The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team begins the most important stretch of basketball when it hosts the North Carolina Tar Heels tonight from the JMA Wireless Dome. Syracuse has shown signs of improvement with its freshmen growing throughout the year, but as part of what’s become a characteristic non-starter non-conference showing, the Orange missed opportunities in the early season.
Syracuse has worked itself into a respectable 13-7 (6-3) record, but lacks the marquee wins necessary to be considered in the NCAA Tournament race that Jim Boeheim said Syracuse would be in at the beginning of the season.