Since Jim Boeheim’s retirement in 2023, his former player and associate head coach Adrian Autry took on the task of keeping SU prominent. It’s a near impossible job to succeed a Hall of Famer. But in his third season, Autry’s under immense pressure to break SU’s longest NCAA Tournament drought in over five decades, our beat writer argues. With an 81-73 overtime loss to Boston College, Syracuse’s hopes at a March Madness berth took a massive hit. The Eagles entered the contest as the ACC’s bottom feeder, with the worst offense in the conference. There’s plenty of opportunity ahead to right the wrongs, he writes. But by losing to the Eagles, the pressure has never been higher. They couldn’t afford this one. Click the link in our bio to read the column. Photograph by @LJ.Lenns.