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Syracuse basketball escapes BC, but Jim Boeheim is down on defense

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The college basketball season, year after year, is a grind for Syracuse basketball and its peers around the country, and the challenges brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic have made the 2020-21 campaign one unlike any other in the sport’s history.

After his Orange managed to get by a pesky Boston College squad on Saturday afternoon inside the Carrier Dome, head coach Jim Boeheim acknowledged in a Zoom call with media members that his team still has much work to do as the regular season inches closer to fruition.