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Syracuse Basketball: Elijah Hughes finally gets the attention he deserves

When the Atlantic Coast Conference announced its preseason media accolades last week, Syracuse basketball redshirt junior forward Elijah Hughes didn’t receive the nod for either the All-ACC first or second team. Personally, I thought that Hughes got hosed.

This week, however, Hughes is garnering admiration, and it goes beyond the ACC and onto a national scale.

On Wednesday, the 20-player preseason watch list got released for the 2020 Julius Erving Award, which is doled out annually to the best small forward across Division I men’s hoops. Hughes, appropriately, is on this list, along with two other guys from the ACC in Duke’s Matthew Hurt and Louisville’s Jordan Nwora.