The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team beat the Lafayette Leopards handily on Tuesday night, by a score of 97-63. While it’s just one game, all fans are likely to start forming some conclusions around this year’s team — or at least ideas around what to expect.
We’re not here to say any of those are true or false. More so, this space is just calling out some overreactions after just 40 minutes of basketball this season, before assessing whether or not those things can remain true long-term.
Syracuse will be just fine on the boards
After securing 48 rebounds against Lafayette (a team with at least a little size), you’d be forgiven for thinking that this Orange squad will be a better-than-average team on the boards.