DeMarco Johnson Thankful for Syracuse Basketball Offer

The Orange offered the 2025 guard recently.

Mike McAllister | Jul 27, 2023

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Syracuse basketball extended an offer to 2025 Castaic (CA) Southern California Academy guard DeMarco Johnson recently.

“I’m grateful to Coach Corey (DeSanti) for inviting me to play with Team Elev8 this past weekend,” Johnson said. “I was able to talk with Coach Griffin after one of my games. He told me he liked my game and gave me an offer.

“I was really excited and thankful.”

Johnson’s family is from New York, and the 6-2 guard says his used to talk about Syracuse on a regular basis.

“My grandfather would always talk about the rich history of the school and men’s basketball,” Johnson said. “I know that their first Final Four was in the early 70’s and then Coach Boeheim took them to more NCAA tournaments and won the championship three years before I was born. There have been a lot of NBA players who have come out of Syracuse.”

The next steps for Johnson are to get to know the Syracuse coaches a bit better and develop a relationship with them. That and visiting the school, which he plans to do this fall.

“Yes I’m looking in to visiting Syracuse,” Johnson said. “I’m just looking for a great culture and seeing how the coaching staff is as well as the players. And also see how they play and practice.”

In addition to Syracuse, Johnson also holds offers from Arizona State, California, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi State, St. John’s, TCU and Virginia Tech, among others.

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Published Jul 27, 2023

MIKE MCALLISTER

Title: Publisher All Syracuse Education: Roberts Wesleyan College Location: Syracuse, New York Expertise: Syracuse basketball, football and recruiting. EXPERIENCE Mike McAllister has been covering Syracuse basketball, football and recruiting for more than a decade. Mike's career started with his own free blog as a way to vent following sporting events. Shortly thereafter, a network of basketball sites called Coast 2 Coast Hoops asked him to run their Syracuse site. That site was called Nation of Orange, and Mike quickly established it as a go-to for Syracuse fans. After running Nation of Orange for several months, a position with the Syracuse site on the Scout network became available. After one year as the recruiting expert with Cuse Nation, he was named the publisher. Mike oversaw the transition from Scout to 247Sports, and ran the site on that network for years. Presented with the opportunity to join one of the biggest names in the sports journalism industry, Sports Illustrated, Mike jumped at the chance. All Syracuse was started from scratch by Mike and the Fan Nation team. It has now become a staple for Orange fans of various sports. Mike has broken news on recruiting, Syracuse basketball and football team information and has established himself as the top recruiting inside in the market. He has appeared on local radio shows, television broadcasts, national radio shows and much more. Mr. McAllister has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and Information Management from Roberts Wesleyan College.