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Donnie Freeman had two questions for Kiyan Anthony before his first start.
Yo, you excited? How you feeling?
Freeman said Anthony responded that he was excited. Freeman wasn’t even sure whether or not his freshman teammate would start this early into his college career.
Once he started the second half of Syracuse’s season-opener versus Binghamton after J.J. Starling suffered a lower-body injury (and head coach Adrian Autry didn’t give a timetable for Starling’s return), Anthony said he began to prepare himself for this moment.