ce points to our four and that was the deciding factor down the stretch.The Bulldogs are led by All-MEAC Preseason first-team selection Eric EJ Eaves, who averaged 17.3 points per game last season and is scoring at a 15.3-point clip this year. Fifth-year

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Calling it best for my future, Leonard Fournette announced Friday that he will not play in LSUs bowl game against Louisville, ending his college football career.Fournette initially thanked LSU coach Ed Orgeron for his decision for not letting me play in the bowl so that his injured ankle could continue healing, but the star running back eventually clarified that the decision was mutual.Me and Coach O came to the decision, Fournette said. We really thought it was best for me.Fournette, the No. 1 prospect on ESPN analyst Todd McShays board for the 2017 NFL draft, previously had announced that he would enter the draft after the season ended.LSU will play Louisville in the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl on Dec. 31.This will be the fifth game this season that Fournette, a junior, has missed. He has been hampered by a lingering ankle injury -- a high- and low-ankle sprain, plus a bone bruise -- that he initially suffered in an August scrimmage.He managed to rush for 843 yards and eight touchdowns in seven games, but rarely looked like the Heisman Trophy candidate who ran for a school-record 1,953 yards a season ago.Im not a quitter at all, said Fournette, who earned second-team All-SEC honors despite missing half the season. I tried to play through the injury as best as I could. So it was hard knowing that the hard work that I put in didnt build up to the season.Fournette said the ankle is now 85 to 90 percent healthy after sitting out since the Tigers Nov. 19 loss to Florida.Its getting better, Fournette said. Over time that we had break, I was just going to rehab, going to see the doctors and stuff, so its getting better.The New Orleans native called it a hurtful feeling that he was unable to play a full season and contend for a national championship in his final season at his home-state school.But Orgeron pointed to the impact Fournette had on the LSU program. He singled out Fournettes 228-yard, three-touchdown game against Auburn last season, and a 284-yard effort on just 16 carries against Ole Miss this fall.We are grateful for all the years Leonard gave us, all the great memories, all the great games, Orgeron said. One of the most dominating performances Ive ever seen as a coach [was] against Auburn, and against Ole Miss this year. But more than that, Leonards on track to graduate in May.Leonard was a great teammate. Every day he came to work. He was a joy to coach. Players love him. Little kids across the country emulate him, want to be like him. 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Youd have to look hard to find flaws in a team that has outscored its opponents by an average of 31 points per game, but Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim eventually found something he could use to motivate his team following a 71-50 blowout of Monmouth on Friday.Boeheim, now in his 41st year at Syracuse, said the 17th-ranked Orange need to do a better job of protecting the ball when it faces South Carolina State in a Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational game at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday at the Carrier Dome.Syracuse committed 16 turnovers against Monmouth Friday, including 10 in the second half, after turning the ball over a combined 20 times in its first two games against Colgate and Holy Cross.We cant have our point guards just giving the ball up like that, Boeheim said. They didnt score any points in the second half except off turnovers.Actually, the Hawks scored only eight of their 21 second-half points off turnovers. But its true that Orange point guards Frank Howard and John Gillon, who combined for 27 assists and five turnovers in the first two games, were both a little shaky against Monmouth with a combined seven assists and four turnovers.Im not worried about John. Hes a good player and he went against a good kid (Friday) thats really good (Monmouth point guard Justin Robinson), Boeheim said. He made a couple of mistakes, Frank made a couple of mistakes. Thats why we play these games, to try to learn from those mistakes.The Orange will play another one of these games Tuesday against a South Carolina State team that fell to 1-2 Friday after a 92-50 loss to South Carolina. The Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational is a five-team, round-robin tournament that inccludes Syracuse, South Carolina, South Carolina State, Monmouth and Holy Cross.ddddddddddddLast season, the Bulldogs enjoyed their best season since 2005 as they finished 19-15 overall and 12-4 in the Mid-Eastern Atlantic Conference and advanced to the title game of the MEAC Tournament. The leagues coaches and athletic directors picked S.C. State to finish second in the MEAC this year behind Howard -- the first time since 2003 the Bulldogs have been picked as high as second in the preseason.But with six new players, the Bulldogs are still finding their way as they were thumped by a strong Wichita State team 85-39 and defeated NAIA member St. Andrews University 93-76 before losing to South Carolina. The Bulldogs shot only 30.8 percent (16-for-52) and were outrebounded 47-24 against the Gamecocks, and theyll have to do far better than that if they want to stay in the game against Syracuse.It was a tough loss for our team tonight against a very talented and well-coached South Carolina team, but we have to learn from this and keep moving forward, said Bulldogs coach Murray Gavin, the 2015-16 MEAC Coach of the Year. They had 28 second-chance points to our four and that was the deciding factor down the stretch.The Bulldogs are led by All-MEAC Preseason first-team selection Eric EJ Eaves, who averaged 17.3 points per game last season and is scoring at a 15.3-point clip this year. Fifth-year transfer guard Andrew White is leading the Orange in scoring at 18 points per game and hes shooting 38.5 percent (10 of 26) from 3-point range. ' ' '