Everyone loves a good comeback story. At the very least, the Syracuse Orange women’s basketball team should be proud of its turnaround this season.
The Orange (16-10, 7-8) enter its last three games of its 2022-2023 campaign on a season-high, sitting seven games above-.500. Regression to the mean was a certainty given both the dominance of this year’s ACC despite Syracuse’s hot start to the year.
And yet, the Orange continue to surprise in year one of the coach Felisha Legette-Jack era in the 315.
‘Cuse ranks 61st in NCAA NET ranking with six wins against NET top-100 teams, coming off its first victory over a top-25 NET program Thursday night against #14 North Carolina (not to pat myself on the back here, but I did predict this would be the Orange’s marquee game of the season back in September).