Siena, Italy – Syracuse cruised to its third straight victory on its tour of Italy, defeating the Siena Select team Saturday afternoon 115-56 inside the Palazzetto Men’s Sana.

The Orange played the best basketball of the trip here Saturday. SU arrived at the arena earlier than its previous two games and players had already worked up a healthy sweat by game time.

The outcome was never in doubt. The Orange was bigger, better and more athletic than the Italian squad. Six Syracuse players reached double-figure scoring, led by Joe Girard’s 16. Nobody played more than 25 minutes in the game.

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Jalen Carey was a speedy, unstoppable jet at point guard in the first half. He scored 11 points – all of them on driving layups. He missed his first attempt, failing to go hard to the rim. Then, he learned.

None of the Siena players could stay with him and Carey took advantage of his quickness, either turning the corner and reaching the rim or driving the lane and finding open teammates on the perimeter. On one particularly pretty play, Carey led the Orange fast break and left the ball for a trailing Jesse Edwards.

SU’s ball movement, its quick pace, was a refreshing alternative to the slow slogs of the past few seasons. The Orange pushed the pace whenever it grabbed a defensive rebound, with Carey or Brycen Goodine usually leading the way. And SU passed the ball -- quickly, definitively, willingly.

On one gorgeous example, Carey found Elijah Hughes in the corner, who swiftly unloaded the ball for Buddy Boeheim. Boeheim was wide open at the top and he splashed a 3 to give SU a 49-24 advantage. Syracuse made 17 of 40 (43 percent) from the 3-point line in the game.

Quincy Guerrier scored seven first half points and was a physical, aggressive presence on the floor. He posted up on one play, caught the ball on the block, turned and simply crammed the ball in over his defender. He is a willing, enthusiastic presence on the offensive glass, too. Of his seven first-half rebounds, four were of the offensive variety.

Early in the second half, Guerrier drained a 3-pointer, then tip-slammed a Hughes’ missed 3. He plays hard every minute and his face betrays every emotion.

SU shot 53 percent overall in the first half and led 54-26 at the break. The Orange played man-to-man defense for most of the second quarter and held Siena Select to nine points for those 10 minutes. The man D first surfaced when Jim Boeheim elected to go with three guards, but the Orange played man the rest of the half and for parts of the second half.

Siena Select was no match for the Orange, either physically or from a skill perspective. But Syracuse played better, was as cohesive as its been on offense this whole trip and dominated the glass 22-13 in the first half. The Orange shot 8-of-21 from the 3-point line that half. SU assisted on 11 of its 19 field goals.

By the end of the third quarter, the Orange led 92-36. The teams are playing with a 24-second shot clock, but SU’s insistence on pushing pace and the blistering way it executed on offense put points on the board in a hurry.

Carey scored 15 for SU. Guerrier finished with 14, Hughes had 13 and Bourama Sidibe and Goodine each scored 10 each.

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