Three takeaways from Syracuse’s 62-61 win over Notre Dame

It’s a simple concept. You give the ball to your best player. He gives you results.

A 22 point, 14 rebound game from Jesse Edwards propelled the Syracuse Orange to a 62-61 victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Edwards got help with a bounce-back game from Joe Girard who had 20 points on 9-18 shooting. Syracuse held a usually good Notre Dame offense to only 38.3% shooting from the floor.

Here’s our three takeaways from a streak-snapping win.

You don’t know if you don’t try

Let this game serve as the reason why we’ve asked Syracuse to feed Jesse Edwards.

The Orange took advantage of a athletic mismatch at the forward position as Edwards had his way against Nate Laszewski in the paint all…