Following this week’s announcement that the Syracuse Orange and Georgetown Hoyas men’s basketball teams would be renewing the rivalry for another four seasons, it seemed there were two camps of reactions:
I can understand where both groups are coming from, in all honesty. In past years, I’ve taken rather contrarian views on both the rivalry with Georgetown and UConn, respectively, and posited that perhaps we should just play neither. That’s very much an opinion of someone that graduated in this decade (2010) versus fans and alums of previous ones. But nonetheless, there’s reason to believe that without the allure of conference bragging rights, it’s hard to maintain a rivalry that was unique in college basketball because it wasn’t tethered to geography.