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Top 12 Syracuse basketball players of all time

Ask any basketball fan about Syracuse University and the first responses won't vary much: Jim Boeheim and 2-3 zone.

But while the Syracuse men's basketball program has become iconic for the defensive scheme it runs and the legendary coach who runs it, the players — from a future Detroit mayor to a nine-time NBA All-Star — it's the players who have made it into one of the NCAA's greatest college basketball programs.

Syracuse, which played its first official season in 1900-1901, is the fifth winningest men's Division-1 basketball team of all-time, and currently holds an active NCAA-record 46 consecutive winning seasons.