Syracuse, N.Y. – Just a couple of hours before his first college start, Kiyan Anthony was napping on the floor of the Syracuse locker room.

“Man, we were up early,’’ Anthony said. “We had breakfast at 8:00 a.m. today. So, it was a long morning. We didn’t have time to go home. So I just kind of made my bed on the floor. I put my jacket on the floor and just fell out for like an hour.

“And then, once I woke back up, got back to my routine and it was good.’’

Very good, in fact.

Anthony woke up in time to score 19 points in Syracuse’s 83-43 demolition of Delaware State at the JMA Wireless Dome on Saturday.

Syracuse coach Adrian Autry had told Anthony that he would get the starting assignment before the players boarded the buses to the Dome. It wasn’t followed by a Vince Lombardi speech or

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