2000-2001 Syracuse Orangemen
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Coach: Jim Boeheim

Player Cl Pos G GS Min FG FGA FG% FT FTA FT% 3PT 3PA 3P% Ast Reb DReb OReb Fls DQ TO ST BS Pts Ppg Apg Rpg
Allen Griffin Sr G 34 34 1247 120 313 38.3% 106 149 71.1% 22 90 24.4% 220 111 86 25 72 1 98 66 5 368 10.8 6.5 3.3
DeShaun Williams So G 34 34 1117 147 398 36.9% 62 82 75.6% 66 197 33.5% 116 99 71 28 101 3 87 66 10 422 12.4 3.4 2.9
Preston Shumpert Jr F 34 34 1240 225 515 43.7% 132 173 76.3% 80 207 38.7% 56 200 130 70 71 1 59 65 20 662 19.5 1.7 5.9
Damone Brown Sr F 34 34 1222 215 437 49.2% 125 158 79.1% 4 14 28.6% 65 300 191 109 92 2 69 58 48 559 16.4 1.9 8.8
Jeremy McNeil Fr C 34 21 542 32 49 65.3% 21 37 56.8% 0 0
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 4 107 69 38 103 10 26 11 64 85 2.5 0.1 3.2
Kueth Duany So F 34 0 624 66 151 43.7% 48 75 64.0% 8 29 27.6% 30 112 65 47 87 1 42 29 13 188 5.5 0.9 3.3
Billy Celuck Jr C 28 13 502 56 97 57.7% 9 19 47.4% 0 0
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 17 110 60 50 92 7 21 16 35 121 4.3 0.6 3.9
James Thues Fr G 24 0 185 12 31 38.7% 13 27 48.2% 2 7 28.6% 31 11 10 1 19 0 15 12 2 39 1.6 1.3 0.5
Ethan Cole Jr F 18 0 111 7 19 36.8% 4 6 66.7% 0 0
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 2 22 14 8 31 1 9 1 5 18 1.0 0.1 1.2
Rob McClanaghan Sr G 11 0 27 4 6 66.7% 0 0
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 3 4 75.0% 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 11 1.0 0.1 0.0
Greg Davis Fr F 9 0 27 1 6 16.7% 0 0
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 0 1 0.0% 3 3 1 2 5 0 1 0 0 2 0.2 0.3 0.3
Tim Byrnes Sr G 6 0 11 0 2 0.0% 0 0
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 0 1 0.0% 0 3 2 1 2 0 3 1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.5
Chris Schau Sr F 8 0 7 0 1 0.0% 0 0
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 0 0
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 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0.0 0.0 0.1
Andrew Kouwe Fr G 5 0 6 0 3 0.0% 0 1 0.0% 0 1 0.0% 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.2
Mike Rosenblum Sr G 5 0 5 0 0
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 0 0
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 0 0
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ronneil Herron So G 3 0 2 0 1 0.0% 0 0
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 0 1 0.0% 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

The season started off being one of questions. How were the Orangemen going to overcome the loss of the starting backcourt of Jason Hart and Tony Bland, and more importantly the defensive and rebounding capabilities of Etan Thomas and Ryan Blackwell?

The answer to the first part of the question was the re-emergence of Allen Griffin as the point guard. Griffin had been the starting shooting guard his sophomore year, but spent most of his junior year coming off the bench as the top guard reserve. Griffin rose to the occasion and played a steady, if not at times spectacular, point guard position, taking good care of the ball and helping his teammates get good shots. Griffin even registered a triple double against Pittsburgh on February 27th.

Damone Brown improved to provide the rebound help the team would need, though he could not overcome the entire loss of rebounds. But the difference in the season was the emergence of Preston Shumpert as big time college scorer, with his tremendous three point shooting range. Shumpert scored nearly twenty points a game, and sophomore DeShaun Williams emerged as a solid shooting guard. The combination of these two offensive weapons and Brown, help the Orangemen go from a preseason unranked team up to as high as #8 in the country.

The Orangemen first caught notice by opening the season winning the Great Alaska Shootout. The improved their record to 16-1 before a January loss to Seton Hall. The would struggle the later half of the Big East season going 7-6, four of those losses to unranked teams.

In the Big East tournament, Preston Shumpert was leading the way. They Orangemen had an easy win over UConn in the first round, followed by a close win over Providence in the second. Syracuse faced unheralded Pitt in the semi-finals; unfortunately, Preston Shumpert was poked in the eye early in the game and the loss of the effective Shumpert stymied the Orange offense for that game. The hustling Pitt team took Syracuse to overtime, where the Orangemen loss 55-54.

In the NCAA tournament, the Orangemen had very few problems with Hawaii in the first round, but were completely overmatched by a very talented Kansas team in the round of 32, losing 87-58, for Syracuse's worse loss ever in the tournament.

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