The Syracuse athletic department and the men’s lacrosse coaching staff will have plenty to do before the team takes the practice field in January—not the least of which is booking the schedule for its first season in the ACC.
The team has questions marks on attack beyond last year’s leading scorer Derek Maltz, but it returns five of its six top midfielders and nearly its entire defense.
The dynamic hybrid outside linebacker/defensive end out of Thomas Jefferson in Brooklyn picked Clemson over Syracuse during the Under Armour All-American Game on ESPN at Tropicana Field in Florida on Friday night.
Sunday’s Selection Show revealed that the two future ACC rivals will meet again on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The difference in this rematch is that it features a very different Orange team than the one that fell to Duke in April.
Syracuse dropped to 2-1 on the season with a 14-10 loss to No. 1 Virginia. The Orange struggled at the X and couldn’t quite solve Virginia’s zone defense.