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Syracuse Basketball: Daunting non-conference slate is nearing completion

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It’s a common and somewhat tired tale that Syracuse basketball often plays a bunch of cupcakes during its non-conference calendars. Whether you agree with that take or not, the Orange definitely won’t have an easy non-conference schedule during the 2021-22 campaign.

The ‘Cuse is expected to have 11 non-conference games and 20 Atlantic Coast Conference contests in its 2021-22 regular season. And the bulk of its non-conference battles are known, to one degree or another, at this juncture.

Per a press release on cuse.com, Syracuse basketball will host Drexel in a non-conference collision on Sunday, Nov.