Mike Waters
College Hoops Writer at The Post-Standard
College Hoops Writer at Syracuse.com
College hoops writer at https://t.co/M3MDzFmdKj and the Post-Standard. Past-President of US Basketball Writers Assn. UNC grad. Lucky husband. Proud father of 2.
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2 days ago |
syracuse.com | Mike Waters
Syracuse, N.Y. – In putting together a roster for the 2025-26 season, Syracuse coach Adrian Autry and his staff hit the transfer portal with more preparation and more money to pay players than a year ago. Of Syracuse’s six transfers, four come from schools in Power-Five conferences. Five, if one counts Nate Kingz, a wing from former Pac-12 member Oregon State, in that group.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Mike Waters
Syracuse, N.Y. – Luke Fennell announced his decision to play basketball at Syracuse University last October. In the seven months since then, Fennell split the 2024-25 season between playing for Victoria in Australia’s Under-20 league and at Basketball Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Canberra, located about seven hours of his family’s home in Melbourne. But even though he was on the other side of the globe, Fennell kept close tabs on the Orange.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Mike Waters
Syracuse, N.Y. ― Syracuse women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack filled one of two openings on her staff with an addition who brings extensive head coaching experience to the job. On Thursday, Legette-Jack announced the hiring of Natasha Adair as SU’s associate head coach. Adair has been the head coach at Arizona State, Delaware, Georgetown and the College of Charleston. “We are excited to have Natasha Adair join our Orange Family,” Legette-Jack said in a statement.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Mike Waters
Syracuse, N.Y. – Ben Wisniewski had just finished working at a basketball camp near Lake Garda in Northern Italy. Wisniewski was the coach at DME Academy at St. John’s Northwestern in Delafield, Wisconsin, but prior to taking the job, he had lived and coached in Europe. During that time he had gotten to know the coaches at Orange 1 Basket, a club located in Bassano, Italy. So he decided to make the 2-hour drive to Bassano. There he spotted Tiefing Diawara, then just 17 years old.
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1 week ago |
syracuse.com | Mike Waters
Syracuse, N.Y. ― Syracuse’s schedule for the 2025-26 basketball season isn’t out yet, but sources confirm that the Orange won’t face one of its most-hated rivals this year. Syracuse and Georgetown; two of the Big East’s standard-bearers for decades and rivals dating back to the dawn of the conference, will not face each other in the upcoming season. Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports first reported the news.
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