Inside Syracuse Basketball

Former Syracuse basketball player Arinze Onuaku talks knee injuries, the famous 6-OT game against UConn and the Orange’s loss to Butler in the 2010 Sweet 16. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Syracuse basketball player Chuck Richards discusses transferring from Army to Syracuse, playing with Dave Bing and Jim Boeheim, spending over 25 years with the FBI and what it was like investigating the Ku Klux Klan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Syracuse.com basketball reporters Donna Ditota and Mike Waters analyze this year’s Syracuse basketball team. What areas are the biggest concern? Which players are the biggest keys? And what it’s like for them to be back in arenas and interviewing players face-to-face? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Syracuse basketball player Terrence Roberts talks about playing for legendary coach Bob Hurley at St. Anthony High School; the knee injuries he suffered in high school and at Syracuse and how he recently lost nearly 50 pounds after taking up cycling. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Hart joined the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. The conversation included Hart’s playing career at Syracuse where he remains the school’s all-time leader in steals, his new job as the head coach of the G-League Ignite, and why he left college coaching after nine years at Southern California. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Former Syracuse basketball player Matt Roe joins the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast to talk about why he transferred from Syracuse, how he almost didn’t transfer after visiting four other schools and why years later he decided to return to his hometown. He also talked about John Thompson yelled at him after he had made four 3-pointers and going to see the original Batman movie with the late Ha...

Former Syracuse star Stephen Thompson joins the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. Thompson is now an assistant coach at Oregon State where he coached his sons, Stephen Jr. and Ethan. He talked about what it was like to coach his sons; Stephen Jr. and Ethan, at Oregon State and what Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim will face this season with sons Buddy and Jimmy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o...

On this edition of the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast, Derrick Coleman talks about why he came to Syracuse, his loyalty to the university and the effort to support minority students through the Coming Back Together weekend. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ESPN’s Andrea Adelson joins Syracuse.com’s Mike Waters to talk about the recent departures of Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference. What impact will those moves have on the ACC and Syracuse? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris McCullough played just 16 games at Syracuse after a knee injury ended his freshman season. But McCullough has always wanted to play for Boeheim’s Army in the TBT. Why hasn’t he been able to play before this year? And why he believes this is the year Boeheim’s Army can win it all. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Ryan Blackwell, who has coached Boeheim’s Army for the past five years, joins Mike Waters on the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. Blackwell talked about this year’s team, including the remarkable Eric Devendorf and some key additions to the roster from outside the Syracuse family. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

Pete Thamel, college sports reporter for Yahoo Sports, joins the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. Pete and host Mike Waters discussed the recent retirement announcements from North Carolina’s Roy Williams and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski. And they talked about how long Jim Boeheim will keep coaching and how Syracuse eventually goes about replacing the legend.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o...

ESPN’s NBA reporter Dave McMenamin joins the podcast to talk about being a student manager at Syracuse, the success and failure of Syracuse players in the NBA, and how he played collegiately at the University of Limerick in Ireland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ESPN college basketball reporter Jeff Borzello joins Mike Waters to talk Syracuse recruit Benny Williams, Class of 2022 commit Kamari Lands, SU’s other recruiting targets and his thoughts on the state of the SU program.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Syracuse recruit Benny Williams joins Mike Waters on the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. Williams explains why he fell in love with Syracuse early in the recruiting process. He also talks about growing so fast that the growing pains forced him to miss an entire summer of basketball. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

Symir Torrence joins Mike Waters on the Inside Syracuse Podcast to talk about his decision to transfer from Marquette to Syracuse and what he expects his role to be with the Orange next season. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jimmy Boeheim spent the first three years of his college career at Cornell, but next year he will be a graduate transfer at Syracuse where he will join his younger brother, Buddy, in playing for their father, Jim Boeheim. Jimmy joined the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast to talk about what went into his decision to transfer to Syracuse, his hopes for next season and what he expects his role to b...

Cole Swider is this week’s guest on the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. Swider recently decided to transfer from Villanova to Syracuse. The 6-foot-9 junior forward talked with podcast host Mike Waters about his decision, how he sees himself fitting in with the Orange and the phone call he received from Buddy Boeheim after announcing his decision. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out i...

Former Syracuse basketball player Eric Devendorf joins the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast to talk about the Orange’s amazing run to the Sweet 16. What did he see in Syracuse’s two NCAA tournament wins? What is the difference between the Orange now versus a month ago. And his personal insights into Buddy Boeheim’s incredible hot streak. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....

Former Syracuse basketball player Herman Harried is this week’s guest on the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. Harried talked about playing for Baltimore prep power Dunbar High School, how he suffered the knee injury that impacted his career, playing with the likes of Pearl Washington and Derrick Coleman and how he got the nickname Tree. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....

Former Syracuse player Matt Gorman joins this week’s edition of the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. Gorman played at SU from 2002 to 2007 and was a member of the 2003 national championship team. He was part of the same freshman class as Carmelo Anthony and Gerry McNamara. Gorman talks about fishing with GMac, dunking on Carmelo and why after not playing much in his first two years at SU, he ch...

Which Syracuse assistant coach didn’t think Danny Schayes was good enough to play for Syracuse? Which member of the Basketball Hall of Fame was he named after? And why does he have a Mr. Spock cookie jar prominently displayed on his bookshelf? All this and more as the former Syracuse star joins the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn...

Syracuse University graduate and ESPN announcer Dave Pasch is this week’s guest on the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. Pasch talks about becoming the Voice of the Syracuse Orange at the age of 26, the advice he got from SU alums like Sean McDonough, Mike Tirico and Dick Stockton, why he left Syracuse for ESPN and his many hilarious stories about on-air partner Bill Walton.   See acast.com/priv...

Leo Rautins joins the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast this week. Leo played at Syracuse from 1980 to 1983, but he picked two other schools before coming to Syracuse. Rautins’ tip-in at the end of the third overtime helped Syracuse beat Villanova for the 1981 Big East Tournament championship, but two days earlier he had injured his knee so badly that he spent the night in the hospital. And Leo t...

Former Syracuse player Josh Pace joins the Inside Syracuse Basketball podcast. He talks about his impressions of Carmelo Anthony, his memories of the 2003 national championship run and how he became the head coach of the women’s basketball at Western New Mexico University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices