Buddy Boeheim made it official on Sept. 8, announcing that he would play basketball at Syracuse under his father. The move surprised no one, given Boeheim’s emergence as an ACC-caliber recruit, and his father’s decision to stay for the foreseeable future at Syracuse.
The 6-5 Boeheim, a product of Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, gives something the Orange desperately needs – outside shooting. This summer, playing for one of New York’s elite AAU programs, the Albany City Rocks, Boeheim converted over 48 percent of his 3-point attempts.
Boeheim averaged 12.2 points per game in the highly-competitive Nike EYBL circuit, which provided him a chance to complete with and against much of the nation’s top hoops talent. In the prestigious Nike EYBL Finals at the Peach Jam, Boeheim was a stellar 15-of-27 (55.6 percent) from 3-point range.
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