Boeheim's Army will have its first The Basketball Tournament ("TBT") game this Saturday night, and ahead of that contest, the squad has brought on board another stellar shooting guard.
Per the TBT Web site, the 11th player for Boeheim's Army in the 2025 version of this $1 million, winner-take-all annual event is shooting guard and Syracuse native Charles Pride.
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The 6-foot-4 Pride can really score, and he's excellent from long range, which is an important attribute to winning the TBT. While a prep recruit, Pride helped guide Liverpool High School in Liverpool, N.Y., to a state championship.
He then spent one season at prep powerhouse Putnam Science Academy in Putnam, Conn., before embarking on a highly successful college career.
Boeheim's Army has an excellent roster this summer.
Pride spent four years at Bryant, where he scored 1,528 points and ended his career there in the top five of the program's all-time scoring list. He then played for St. Bonaventure for one season.
Per ESPN, over his five campaigns in college, Pride averaged 13.1 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.3 steals per encounter while making 45.2 percent from the field, 35.6 percent from 3-point land and 78.8 percent from the free-throw line.
In the 2024-25 term, Pride competed for Auckland Tuatara, a New Zealand-based team in the National Basketball League. According to basketball.eurobasket.com, for Tuatara, he averaged 11.9 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.2 steals per game.
Boeheim's Army has an all-time TBT record of 25-8 and won the tournament's grand prize in 2021. Its roster this summer includes:
•Former Bryant/St. Bonaventure guard Charles Pride
•Former Kansas point guard Frank Mason III
•Former Richmond point guard Jacob Gilyard
•Former Buffalo power forward Nick Perkins
•Former Southern Nazarene center Noah Starkey
•Former Syracuse basketball shooting guard Buddy Boeheim
•Former Syracuse basketball forward Jimmy Boeheim
•Former Syracuse basketball center Rakeem Christmas
•Former Syracuse basketball big man Chris McCullough
•Former Syracuse basketball shooting guard Malachi Richardson
•Former Syracuse basketball wing Elijah Hughes
Syracuse is one of eight regional sites for the 2025 TBT, and Boeheim's Army is the No. 1 seed in this regional, with games being held at the SRC Arena on the campus of Onondaga Community College. On Saturday, July 19, Boeheim's Army will play No. 8 seed Herkimer Originals beginning at 6:00 pm EST and airing on FS1.
Boeheim's Army's head coach this summer is Syracuse basketball assistant Allen Griffin, former Orange star Eric Devendorf is an assistant coach and Hall of Famer Jim Boeheim is the head coach emeritus. Businessman and philanthropist Adam Weitsman returns as the Boeheim's Army chairman, the same role that he held in 2021.