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Syracuse basketball recruiting triumphs over UConn in recent years

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Syracuse basketball is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, while Connecticut resides in the Big East Conference, but these long-time rivals have gone toe to toe over high-level recruits on numerous occasions in recent cycles.

Given the relative geographic proximity that each school has to one another, it’s no surprise that high-school prospects often receive scholarship offers from the Orange and the Huskies.

I took a look at every recruiting class dating back to the 2010 cycle, using information from 247Sports, to see in which instances Syracuse basketball has secured a high-school player who had also landed a UConn offer during his recruiting process.