Syracuse Basketball: 4-star PG goes off, stuns 5-star target, Team Takeover at Peach Jam

Rising senior point guard Anthony Brown Jr., a 2026 DMV product who has unofficially visited Syracuse basketball, continues to show why he should be ranked in the top 50 nationally, not hovering around the top 100.

On Tuesday night, as the Nike EYBL circuit began its annual season-ending Peach Jam tournament in North Augusta, S.C., the four-star point guard went absolutely nuclear, as my guy and top national writer Sam Lance noted in a post via X.

The 6-foot-1 Brown scored a ridiculous 37 points as his EYBL squad, the Oxon Hill, Md.-based Team Durant, knocked off arguably the top 17U team this spring and summer, the Washington, D.C.-based Team Takeover, by a final count of 79-74.

Heading into Peach Jam, as I noted in a piece on Tuesday, Team Takeover was 14-1, while Team Durant sported an 8-7 overall mark.

Four-star PG Anthony Brown Jr. was offered by Syracuse basketball nearly two years ago.

In Tuesday evening's triumph, Brown also tallied five assists and two rebounds, with no turnovers. He went 11-of-24 from the field, 5-of-10 from beyond the arc and 10-of-11 from the free-throw line.

His Team Durant colleague, 2027 five-star forward Baba Oladotun, who received a 'Cuse offer last summer, collected 20 points, seven boards and one block on 8-of-17 shooting from the field.

In the Team Takeover setback, Syracuse basketball 2026 five-star priority recruit Jordan Smith Jr. had 16 points, three rebounds, five assists, three steals and three blocks. His teammate, 2026 five-star wing Qayden Samuels, who holds an Orange offer, contributed 20 points, seven boards and three dimes.

During the current EYBL season, Brown has averaged 18.9 points, 5.2 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game. He has proven one of the top all-around performers across all of the AAU circuits this spring and summer, analysts and scouts say.

Both Team Durant and Team Takeover are back in Peach Jam action on Wednesday. Here's the schedule.

As a junior in the 2024-25 campaign, Brown had an award-winning season for Archbishop Carroll High School in D.C. On Tuesday night, his scholarship offer sheet grew to 19, with an offer from Vanderbilt, per a post on X from Brown's dad.

In late August of 2023, Brown took an unofficial visit to the Orange to compete in the team's annual Elite Camp. Around that time, he picked up a scholarship offer from Syracuse basketball. In December of 2024, Brown's dad told me that the 'Cuse staff was in consistent communication with his son, and Syracuse basketball was among Brown's top schools.

I traded messages with Brown's dad on Wednesday morning. He said that his son hasn't heard from the Orange of late. That's a bummer to me, as I think Anthony is an immensely talented and supremely underrated 2026 prospect.

For context, though, the 'Cuse is recruiting another 2026 point guard, five-star Deron Rippey Jr. from New York City, extremely hard. He just included Syracuse basketball in his top 12, and the top-20 national prospect will officially visit the Hill in late September, as I first reported.