On Saturday night, the Syracuse Orange men's basketball team sat in the middle of a proverbial fork in the road.
The options? Come out on the right side of a much-needed win or fall into the well of irrelevancy, a season lost when expectations were so high.
Prior to playing Wake Forest, Syracuse lost their last two games in humiliating fashion at Duke and Pitt. The team needed not just a win but a definitive one to prove that this team can play up to the potential many analysts and fans had for them before the season began.