Syracuse Basketball: Breakdown of Tyus Battle’s varying draft stock

With the time officially ticking on Tyus Battle’s Syracuse Basketball career, where he lies, in terms of the 2019 NBA Draft, remains unknown.

Tyus Battle is a name that’s widely renowned in around the college basketball world. For fans who don’t follow the NCAA religiously, perhaps he’s not a name you would’ve heard of that much. He’s a player who nobody really knows how good he is yet. The Syracuse Basketball star has shown that he’s got a lot to work on, if he’s going to succeed in the NBA, but who hasn’t? Battle‘s a player who definitely has talent, there’s no doubt about it.

If you caught the Orange’s 95-91 OT win against the ‘Monster’-like Duke side on Tuesday, then you won’t, at all, be in the dark on what the young guard is able to produce on a basketball court. Battle led the unseeded Orange in scoring, with 34 points at the famous Cameron Indoor Stadium, resulting in a very important win for Syracuse against a fellow ACC rival, and a win that’ll look very nice on Jim Boeheim’s team’s CV when March comes around.

This Syracuse side is full of talent, with the likes of Battle, Frank Howard, and Oshae Brissett, who knows how far they can go this season? Battle will be the star for the remainder of the year and will be a big loss come next season, if he does leave. He declared for the 2018 Draft, but later decided to return for this year – which is his junior year. Where he lies in terms of NBA caliber talent going into next year remains a mystery. His draft stock is completely unknown and how he performs for the rest of the year will have major implications on this.