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Syracuse Basketball: Don’t sleep on Elijah Hughes this season

Excitement is abundantly in the air as the 2018-19 campaign nears its commencement for our beloved boys in Orange.

The SU hoops outfit, as we’ve noted numerous times now, returns all five starters from a stanza ago, and it also adds three intriguing freshmen to its roster.

And lest we forget, guard/small forward Elijah Hughes is eligible to suit up, after sitting out a term following his transfer to the ‘Cuse from East Carolina.

Over the summer, head coach Jim Boeheim said on a podcast with college-basketball insider Jon Rothstein that Hughes “is as good of an offensive player at the guard spot as anybody we’ve had in recent years,” according to Syracuse.