Three takeaways from Syracuse’s 77-55 loss to Duke

We should’ve seen this coming.

The Syracuse Orange returned to form in a bad way against the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday night. A lot of familiar issues flared up and the Orange lost a game in very similar fashion to how they’ve lost games earlier this season. All of that culminated in a 77-55 to Duke.

Here’s our three takeaways from another frustrating night in Central New York:

Regression to the mean

Just because recent teams haven’t had success against Syracuse from three doesn’t mean that the Orange have solved all of their perimeter defense problems.