’s 13-for-25 (52 percent) in six » Mike’s Mailbag has games at Syracuse. answers to your SU We Service ALL Makes & Models! TOTHEPOINT basketball questions ROUTE 481 • FULTON The Orange has another chance » Follow PSbasketball to put a game away early and on Twitter turn it over to the reserves in the » Subscribe to the 598-8118 second half. An active defense Orange Scouting will be the key to a double- Report www.par-k.com digit win. COLGATE SYRACUSE PRIMEMATCHUPSMALLFORWARD real-time 13-Kyle Roemer 4-Wes Johnson Sr., 6-3, 216 Jr., 6-7, 205 We call him the Three players rank in professional scorer. the top 10 in the Big He does a good job East in scoring and of scoring for them. rebounding: Johnson, He’s super-aggressive Luke Harangody and on the offensive end. Samardo Samuels. newsFAST! EASY! NOW! Local News POINTGUARD 1-Anthony Hill 23-Brandon So., 6-0, 160 Triche He’s a pass-first point Fr., 6-4, 198 guard. He looks to Triche continues get those guys into to learn. With two their offense and assists and three runs the team. turnovers against Columbia, he’s at 16 assists and 17 miscues for the season. SHOOTINGGUARD Business 12-Mike Venezia 1-Andy Rautins Jr., 6-1, 180 Sr., 6-4, 195 He’s a lights-out Rautins had five shooter. He’s hitting steals against close to 40 percent Columbia. He leads from 3 this year. all Big East players with an average of 4.0 pilfers per game this year. POWERFORWARD 33-Yaw Gyawu 00-Rick Jackson So., 6-5, 215 Jr., 6-9, 240 Politics A driver, slasher. He With 10 points and plays extremely hard nine boards vs. all the time. You’ll Columbia, Jackson get 100 percent fell one rebound shy effort from him every of his first double- time. double this season. He had four last year. CENTER 40-Ben Jonson 21-Arinze Sr., 6-6, 225 Onuaku A big body. Does a Sr., 6-9, 261 good job passing Onuaku’s 12 points It’s all there on: the ball for them. He against Columbia syracuse.com/news ducks in for position. included SU’s first six He needs position in in the second half. order to score. That sparked a 19-3 Discover the advantage. run. Post- Standard Media COLGATEBENCH Mitch Rolls is a freshman who’s probably their best point guard. He adds another In print and online. dynamic of shooting. Joe Hoban will come in and play extremely hard. He can move Roemer to power forward, which gives them four guys who can shoot from three. SYRACUSESTATS MIKE’SMAILBAG GP-GS Min. FG% 3FG% FT% Reb PF A TO Blk ST Pts Post-Standard basketball writer 4-W. Johnson 6-6 32.2 56.9 52.0 71.4 7.2 1.7 2.2 2.3 2.2 2.3 18.3 Mike Waters answers readers’ questions about the Orange, the 21-A. Onuaku 6-6 22.0 68.8 0.0 42.1 3.8 2.5 0.7 1.5 1.2 0.7 12.3 Big East, all of college basketball 25-B. Triche 6-6 20.8 60.5 31.2 62.5 1.8 1.3 2.7 2.8 0.0 1.0 11.2 and just about anything else. 1-A. Rautins 6-6 25.7 48.8 50.0 66.7 3.0 2.2 4.5 2.2 0.0 4.0 10.3 Submit your question to Mike at 11-S. Jardine 6-0 22.2 51.2 20.0 83.3 1.7 0.7 5.5 2.0 0.0 2.7 9.7 » [email protected] 00-R. Jackson 6-6 23.8 67.7 0.0 62.5 6.3 1.8 1.8 1.5 2.2 1.2 8.7 32-K. Joseph 6-0 26.8 41.0 27.3 70.8 5.3 1.5 2.2 1.3 0.7 1.8 8.7 After watching the 3-M. Jones 5-0 10.0 42.9 44.4 62.5 1.8 1.2 0.6 0.6 0.0 0.2 6.2 Q. SU-UNC game a couple of 43-Southerland 5-0 6.8 25.0 23.1 50.0 1.4 0.8 0.4 1.4 0.8 1.0 2.4 times since last Friday, I am still amazed by the first 10 minutes of 33-D. Riley 5-0 9.4 75.0 0.0 50.0 3.2 0.8 0.6 0.6 1.2 0.0 1.8 the second half. I believe it might 12-Lyde-Cajuste 1-0 4.0 0.0 0.0 50.0 2.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 be the second-best, 10-minute 2-N. Resavy 3-0 1.3 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7 stretch of SU basketball I’ve 13-G. Hoffman 3-0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 witnessed in recent history. The 24-B. Reese 5-0 3.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 greatest 10 minutes is the first 10 of the 2003 national title game SU totals 53.7 40.5 63.6 38.2 14.5 21.0 16.5 7.8 14.8 88.3 versus Kansas. After 10 minutes Opponents 37.0 29.7 64.8 37.8 19.7 15.0 21.8 1.8 9.0 63.3 Carmelo and company led Kansas 32-17. Am I missing another (big) game over the past 10-15 years COLGATEstats INSIDE LASTFIVEGAMES that had a more impressive 10 minute stretch? Pts Reb A THESTATS Colgate 13-K. Roemer 18.4 4.4 2.0 Syracuse leads the at Connecticut 63-77 — Scott D. 33-Y. Gyawu 15.8 4.0 0.6 Big East in steals Yale 55-65 with 14.8 per game. 12-M. Venezia 9.3 2.7 1.0 at TCU 63-76 Mike Waters: I’m sure there Four SU players are a thousand examples of 10 40-B. Johnson 5.2 4.4 1.6 rank in the top 10 at U-W Milwaukee 60-69 2-M. Rolls 4.0 3.0 4.4 great minutes of basketball, but in steals. St. Francis 65-66 3-J. Hoban 3.4 2.4 1.6 two games immediately jumped Syracuse to my mind. 1-A. Hill 3.2 1.8 1.8 Robert Morris 100-60 The first was rather obscure. 21-S. Melville 3.0 1.5 0.0 California 95-73 On Jan. 6, 2001, Pittsburgh led Syracuse by 14 points in the North Carolina 87-71 second half of a game at old Home Cornell 88-73 Fitzgerald Field House. The Away Columbia 85-60 Orange still trailed 58-53 with Neutral 8:18 remaining. Using a frenetic full- court defense, Syracuse held Pittsburgh scoreless for almost eight minutes. Syracuse scored 13 straight points before a Pitt free throw with 34 seconds left. Syracuse went on to win 71-66. The second is a little more memorable. Before Syracuse got CATCH IT IF to the 2003 NCAA title game, the Orange had to stage a huge rally to get past Oklahoma State in the YOU CAN. tournament’s second round. In roughly a 10-minute span bridging the first and second halves, Syracuse turned a 17-point deficit into a 40-39 lead with 15 minutes remain- A sports magazine ing. Bench players Josh Pace, Billy Edelin and Jeremy McNeil like no other. played key roles in the come- Built for Central back. Syracuse won 68-56. New York. Click here On sale at newsstands for more throughout CNY. of Mike Waters’ answers to your questions on syracuse.com ONTHECOURT They’ll go to a 2-2-1 press after made baskets to slow down the tempo. It’s not for steals or traps, it’s just to slow you down.

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