We're kicking off this edition of Syracuse Orange sports news with some men's basketball.
Tiefing Diawara, a three-star center in the 2025 class who is originally from Mali, has officially signed with Syracuse basketball, per SU Athletics. The 6-foot-11, 240-pound center Diawara had verbally pledged to the Orange in late May.
Over the spring and summer, Diawara put up some solid performances for the 17U squad of Milwaukee-based Team Herro in Nike's EYBL league, as I noted in a column last month. From late April until mid-July, according to the EYBL Web site, Diawara averaged 4.