Jeff has covered Massachusetts Minutemen basketball for The Maroon and White and The Daily Hampshire Gazette. He has also written for The Daily Orange. Jeff is an Amherst, Massachusetts native, and graduated from Syracuse University in 2006. Follow him on Twitter @jeffreyirvine.
Syracuse hasn’t won at Louisville since Michael Carter-Williams led the Orange to an upset victory in 2013. This will be the first time SU beats the Cardinals twice in the same season since 2012.
Last season, the Syracuse men’s basketball team made 315 3-pointers, the 25th most in the country. Threes accounted for 36.5 percent of the Orange’s scoring.
While Syracuse’s long-term success is inexorably tied to its recruiting, the team’s success in 2016-2017 will depend much more on off-season development of the current roster than adding the final pieces to the 2016 freshman class.