There’s plenty of “what if” throughout Syracuse Orange sports history, as you’re certainly aware of. Winning one national championship each in football and men’s basketball will do that to you, even if plenty of the other teams in question didn’t even play for a title.
When we’re talking about the Orange men’s basketball program, it’s easy to focus in on the “near-misses” like like 1987 and 2013, or fellow Final Four squads in 1975, 1996 and 2016. Yet, those teams DID have a chance to win it all, even if they didn’t..
This week, while talking about Syracuse’s best teams not to win a national title, we tried to focus on those didn’t get a chance to, as those are really the more interesting stories than “imagine if Keith (EFFING) Smart didn’t hit that shot?