Three takeaways from Syracuse’s 70-69 win over Louisville

Well, we’re all here.

If you’re still somehow in one piece after watching that, congratulations.

The Syracuse Orange and Louisville Cardinals played one of the messiest and inefficient games of the season with 36 combined turnovers. Syracuse had to make up for rebounding woes with trips to the free throw line, and in the end it was some aggressiveness at the basket and some hero shots from Joe Girard. That gave the Orange the slight edge needed to win 70-69 over the Cardinals.

Here’s our three takeaways from a game that Syracuse should’ve won by more, but certainly didn’t deserve to:

Nah, you can have the ball

This was one of the messiest games of basketball I’ve ever seen.