That was a long week without Syracuse basketball.
The Orange opened up the 2019-20 season against the defending national champion Virginia Cavaliers last Wednesday. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t pretty.
Syracuse lost 48-34 and no that isn’t a typo. The team shot 23.6 percent from the field, 17.2 percent from deep, and 42.9 percent from the charity stripe. For a team possessing extremely high aspirations offensively for the season, it’s fair to say Orange fans were disappointed with the results.
Was that a sign of things to come or Syracuse simply running into a brick wall that is Virginia?