NEW YORK — Syracuse didn’t land top recruit Tobias Harris Thursday night, but the Orange did score a blowout victory over a Top 25 team that traveled 3,000 miles for the beatdown.
 
Before a huge pro-Orange crowd at Madison Square Garden that included former Syracuse great Derrick Coleman, the Orange dispatched No. 13 Cal, 95-73, to [...]

Once again it’s one of those days where I wish someone could clone me (like a sheep) and I could be in 2 or 3 places at once…Look at what’s going on today in the New York area:
12:30 – Knicks practice in Greenburgh,  N.Y. Knicks are coming off just their second win of the season last night in [...]

I wrote a feature on North Carolina freshman point guard Dexter Strickland that that you can read here on SNY.tv but there were a few items that didn’t make the story.
**First off, how about this loaded schedule that North Carolina has in the next couple of weeks? The defending NCAA champion Heels could play five [...]

Harrison Barnes took his recruiting announcement to a new level.
In a press conference at Ames (Iowa) High School, the 6-foot-6 Barnes sat at a table showcasing the insignias of each of his final six schools. He then praised each program before calling his final choice via Skype.
After the connection appeared to briefly drop out, Barnes [...]

Sometime after 4 o’clock Eastern Friday afternoon, Harrison Barnes is going to make some college basketball program very happy by announcing on ESPNU.
We don’t know which program because Barnes is keeping his cards very close to the vest.
Barnes, ranked No. 2 in the Class of 2010 by Rivals and out of Ames (Iowa) High, will [...]

Harrison Barnes, the No. 2 prospect in the Class of 2010, will announce his college choice on Friday at 4:10 p.m. Eastern in the Ames Iowa High School gym. The announcement will be telecast on ESPNU.
The 6-foot-6 Barnes has reportedly not ruled out any of the six schools he is considering — UCLA, Duke, North Carolina, [...]

C.J. Leslie is still plotting out his official visits and my not sign until the late signing period in the spring.
“He probably won’t sign until the spring. I can’t say for 100 percent sure,” Lisa Leslie, C.J.’s mom, said Saturday in a phone interview.
The 6-foot-8, 205-pound Leslie out of Raleigh (N.C.) Word of God Academy [...]

Harrison Barnes, the No. 2 recruit in the Class of 2010, will announce his college choice sometime this month, but exact plans are still being finalized.
“We’re still working out the details,” Judge Johnston, the Ames (Iowa) High School activities director, said Thursday morning by phone. “There’s a lot of stuff going on out there in [...]

C.J. Leslie’s high school coach says Leslie has a list of about 11 schools and that there is no clear leader at this point.
“C.J. is still wide open with his recruitment. He doesn’t have a strong leader,” Raleigh (NC) Word of God coach Erasto Hatchett said Friday. “He’s still entertaining about 10 schools as of right [...]

I caught up briefly this morning with Raleigh (NC) Word of God forward C.J. Leslie before he headed into school.
The 6-foot-8, 205-pound Leslie had an in-home visit Wednesday night with Seton Hall head coach Bobby Gonzalez and assistant Dermon Player.
“It was good. It was real good,” Leslie said.
Asked if he was planning an official visit [...]