SYRACUSE turned to its past by hiring former star guard Gerry McNamara today in a bid to guide a fading men’s basketball programme back to prominence.

The 42-year-old McNamara, nicknamed G-Mac, is returning to where he and Carmelo Anthony led the Orange to a national championship in 2003.

McNamara then spent 14 years as an assistant under Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim and an additional season under his successor, Adrian Autry.

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