Keita and Rakeem Christmas have made the going difficult in the paint for opponents.
Keita's emergence has come despite not starting a single game since his freshman year.
Keita hit two free throws to send Syracuse into the locker room with a 29-20 advantage.
Keita said the team is feeling confident and ready to regain its place in African football.
Backup center Baye Moussa Keita (47) and starting point guard Michael Carter-Williams (45) lead the way.
Cameroonian Samuel Eto'o, who plays for Inter Milan, and Malian Seydou Keita, complete the five-man shortlist.
Instead, Mali's goals came from midfielders like Soumaila Coulibaly, Seydou Keita and Bassala Toure.
Keita said Gadhafi had also been given misleading information about the severity of the allegations against him.
After graduating from the academy, Keita headed for the U.S. and earned a basketball scholarship at Syracuse.
After experimenting with jazz, reggae, Latin music and rock, Keita had a revelation a few years back.
Salif Keita has been called the "golden voice of Mali" and a pioneer of the music called Afro-pop.
The Mavericks, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Salif Keita and Dougie MacLean are among 2, 100 acts at this year's event.
"As a team, we just came together, " said Keita, who had 11 points in a third-round win over California.
Two days later, Keita played a career-high 41 minutes and scored 13 points in an overtime win over Georgetown.
Led by Keita and Trevor Cooney, Syracuse's bench outscored the Hoyas' reserves 23-5.
Keita has traveled a long road to sing this song, both in his life experience, and with his music.
"We call on the government to immediately release Daou, " CPJ's Africa advocacy co-ordinator Mohamed Keita said in a statement.
"I think everybody is going to be ready, " said Keita, who fouled out in nine minutes against Villanova last Saturday.
Coaches Papa Camara and Aboulie Keita, both former internationals, have assembled a squad of 18 players or which 12 are professionals.
However, Barca were rampant and Seydou Keita hit an unstoppable fourth before Xavi tapped in late on to wrap it up.
One of Guinea's top djembe masters, Mamady Keita, runs training centres in Europe and America as well as in west Africa.
But facing life as an albino in Africa, Keita decided early on that he was going to make his own rules.
"I'd have gone to Senegal, " Ms. Keita declares with a sharp nod.
The stigma of albinism has always been part of Keita's biography, one of the things he overcame on his way to international stardom.
Keita has long spoken out on behalf of albinos, but on his new album, he sings about the subject for the first time.
Georgetown had an early five-point edge before a three-point play by Keita started a 19-4 spurt for the Orange that pushed them in front.
"There are fundamentalists here too in Bamako, " Ms. Keita observes finally.
David Villa, Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets started on the bench as La Liga leaders Barca beat Real Zaragoza thanks to a Seydou Keita strike.
When the ICC requested that Libya surrender him to the court, Libyan authorities then said they wanted to prosecute Gadhafi for more serious crimes, Keita said.
In a recent BBC interview, internationally acclaimed Malian musician, Salif Keita said he "hated" Mr Konare and described him as "the worst president Mali ever had".
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