{"id":557565,"date":"2026-02-01T01:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/557565\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:38:12","slug":"syracuse-basketball-star-donnie-freeman-will-not-start-vs-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/557565\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse basketball star Donnie Freeman will not start vs. Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XMCS73RU6FCTVA772FKD37UDLA\">Syracuse, N.Y. \u2015 The Syracuse Orange, looking to snap a four-game losing streak, is shaking things up for its game against Notre Dame on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DN6DVFUT5FAYZM4KF6R7VEJ3PM\">Donnie Freeman, Syracuse\u2019s leading scorer, is not in the Orange\u2019s starting lineup for the game against the Irish, which is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at the JMA Wireless Dome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KO7W2CX3UFF3PI2HFAILOOAZ3Y\">Freeman is not injured, according to Syracuse director of athletic communications Pete Moore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"P7DZEX7U45BJNPC5X7H3W76TEI\">Sadiq White, a 6-9 freshman, is starting instead of Freeman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T23AI7EVDVEZXEC6HQAWNXRBRY\">Freeman, a 6-9 forward, is averaging 19.2 points per game. He is coming off a 14-point, 10-rebound performance in Syracuse\u2019s loss at NC State on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MECXDICN3FB7ZJUPZB7LJYU4UE\">Syracuse brings a 12-9 overall record into Saturday\u2019s game. The Orange\u2019s four-game losing streak has dropped the team\u2019s ACC record to 3-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syracuse, N.Y. \u2015 The Syracuse Orange, looking to snap a four-game losing streak, is shaking things up for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":557566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1339,2871,12621,17943,16494,62,4694,4695,67,132,68,35605],"class_list":{"0":"post-557565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-hokies","11":"tag-hoops","12":"tag-orange","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-su","15":"tag-syracuse","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-virginia-tech-hokies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115992822057587575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}