At 8-4 overall, the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball enters its one-week holiday break from the schedule with plenty of improving to do.
St. Bonaventure closes out the non-conference schedule on Dec. 29, and ACC play begins on Jan. 5 against Notre Dame. While Saturday’s second-half blowout of Arkansas State was a step in the right direction after back-to-back losses to Old Dominion and Buffalo, the nine Orange rotation players have all shown facets of their games in need of improvement (some more major than others). Even if only a few of these individual inefficiencies begin to be solved, which is very likely to happen, Syracuse should perform better in conference play and get closer to being the team that we expected at the beginning of the year, and perhaps start the new year on a fresher note.