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Syracuse Basketball: ‘We’re going to be back on top,’ Benny Williams says

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Syracuse basketball 2021 commit Benny Williams had a ton of positive things to say about the Orange in a recent interview.

Syracuse basketball 2021 commit Benny Williams is a confident, hard-working and humble young man who has some big plans for his upcoming tenure on the Hill.

The 6-foot-8 small forward, rated as five stars and a top-25 player nationally in the 2021 cycle according to Rivals.com, says that while growing up, the Orange amounted to his dream school.

In a recent virtual interview with Zach Schumaker, Williams said that among the former Syracuse basketball stars that he admired during his younger years is Dion Waiters, who was a lottery pick in the 2012 NBA Draft and is currently a member of the LeBron James-led Los Angeles Lakers, which just won the 2020 league title.