As he assessed his team Monday during his weekly press conference, head coach Dino Babers traced the rise and growth of already matching last year’s win total with a month to go, from the crazy 76-61 loss to Pittsburgh in last season’s road finale.
Battle emerged as one of SU’s top offensive options last season, and with Andrew White, Gillon and Lydon gone, Battle is Syracuse’s top returning offensive option.
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.
It would be fun for Syracuse football to face old Big East rivals Miami and Virginia Tech each season by changing the current ACC football divisional structure.