Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse basketball team takes on the Albany Great Danes at 7 p.m., Tuesday in the JMA Wireless Dome.
The game will air on ESPN2.
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Second half
15:17 remaining: Syracuse 57, Albany 40
Carlos makes his way into the paint and finishes with the scoop at the hoop.
On the next play, Carlos finds a streaking Davis who finishes with the dunk in transition.
Davis soars up for the offensive rebound before going back up with the jump hook.
Carlos gets downhill and finishes again at the basket. Largest lead of the night for the Orange at 17.
Halftime: Syracuse 47, Albany 34
A major boost off the bench for Syracuse has helped them capture a double digit lead against the University of Albany.
The Orange have 22 bench points at the break. The majority of the scoring has come from guard Kyle Cuffe who has 10 points and is perfect from the field. Donnie Freeman, who came off the bench in this one, has six points.
Freeman did not start the game as a result of a personal issue. Coach Adrian Autry also elected to start freshman Elijah Moore for the first time this season.
The game had been close for the first ten or so minutes of action. But it was Syracuse who managed to continually get high percentage shots at the rim. They shot nearly 60 percent from the field in the first half, and a lot of that was due to SU’s shot selection. 34 points for the home team came in the paint.
If Albany has any chance of getting the win, they will have to find a way to slow down Syracuse’s offense. The Orange has 12 assists right now as a team. They average around 14 per game, so they are certainly operating at a high level right now on that side of the ball.
Albany guards Amar’e Marshall and Kheni Briggs each have seven to lead the Great Danes.
First half
Lampkin finds Freeman cutting down low for a dunk. The center is up to three assists so far.
Moore turns down the jumper and scores the reverse layup.
Lampkin tip-toes the baseline to finish from underneath the basket.
The big then finds a cutting Bell for the and-one finish.
3:49 remaining: Syracuse 38, Albany 28
Cuffe knocks down a pair at the line.
Eddie Lampkin throws a touch pass to Davis for the dunk.
Cuffe finishes with the contact in transition, up to ten points in the contest off the bench.
6:28 remaining: Syracuse 32, Albany 24
Carlos finds Freeman cutting for a two-handed slam dunk out of the time out.
The guard then gets to the rim himself and scores the layup.
Moore fakes out the defender with the shot fake before going up-an-under with the reverse layup.
Kyle Cuffe Jr. knocks down the triple in some rare early minutes.
Majstorovic deflects the pass, tracks it down the length of the floor before Freeman gets the ball and dunks it.
Cuffe knocks down his second triple of the game. Big boost off the bench for SU so far.
11:40 remaining: Syracuse 14, Albany 14
Freeman checks into the game with 14:38 remaining in the first half.
Davis bullies his way inside to finish off the drop-step move. Six early points for him.
Elijah Moore follows up his own missed shot, grabbed the rebound, and then went up for another jumper that he knocked down. He struggled last game after back-to-back games dropping career-highs.
Bell scores inside for his second basket.
Petar Majstorovic scores the short jumper from about 10 feet out.
Officials review an earlier 3 and change it to a 2-point basket.
15:54 remaining: Albany 9, Syracuse 7
Jyare Davis scores his first basket with a finish inside.
Three Syracuse turnovers in the first two and a half minutes against an Albany team that isn’t particularly stalwarts on the defensive end.
Jaquan Carlos finds Davis cutting baseline for the alley-oop slam over the defender.
Chris Bell knocks down his first 3 of the night. The Orange as a whole didn’t make a single triple in its last time out against Notre Dame.
Pregame
Update: 6:45 p.m.: Adrian Autry has shuffled his starting lineup, inserting Elijah Moore for Lucas Taylor and Jyare Davis for Donnie Freeman.
Freeman is not in the starting lineup as a result of a personal issue.
Syracuse (4-4) returns home to the Dome to face the University at Albany (6-4).
Despite the two programs being just two hours away, the last time they met was during the 2011-12 season. That matchup saw the Orange handily defeat the Great Danes, 98-74, and historically the series has followed that same trend. SU has won all eight prior matchups in a series that goes all the way back to 1918.
The Orange, however, haven’t been as successful in recent outings overall. They recently lost 69-64 against Notre Dame. The game was the second in a row without the services of guard J.J. Starling. Both Donnie Freeman and Jyare Davis scored 20 points a piece in the loss.
For UAlbany, they are coming off an 80-74 overtime loss to Boston University over the weekend. Offensively, this team can attack from a bunch of different angles. Four players average 10 or more points for the Great Danes, headlined by Byron Joshua who averages 13.6 points per game.
One Thing To Keep An Eye On: Can SU Stay Undefeated At Home?
Syracuse has played its best basketball on the Dome floor. All four of its wins this season have been at home. Although the injury to Starling will definitely be apparent at times offensively, the Orange will rely on its fans to give it the extra boost it needs to stay unbeaten at home.
