Jesse Edwards checked into Syracuse’s first exhibition game against Daemen with a personal goal: Score early, then defer to teammates and focus on defense. It was Oct. 26 and Edwards entered after SU missed a rebound. Off a designed inbound play, Edwards set a screen, scraped toward the baseline and threw his hands up.
Seeing the 6-foot-11 center roll, Buddy Boeheim fed a bounce pass. Edwards just wanted one field goal, this one a lay-up through contact. It was a key moment in his development, if not his own personal trivia. When was my first bucket in the Carrier Dome?