Best things heard at Syracuse basketball media day and a SU-Pitt football preview

On the latest episode of Syracuse Sports presented by Crouse Health, Brent Axe previews Syracuse football's big game with No. 19 Pittsburgh on Thursday night. It's the biggest SU-Pitt game in years and could set up SU to return to the Top 25 rankings and stay in contention for the ACC Championship game. Brent tells you what the keys to the game are and what he thinks could hold SU back from a win if it does lose.
Brent also plays back the best things he heard at Syracuse basketball media day. You'll hear SU players Jaquan Carlos, Eddie Lampkin, Lucas Taylor and JJ Starling discuss how thgey certainly noticed their projection to finish 11th in the ACC, the goal of returning to the NCAA Tournament and how'll they accomplish it plus one player's exciting projection of Donnie Freeman's NBA future.
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[@jbartosch8233]

Even with a win I would be surprised if Syracuse makes the top 25. The bottom 5, 4 have games 3 of them are playing Texas, ND, and Alabama while SMU plays Duke. Army has an off week. This is where the loss to Stanford hurts. I still think they win. Miami is the prize. Business time, take care of business.

[@sustud1531]

They win they are def in. There’s a good chance all 3 of those teams (navy/Missouri/Vandy) lose and that’s plenty of space for the Orange to slide in. Deservedly

[@jbartosch8233]

The key for SU basketball is winning 2 games in the ACC tournament... Poor history of that.

[@sustud1531]

That and winning the games against really tough opponents, which they also have a poor history of

[@jbartosch8233]

@@sustud1531 Winning at home while beating the teams middle of the pack and lower. It takes discipline and focus. Without looking in the last ten years half the league losses fit that bill including ACC tournament first round losses.
Rebounding is a discipline focus task and requires 5 players at times. Go look back at games in the last ten years you see a lot of ball watching especially the guards when two steps inward gets them a rebound or foul. Not sexy but edgy.