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Syracuse Basketball: Jai Smith has about 40 offers, but not from Orange

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Syracuse basketball has yet to offer local product Jai Smith.

Perhaps it’s just not in the cards that Syracuse basketball is going to offer Central New York native and 2022 three-star power forward Jai Smith, whose recruitment has exploded on a national level.

We’ve written articles in the past that speak to the ‘Cuse program reportedly showing interest in the 6-foot-9 Smith, according to various recruiting analysts as well as interviews given by Smith himself.

However, to date, no scholarship offer has arrived from the Orange to Smith, who previously played for Bishop Ludden Junior-Senior High School in Syracuse and is now a junior at Bull City Prep Academy in Durham, N.