The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team closed out its non-conference schedule last Saturday with a blowout win over St. Bonaventure, concluding the first two months of the 2018-19 season with a 9-4 record. Surely, a 9-4 record isn’t what anybody prognosticated for Syracuse heading into the college basketball season — the Orange were expected by many (self-included) to be top-25 good all season.
At this juncture, Syracuse figures to have work to do in the ACC and while making the NCAA Tournament isn’t out of reach, Jim Boeheim has never made the NCAA Tournament while losing four non-conference games.