It’s officially the make-it-or-break-it point for the Syracuse Orange women’s basketball team (13-7, 4-5) as the program hopes to sneak into the 2023 NCAA Tournament in head coach Felisha Legette-Jack’s first season.
To recap this season in a nutshell: it’s certainly been an up-and-down year so far. The Orange started off 4-0, recovered from two early road losses to Penn State and Purdue, and surged out to a 13-4 overall record, including a 4-2 mark against ACC opposition.
On the other hand, Syracuse has now dropped three-straight games, and although the team battled hard against tough opposition (The running list: #7 Notre Dame, #16 Duke, #20 NC State, and Louisville), closing out games and generating enough elite offense against the ACC powerhouses has been a struggle for the Orange (for context, Syracuse is averaging 82.