Syracuse basketball sensation Elijah Hughes, who currently leads the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring and is having one of the best all-around seasons in recent Orange hoops memory, apparently is not one of the five premier small forwards across the country in the 2019-20 campaign.
Yes, I’m a total homer when it comes to the ‘Cuse, so not everything I write about the program is completely objective. However, for the folks who decide the winner of the 2020 Julius Erving Award to not have Hughes among the five finalists is an absolute joke. There’s no other manner to slice it.