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Syracuse Basketball: Orange destined for unranked pre-season

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Syracuse basketball will likely head into the 2020-21 campaign with relatively mild expectations. That works.

Assuming a collegiate hoops season occurs in a few months amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, Syracuse basketball is in store for an intriguing campaign.

The Orange will return four starters, but star forward Elijah Hughes, who led the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring during 2019-20, is off to the pros. The ‘Cuse has a promising 2020 recruiting class arriving on the Hill, but the team also has seen several guards transfer.