It’s been a down season for Syracuse males’s basketball, however the 2022 ACC event presents this system an opportunity to make a Cinderella run to the massive dance. The Orange needed to begin their run in Brooklyn towards Florida State, and so they already obtained a present from the referees when one among their finest gamers was allowed to get away with an obvious punch to his opponent’s chest.
Buddy Boeheim, son of Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim, struck Florida State’s Wyatt Wilkes and wasn’t known as for a foul. How did the refs let Boeheim get away with this?
Boeheim, a 6’6 senior ahead, led Syracuse in scoring this yr at greater than 19 factors per sport. Syracuse is fortunate he didn’t get ejected. The Orange enter the ACC event at 15-16 total and 11th of September within the ACC. Successful the convention event is their solely path to the NCAA event.
Right here’s what Papa Boeheim stated after the sport:
Boeheim on the Buddy punch: “I noticed the play, the child pushed him twice, I feel it was inadvertent. It wasn’t a lot of a punch.”
— Anthony Dabbundo (@AnthonyDabbundo) March 9, 2022
Buddy Boeheim issued this assertion after the sport:
Followers across the ACC have been shocked he obtained away with it.
If this event have been in Greensboro they’d have had Buddy Boeheim deported. It is in Brooklyn, so him punching a dude within the chest is not even a foul.
— Mike Rutherford (@CardChronicle) March 9, 2022
Buddy Boeheim what the precise hell was that?
— Caroline Darney (@cwdarney) March 9, 2022
Syracuse received in a rout, 96-57.
For the schedule and outcomes on the 2022 ACC event, observe alongside right here.
