The loss dropped the Orange to 4-5 on the season, with a razor thin margin in its last three games to become bowl eligible for the first time in four seasons.
A year ago, Battle was a shy freshman on a team full of veterans. Now, he is the leader of a group of fresh faces who want to show that their inexperience will not hold them back.
Despite an early loss to unheralded Middle Tennessee State, the Syracuse football team has believed in its coach and themselves to be in position for a bowl game invitation.
There was much activity surrounding Syracuse lacrosse this fall, including an outbreak of mumps on campus limiting scrimmages, newcomers joining the program, the assignment of fabled jersey numbers.
Instead of making a prediction of how the Syracuse basketball season will turn out, there are some standards for how we’d like the see the individual Orange players perform on the court.