SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The skies are decidedly colder, the days are definitively shorter, and it’s officially basketball season in Central New York.
Only this time it’s different.
For the first time in 48 seasons, the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball program has a new head coach. Adrian Autry represents the eighth and the first actual game of his career goes down in the win column. There was mostly man-to-man defense and there was some 2-3 zone from Syracuse. There was tempo and there was depth. And this time it counted for real.
The preparation for Autry looks fairly similar to how it did when he was the Associate Head Coach to Jim Boeheim, the storied Hall of Famer whose signature still adorns the court inside the JMA Wireless Dome.