The worst part is you saw Thursday night’s loss coming before it actually happened. Of course you did. You’d seen the exact same thing play out repeatedly for the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team, and this time was no different. SU’s 2018-19 season was frustratingly static, unchanging and in the end, the last result — a 78-69 NCAA Tournament loss to Baylor — was befitting of all of that.
Syracuse, as you certainly know by now, rarely evolves.
That’s not meant as a dig on the Orange, their coach, the greater athletic department, school, city or its people.