Clear your Memorial Day plans, book your Philadelphia hotels, save the chores for another weekend, Syracuse lacrosse fans. The team has designs on its 12th title—first since 2009—and I’m a believer.
The 2015 Syracuse football team will play at home the entire month of September, the first time the program has had the first four games played in Syracuse since 1935.
At this point the expectations are so diminished for the Syracuse basketball squad, I’d be beyond cliché if this column simply harped on the Orange’s odds of missing the NCAA tournament.
With an unusually long eight day, mid-season layoff until Virginia Tech comes into the Dome Feb. 3, it will be back to the business at hand which for this gritty and determined, if not undermanned, team.
For 36 minutes and change, Syracuse played #13 North Carolina tightly, but wilted late as the Tar Heels closed the game by outscoring the Orange 19-11 in the final 3:29 to pull away for a 91-83 win in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Thomas Bryant, one of the best unsigned big men in the Class of 2015, says that he still hasn’t set any more visits, but the date for doing so could be coming soon.