Article: SU receives verbal from NYC-bred Southerland for Class of '08

Zach Berman
University Wire
04-23-2007
(Daily Orange) (CSTV U-WIRE) SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- In one week, Syracuse went from no verbal commitments from the Class of 2008 to two.

SU men's basketball received a commitment Thursday from James Southerland, a 6-foot-7 swingman from Cardozo High School in Bayside, N.Y. Three days earlier, SU locked up Kris Joseph, a 6-foot-7 swingman from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C.

Southerland will become the first New York City prospect to play for Syracuse since Louie McCroskey came to SU in 2003. Southerland averaged 17.6 points and 11.3 rebounds for Cardozo, perennially one of the better NYC public schools.

"Syracuse was my No. 1 school since ...

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