Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball

Okay, we'll get to some Syracuse football stuff obviously in a minute here, but I want to start out with Syracuse men's basketball has its third and final exhibition on Saturday afternoon.

They play Niagara at the Key Bank Center in Buffalo, New York.

This is the second straight year that Syracuse has, quote unquote, hosted a team at the Key Bank Center.

Last year it was Buffalo.

This year it's Niagara.

They play on Saturday, 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

You can check it out on Qs.com. They'll stream it just like they had the prior two exhibitions.

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Football.

in just a second plus basketball west virginia it's going to play its second exhibition game uh friday which is we're recording thursday morning so coming up tomorrow and then things just get super busy with hoops friday night and then next wednesday and then you'll play basketball for real a week yeah a week from this coming monday my goodness holy potato salad it's gonna come they open with Purple Eagles of Niagara.

Niagara.

Name the most famous basketball player from Niagara.

You have to give me a hint.

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Oh, really? Kelvin Murphy.

Wow.

I'm concerned about their three-point shooting or lack thereof, although, again, Morano looked You look good.

But, you know, they've got Niagara coming up, I think, on, what, Saturday afternoon in Buffalo.

And then a week from, well, two weeks from yesterday, they start against New Haven at the Dome.

So, you know, I'm sure some fans out there are like,

It's this Saturday at 3 p.m. Eastern.

So it is actually before the Syracuse football game, which is great.

We'll talk about what we want to see from Syracuse against Niagara coming up next.

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No, you need 12.

At 12, uh, for me, I'm gonna go Niagara.

Now, I'm gonna throw caution to the wind here, because as we start to talk about some of the better conferences, you're gonna get a team or two like this [smacks lip] that, you know, has a massive grab bag of some euros.

Uh, you know, two really tough seasons in a row here for Greg Paulus at Niagara.

Yeah.

He's put together a, another brand new roster after a lot of turnover, and he's just kind of, you know, threw shit at the wall here.

I'm waiting to You know, see if this approach works for him, if he's able to coach these type of players up.

'Cause we've seen him finish higher than, you know, the bottom tier of this league.

Uh, Kenny Blakeney is at Howard.

Greg Paulus is at Niagara.

And have you figured out number eight yet?

Yeah, give me a hint geographically.