In recent years, a knock on the Syracuse basketball squad is that, during the non-conference part of the hoops calendar, the ‘Cuse doesn’t leave the state of New York much, and SU battles against a bunch of cupcakes.
I disagree with that sort of assessment, as a crucial factor that has resulted in the Orange receiving several March Madness invites is due to Syracuse actually experiencing one of the strongest out-of-conference ballots campaign after campaign.
Sure, the ‘Cuse plays a lot of home tilts prior to Atlantic Coast Conference competition commencing, but the same applies to many of the country’s premier programs.