This past year was one full of triumph, heartbreak and controversy for Syracuse sports. Both the men’s cross-country team and women’s field hockey team captured NCAA titles and the men’s soccer team reached its first final four in program history. A Director of Athletics in his first year at the position fired a football coach and hired another, while men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim is still serving a nine-game suspension handed down after the NCAA’s eight-year look into the school’s athletic department.
The Daily Orange Sports staff determined the top 15 Syracuse sports storylines of the calendar year.