In years past, Syracuse basketball typically would feast on solid, but not terrific, teams from mid-major conferences in the non-conference slate. That is not the case during the 2019-20 campaign.
The Orange, suiting up before a sparse and quiet crowd on Wednesday night in the Carrier Dome, couldn’t completely pull away from Oakland.
Sure, for much of this contest, the ‘Cuse held the lead, but it never got much beyond 6 to 10 points. In the affair’s final few minutes, I felt a bit nervous, because Syracuse seemed to let the Golden Grizzlies hang around for far too long.