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    • Articles, Syracuse

    SONY DSCBy SEVE COUSINS & ADAM ZAGORIA

    WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Syracuse didn’t play a basketball game on Sunday, but the Orange got two big wins in New Jersey.

    Tyler Roberson and Tyler Ennis — two of the five players signed to the Orange for 2013 — both won MVP awards at the Hoop Group Showcase at West Orange High School.

    The 6-foot-8 Roberson went for 20 points and nine rebounds as Roselle Catholic beat Pope John XXIII, 71-58, and the 6-2 Ennis had 20 points as St. Benedict’s, No. 15 in the USA Today poll, crushed Wilbraham & Monson, 57-39, in the day’s final game.

    The two Garden State players aren’t close friends, but Ennis, a point guard, is looking forward to playing with Roberson next season.

    Articles, Georgetown

    SONY DSCWEST ORANGE, N.J. — Reggie Cameron signed on to play college basketball at Georgetown with the expectation that he would compete in the Big East Conference.

    But now of course Georgetown is one of seven Catholic schools that has said “peace out” to the Big East and will leave the conference by June 30, 2015 — at the latest.

    So where does that leave the 6-foot-8 Cameron — Georgetown’s lone signee in the Class of 2013 — and his future Georgetown teammates going forward?

    “The seven Catholic schools that will all be in it together, those are seven really good schools right there,” Cameron told SNY.tv after scoring 14 points as Hudson (N.J.) Catholic beat St. Peter’s Prep, 64-46, at the Hoop Group Showcase at West Orange High School. 

    Articles, Big East

    It’s official.

    The seven Big Priest schools have opted to cut ties with the Big East and strike out on their own, although Big East spokesman Chuck Sullivan told SNY.tv the “effective date” for the schools leaving is June 30, 2015.

    It is possible the seven schools could leave before that date, just as Syracuse and Pittsburgh negotiated early exits from the Big East prior to the 27-month exit period.

    “We would like to do it whenever is best for all concerned,” St. John’s President Father Donald J. Harrington said on a conference call. “We really want to be good colleagues as we leave. St. John’s, I’m speaking for now, but I’m sure the other presidents would feel similarly.

    “And so if we as Presidents sit down with the football presidents and come to the conclusion that X date is the best time, that’s when we would want to do it.”

    Articles, Big East

    The Catholic seven — aka the “Big Priest” — would be dropping a set of schools with low Sagarin power ratings by breaking out and forming a new conference, according to a column by Nate Silver in the New York Times.

    Here’s a portion of Silver’s column:

    Over the past 10 years, the average rating for the six major college basketball conferences has been 80 points or higher, ranging from 80.65 points (the Pac-12) to 83.11 (the Atlantic Coast Conference.). In contrast, no midmajor conference has had a rating higher than 77.96.

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