Even with the return of point guard Judah Mintz for his sophomore season, a huge development for Syracuse basketball, the Orange isn’t making the cut for super early preseason top-25 rankings as well as way-too-early mock fields of 68 for the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
All good. I like it when the ‘Cuse flies under the radar a bit (hi, 2002-03). When the 6-foot-3 Mintz revealed a few days ago that he would withdraw his name from the 2023 NBA Draft and come back to the Hill for the 2023-24 campaign, that set the Orange’s roster at 13 scholarship players, and it’s an athletic and versatile roster for sure.