What is the ‘juicing station’ of Syracuse basketball?

Just prior to the start of the 2025-26 basketball season Adrian Autry had news to share with his team. Starting this season, the Syracuse team bench would be referred to as the “juicing station.”

It has nothing to do with actual juice (although the team has plenty of nutrition and hydration options throughout the game). The juicing station is a figurative description for the team bench, meant for players to encourage and provide energy toward teammates actively competing in-game.

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“The bench is what we call our juicing station,” Adrian Autry explained. “Those guys are in it. They’re waiting to get in. They provide energy. They got the juice. Once they get in the game they bring the juice.”

The idea was met with initial apprehension from players. When Autry initially informed his team they didn’t know what to make of it.

“We all kind of just laughed at him but he takes it really serious,” Kiyan Anthony said.

Despite initial apprehension, Syracuse players have bought in. The idea is to be a good teammate and to keep guys engaged when they’re not actively competing in-game. Once the bench players do enter the game, the goal is to have no drop-offs in effort or energy. Players are expected to keep the intensity at a high level.

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“We talk about playing with energy,” Autry said, “and a level-five energy and intensity. When we got this team together we knew we were talented. We knew we could play nine or ten guys.”

Syracuse played ten rotation guys on Saturday against Drexel (before the final two minutes). The Orange was narrowly up five at the intermission after a lousy defensive effort. Autry, intent to motivate, challenged his team at the break.

“He told us we (were) BS’ing at halftime,” Anthony said. “We gotta pick the juice station up.”

Syracuse came out of the break with a heightened level of intensity on defense, limiting the Dragons to just 18 second-half points on 20% shooting. A few of those points came in the…

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