Syracuse, N.Y. – Graduate student guard Andrew White III tallied 24 points to lead Syracuse University to a 97-64 victory over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team in an exhibition game on Tuesday night at Jim Boeheim Court in the Carrier Dome.

Junior guard Tanner Hyland (South Portland, Maine/South Portland/Bridgton Academy) led the Dolphins offensively with 18 points off the bench, 15 of which came in the first half. Sophomore guard C.J. Asuncion-Byrd (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich/St. Thomas More/Gannon) registered 15 points, five assists and a pair of rebounds in his first action as a Dolphin.

White led four Orange in double figures with his 24 points, 19 of which came in the first half. Freshman guard Tyus Battle   and graduate student guard John Gillon came off the bench to register 17 and 14 points, respectively. Sophomore guard Frank Howard tallied 11 points and seven assists.

The Orange opened the game with 11 of the first 14 points over the opening 5:16. White tallied five of the points, while three others each scored two points.

After junior guard Tyree Chambers (Bayreuth, Germany/Graf-Münster Gymnasium/Providence) hit his second three-pointer of the opening six and one-half minutes to get the Dolphins within 11-6, the Orange rattled off 12 of the next 14 points to open up a 23-8 advantage with 8:45 left in the opening half. Battle scored the first eight points of the run with a pair of three-pointers around a fast-break lay-up, while Gillon and Howard followed with lay-ups.

Following back-and-forth play over the next three minutes, which resulted in a 31-15 Syracuse lead, the Dolphins registered a 16-7 run to get within seven points. Hyland buried four three-pointers in the run, including three straight at the end, while junior guard Russell Sangster (Rockville, Md./Bullis School) knocked down a pair of jump shots.

Senior forward Tyler Roberson finished off an alley-oop from Howard for Syracuse's final points of the half with 42 seconds left, while Hyland drained his fifth three-pointer of the half with 11 seconds left to get the Dolphins within 45-36 at halftime.
 
Syracuse opened the second half with 10 of the first 12 points to extend its lead to 17 for the first time. Five different players accounted for the 10 points, including three by graduate student center DaJuan Coleman.

After the Dolphins got three-pointers from Asuncion-Byrd and junior guard Anthony Richards (New Castle, Pa./New Castle/West Virginia Wesleyan) to trim their deficit to 13 with 13:43 left, Syracuse ran off 26 of the next 35 points over 7:12 to put the game out of reach. Gillon netted 12 of the points in the span, while Battle had six and freshman forward Taurean Thompson made a pair of lay-ups.

A Sangster lay-up and a Chambers three-pointer got the Dolphins within 83-58 with 5:27 remaining, but the Orange closed out the game with 14 of the last 20 points. Five players tallied Syracuse's 14 points, led by four from sophomore forward Tyler Lydon, while three players scored Le Moyne's six points, led by a three-pointer from Asuncion-Byrd, his fourth of the night.

Le Moyne opens the regular season on Saturday against Concordia College at 1:00 p.m. at the Northeast-10 Challenge presented by Hilton Garden Inn-Albany Medical Center at The College of Saint Rose.