Pearl Washington has been at back-to-back Syracuse games, a welcome sight after brain surgery earlier this year.
In the annals of Syracuse Orange basketball lore there are many beloved former players. Very few more beloved, however, than Pearl Washington.
Boeheim credits Pearl as being the turning point for the entire program in the 80's, taking us from "good" to "great." So Orange fans were dismayed to find out the SU legend had to undergo brain surgery in August to deal with a malignant tumor. For a while there, though we knew he was on the road to recovery, we didn't know too much else, let alone whether or not we'd see him roaming the Dome once more.