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Syracuse Basketball: Experts don’t feel confident in the Orange this season

The Syracuse basketball squad kicks off its 2019-20 term next month when it hosts the defending national champions, Virginia.

The Orange, facing a bunch of questions over its young roster but also possessing a lot of intrigue for its depth and better offensive firepower, is deemed by the bevy of collegiate-hoops journalists as a crew that likely won’t contend for an Atlantic Coast Conference crown, and it will probably reside on the proverbial March Madness bubble as the season carries on.

For one, NCAA.com correspondent Andy Katz recently tweeted out his forecast for the ACC as far as Big Dance potential, and he’s currently got the ‘Cuse in the No.