The Syracuse basketball team finally put it all together in a convincing and much-needed 70-55 victory against a surging Miami squad.
After getting crushed on Jan. 1 by a Boston College group that hadn’t secured an ACC triumph in nearly two years, the Orange (9-6) shot lights out versus the Hurricanes (11-3), one of the premier defensive units in the country.
I can’t stress the importance of this outcome for SU, its first conference conquest. There’s the awful BC defeat. The 33-point home drubbing to St. John’s, the biggest in head coach Jim Boeheim’s 41 years as head coach.