Syracuse basketball’s “Orange Standard” used to be about winning, our beat writer says. Nowadays, showing “fight” and “battling back” means you’re playing up to the standard. Those are the trademarks of the low bar SU has set for itself in recent years.
To most who watched the UNC game Monday, the clear feeling that Syracuse was getting outclassed was what stuck out— not the comeback that fell 10 points short.
Monday night in Chapel Hill served as another painful reminder of how far the Orange’s program has fallen since its glory days under Jim Boeheim, he laments.
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