Collapse. Meltdown. Cold shooting. However you want to call it, the Syracuse Orange women’s basketball team suffered its first loss of the season in one of the worst ways possible.
Coming off four straight wins at home, the Orange played its first road game of the season against the Penn State Lady Lions. Penn State began this season also with a 4-0 record and, like Syracuse, both programs finished 11-18 in 2021-2022. Both teams were as close to evenly matched as possible, at least on paper.
Syracuse women’s basketball looked to begin its season 5-0 for the first time since 2017-2018, when the team finished 22-9 overall.