Basketball Archives - Page 6 of 328

Over the past four games, Syracuse basketball has been mired in a troubling trend of slow starts in the first half.

While it would be nice for each of the trio to develop into perimeter threats, Syracuse would likely settle for one to make 3s.

Syracuse started the season 13th in the ACC Power Rankings, but has climbed to eighth as the teams head into conference play.

Copeland played a significant role in SU’s furious late rally, scoring six points and grabbing five boards in the final six minutes.

While Syracuse has not seen a whole lot of snow prior to the official start of winter, Pittsburgh buried them in an avalanche of 3-pointers.

Syracuse railed by 18 points with 13:13 left, and rallied to all the way within one with under a minute to go, but couldn’t pull past Pitt.

Despite averaging 20.3 minutes per game, Syracuse freshman forward Chris Bell is averaging just 1.4 rebounds per game.

Chris Bell played his most complete game in Orange, scoring 13 points and adding a career-high 5 rebounds.

Joe Girard had one of his best performances of the season, finishing with 19 points on 3-8 shooting from downtown.

Syracuse completed the non-conference portion of its schedule with a come-from-behind win over pesky Cornell.