Last season, following Syracuse Basketball’s unprecedented 2016 Final Four run, in which the Cardiac ‘Cuse took down Domantas Sabonis’s Gonzaga Bulldogs, and Malcolm Brogdon’s No. 1 seed Virginia Cavaliers in the Elite Eight, the Orange failed to make the NCAA Tournament.
Tyler Lydon’s departure:
10 days later, Syracuse sophomore Tyler Lydon, who averaged more than 13 points and nine rebounds in a tough Atlantic Coast Conference, decided to declare for the 2017 NBA Draft.
Despite receiving tons of verbal backlash from Syracuse fans, and college basketball analysts across the country, Lydon continued to treasure the memories he made in Orange, and never had something negative to say about the program.