After a slow start, Syracuse seems to be hitting its stride.
Before Syracuse joined the ACC, we tended to view the Orange as a fairly boring and staid team and to an extent still do, though not as much.
In particular we didn't like the zone very much. Coming from a Duke perspective, we were really sold on aggressive man-to-man. It just made the game more interesting and dynamic, and the zone, we thought, was boring.
Well we still think it's kind of boring and we still think that Syracuse could use some fresh blood.