Inside Syracuse Basketball

Buddy Boeheim reflects on his dads 47 year coaching career leading up to Syracuse University celebrating Jim Boeheim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast, Syracuse legend Lawrence Moten joins the show. Moten shares stories of his days being coached by Jim Boeheim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Pitino reflects on coaching as an assistant to Jim Boeheim leading up to Syracuse University's celebration of Boeheim's career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leading up to Syracuse University's celebration of Jim Boeheim former player Hal Cohen looks back on his experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rex Trobridge reflects being in the same Syracuse University basketball recruitment class and playing with Jim Boeheim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After transferring from Syracuse to Clemson, former Orange basketball player Joe Girard prepares for his return to the Dome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Bing and Jim Boeheim, two Syracuse legends and former teammates, share stories of their years at SU and also talk about the university’s plans to honor both of them at upcoming games this season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike and Donna of Syracuse.com assess the state of the Syracuse men’s basketball team as the team had a week to prepare for Boston College after a road loss to Duke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Syracuse.com basketball reporters Donna Ditota and Mike Waters discuss the Orange’s play in the Maui Invitational, what to make of a big win over LSU and look ahead to the ACC opener against Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brendan Marks of The Athletic joins Mike Waters on the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast to provide a preview of the ACC with their analysis of the teams and players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Pomeroy speaks with Syracuse.com's Mike Waters and breaks down his advanced analysis of college basketball used on his website Kenpom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Syracuse.com’s Mike Waters and Donna Ditota offer their thoughts on Syracuse’s basketball media day and the Orange Tip-Off that provided a first look at new SU coach Adrian Autry’s squad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Resavy, a former Syracuse walk-on, is now the girls varsity coach at Ardsley High School. But this past season Resavy has been one of a few male players who have practiced against the WNBA’s New York Liberty. Resavy tells how he stumbled into the gig and describes what it’s like to practice against superstars Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Syracuse.com beat writers Mike Waters and Donna Ditota discuss their recent stories on Gerry McNamara, JJ Starling and Judah Mintz. They then offer their picks for the Syracuse player that intrigues them the most heading into the 2023-24 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Syracuse assistant coach Allen Griffin joins the podcast to discuss the differences between working for Jim Boeheim and new Orange coach Adrian Autry, the battles going on in practice between guards Judah Mintz and JJ Starling and this year’s group of centers, including 7-foot-4 transfer Naheem McLeod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Waters and Jim Satalin bat around potential players who could one day join an exclusive club: having their Syracuse basketball jersey hang in the Dome rafters. Satalin is a former star parochial player at St. John the Baptist in Syracuse and at St. Bonaventure University. He later coached at his alma mater and at Duquesne before joining the radio broadcast team for SU games. In addition to Sa...

Mike Barber of the Richmond Times-Dispatch joins Mike to examine the ACC’s three new additions: Stanford, Cal and Southern Methodist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ESPN broadcaster Sean McDonough joins Mike to describe last week’s surprise roast for Jim Boeheim at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester. McDonough played a role in pulling off the surprise with former Seton Hall and NBA coach P.J. Carlesimo before helping emcee the evening. About 500 of Boeheim’s closest friends, family members and former players attended the event, including John Wallace, Eric De...

Description: Katie Kolinski, a former graduate assistant for Syracuse under Jim Boeheim and a West Genesee graduate, joins Mike on the podcast after getting hired as an assistant coach for the Le Moyne women’s program. Kolinski comes aboard as the school transitions to the Division I level. She also brings with her 3-year-old daughter Kaiya. Kolinski discusses coaching and recruiting while being a...

Luke DeCock, sports columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer, joins Mike to examine the state of college sports as conference realignment heats up. As schools look to further enrich themselves, how much does the revenue gap really matter, and when might that change? DeCock opens the show lambasting Florida State for threatening to leave the ACC. Later, the two scribes gaze to the West as the Pac-...

Mike Waters welcomes Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack on the podcast for his first one-on-one interview discussing the basketball coaching transition from Jim Boeheim to Adrian Autry. Wildhack details the meetings held with Boeheim, Autry and Gerry McNamara and why Syracuse did not conduct a national search to replace Boeheim. Wildhack also addresses the LeQuint Allen suspension and reinst...

Adam Zagoria of Zagsblog and NJ.com joins host Mike Waters on the podcast to talk about Peach Jam, Syracuse’s recruiting and thoughts on Donnie Freeman and Elijah Moore. Zagoria and Waters also discuss how coaches can manage and build their rosters in the transfer portal and NIL era. Later in the podcast, some thoughts on high-profile recruits such as Kiyan Anthony and Cameron and Cayden Boozer an...

Mike Waters is joined by Syracuse basketball assistant coach Brenden Straughn. The new face on the SU coaching staff, Straughn talks about a whirlwind hiring process and how word got out at the Final Four in Houston that Straughn was joining Adrian Autry’s bench. An accounting major in college, Straughn recounts his path to coaching in the podcast and what Syracuse fans can expect in recruiting. S...

Mike Waters reconnects with Mookie Jones after bumping into him at a summer league game played just outside Syracuse. Jones, a highly recruited forward who was known to let it fly during a shortened four-year career from 2008-12, talks about why he’s playing in a league with players 10 years younger than him. Jones then recounts the personal issues that led to his early departure from the universi...

Syracuse basketball beat writers Mike Waters and Donna Ditota unpack her revealing conversation with Jim Boeheim during a recent charity golf outing at Turning Stone. It was the first lengthy local interview with Boeheim since the end of his 47-year run as Syracuse basketball coach in March. The writers also touch on how he will spend his time in retirement, and Boeheim gives an early appraisal of...