SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 JJ Starling scored 15 and William Kyle III totaled 15 points and 10 rebounds to help Syracuse turn back Mercyhurst 76-62 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Starling made 6 of 9 shots with two 3-pointers for the Orange (7-4), who improve to 6-1 at home. Kyle made 7 of 8 shots and blocked five at the other end.<\/p>\n
Sadiq White Jr. finished with 13 points and nine rebounds for Syracuse. Naithan George and reserve Kiyan Anthony both scored 12.<\/p>\n
Jake Lemelman sank three 3-pointers and scored 23 to lead the Lakers (4-8), who outscored Syracuse 39-37 in the second half before falling to 1-8 on the road. Bernie Blunt added 15 points.<\/p>\n
Syracuse scored the first six points and never trailed in taking a 39-23 lead into halftime. Starling had 13 points on 5-for-6 shooting with two 3-pointers to lead the Orange.<\/p>\n
Syracuse took its largest lead at 66-47 on a fastbreak layup from White with five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
The Orange shot 49% overall but missed 13 of 17 from 3-point range. They were 12 for 16 at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n
The Lakers shot 40% and missed 13 of 18 from distance. They made 7 of 10 foul shots.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Syracuse: Hosts Northeastern on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Mercyhurst: Hosts Binghamton on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 JJ Starling scored 15 and William Kyle III totaled 15 points and 10 rebounds to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1594,10150,136,138,137,5342],"class_list":{"0":"post-64187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-college","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-wires-bot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}