The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team is set to take on former Big East rival Connecticut in the first round of the 2K Classic tonight at Madison Square Garden. The game will tip at 7 pm from the garden, a venue that’s played host to some of the best and most historic games of the Syracuse-UConn rivalry.
As always for these types of events, we reached out to those representing the sixth borough bucolic countryside of Storrs, Ct. from The UConn Blog to preview the game. Daniel Connolly had answers.
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