Donna Ditota
Basketball Writer at The Post-Standard
Basketball writer for The Post-Standard, syracusedotcom. AP voter. Former basketball Bonnie. Golden Retriever enthusiast. Newspaper lifer. Very slow runner.
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6 days ago |
syracuse.com | Donna Ditota
Syracuse, N.Y. – When Adrian Autry was considering his options in the transfer portal this spring, the primary characteristics he sought were athleticism and positional size. Those factors, he said, drove the way he and his staff evaluated players and focused attention on which guys they would recruit to play at Syracuse in 2025-26. When the Orange men played good teams last season, the SU head coach said, they encountered bigger, more athletic players.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Donna Ditota
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse will play Pittsburgh and North Carolina home and away in men’s basketball this season. Pittsburgh is SU’s traditional home and away partner. UNC is this year’s rotating home and away opponent. The Orange will not play Stanford at all. Dates and game times will be revealed at a later date. Here are the matchups:Home: California, Clemson, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pitt, SMU, Virginia Tech.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Donna Ditota
Syracuse, N.Y. – At Dominican High School this year, students who attended boys basketball games started a countdown to history. Aaron Womack III kept inching closer to the school’s all-time scoring record of 2,193 set by Diamond Stone, who would go on to star at Maryland. But as the milestone seemed right there, right within Womack’s grasp, he would make a pass to allow a teammate in better position a chance to score. The countdown could wait.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Donna Ditota
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Tiefing Diawara, a 7-foot center from Mali, will join Syracuse’s basketball program and play for the Orange in 2025-26. Diawara chose the Orange over Kansas State and Baylor. Diawara, 19, plays for Team Herro on Nike’s EYBL summer circuit, where he’s averaged 4.4 points, 6.8 rebounds and 0.9 blocks in about 18 minutes of game action. He spent the past year at DME Academy at St. John’s Northwestern in Delafield, Wisconsin, just outside Milwaukee.
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2 weeks ago |
syracuse.com | Donna Ditota
Syracuse, N.Y. – His team cycled through three coaches. Various teammates came and went, either on their own or because they were asked to leave. Goettingen finished with a 3-29 record, the losses piling up in numbing numbers. The misery of the season meant the team would be relegated to a lower league for 2025-26. “It really was a tough year,” Jimmy Boeheim said Tuesday of his season with Goettingen in the German BBL.
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That means ACC teams will now have to find two non-con games to fill their likely already built non-con schedules.
Sources: ACC ADs have officially approved moving to an 18-game schedule in basketball, sources tell @CBSSports. League had been on a 20-gamer since 2019-20 (save the COVID year). Decision was made in part because the ACC only sent four of its 18 teams to the men’s NCAAT this yr.
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