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Syracuse basketball doesn’t have an ESPN 100 recruit for first time ever

As if this season could get any worse for the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball program...

The Orange — for the first time since the rankings were created in 2007 — hasn’t signed a Top 100 player in the ESPN rankings.

In every single rankings from 2007-2016, Syracuse has had at least one player sign with the school. Until this year.

2007: Donte Green (17), Jonny Flynn (23), Scoop Jardine (48), Rick Jackson (51)

2008: Kris Joseph (50), Mookie Jones (67)

2009: DaShonte Riley (58)

2010: Fab Melo (14), Dion Waiters (15), C.