When the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball season came to a definitive close last March, Quadir Copeland already knew he was coming back. It didn’t matter if Jim Boeheim was the head coach or if it was Adrian Autry. He would return either way and he had an inkling that the freshmen class that he came in with would be coming back, too. But there was a particular value that he felt he had to abide by in his particular situation.
“I was locked. I’m big on loyalty. I think I said that in the past. I’m big on loyalty and I knew my guys were staying,” Copeland said of his decision to return to Syracuse.