It will be interesting for the upcoming season, already the fifth for the Orange playing ACC football, to see how the southern-flavored perception plays out as Babers enters his second season of rebuilding to get back to a bowl game.
Gillon has provided some amazing highlights for the Orange this year and winning some games likely would not have happened without him. However, it has not been all sunshine and lollipops.
As recently as the 2014-15 NCAA probation season could have had a potential five game losing streak had the ’Cuse not upset No. 9 Notre Dame in fourth-to-last game of that year.
With this Syracuse team being as flawed as they are, trying to avoid getting an 8- or 9-seed and a potential second round matchup with a #1 seed is a good idea.
Battle, who was just 1-6 from the field prior to that shot, will have a play go down in SU history along with Tyler Ennis’ buzzer beater against Pitt and Pearl Washington’s halfcourt heave against BC.