Last season the Syracuse Orange were able to sneak into the NCAA Tournament as the last team in the field in part thanks to its challenging non-conference schedule, which included an important quadrant one win against Buffalo.
This season, Syracuse has another challenging schedule before conference play. Serving as the director of basketball operations (DOBO for short) is Kip Wellman. Among other duties, Kip is responsible for scheduling opponents in the non-conference, which was recently finalized. With that in mind, we reached out to him for a Q&A which you can read below.