As the Syracuse Orange NCAA Tournament hopes cling to a sliver of hope we’ve focused a lot of the attention on the porous zone defense. This overlooks a problem on the other side of the ball which has taken the Orange from what was so successful early in the year and brought them back to bad habits on offense.
In the first twelve games of the season Syracuse was held below thirteen assists in only one game (Northeastern). The Orange moved the ball so well that they had three games where they had twenty-three or more assists.