Yesterday, Ben wrote up a story about next year’s Syracuse Orange basketball roster and recruiting, talking about how next year may be rough, before setting up a very good 2018-19.
That served as a jumping-off point for an interesting conversation in the comment section about the baseline expectation for Syracuse hoops from year-to-year, and how that compares to other top programs. I wanted to expand upon that a little bit here.
To start: What is the baseline for Syracuse every season?
Since the 1972-73 season (we’ll use this as an arbitrary starting point for the “modern” era of the program) has never missed more than two straight NCAA Tournaments.