2025-26 Basketball Schedule

[Owens guy]

Red mentioned on Orange Nation that we would not be playing in NYC but would have neutral site non conference games in areas that are Orange friendly. Any ideas?

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

 

[pearl31]

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

I vote Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[satsuma]

 

[kirbivore]

What I think of when I hear Drexel

 

[pearl31]

WERE BACK BABY

 

[Sherman20]

According to my source at Colgate, Syracuse will not be playing them this season.

Boooo!

 

[Sherman20]

Red mentioned on Orange Nation that we would not be playing in NYC but would have neutral site non conference games in areas that are Orange friendly. Any ideas?

Honestly, Red’s scheduling has been so-so his first couple of years. We should be playing an old Big East rival in NYC every year, preferably at MSG. We should be playing two of Gtown, UConn, Nova or St John’s every year. We should be playing regularly in DC and Philly, if not every year, every other year. (Glad to see they added a game in Philly. Too bad it’s not against Nova.) To me, it’s just more evidence of his lack of vision for Syracuse basketball, which should be both charting new territory but also honoring the past.

 

[Cooper05]

Would of loved for the game to be at The Palestra against any Philly team

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Syracuse men’s basketball schedule does not include two traditional opponents

The Orange has yet to release the entirety of its non-conference schedule.

www.syracuse.com

Syracuse’s men’s basketball team will not play Colgate or Cornell in 2025-26, a departure from decades of playing those two Central New York Division I programs.

Sources from each school confirmed their schedules do not include the Orange. Both programs have coveted that game. It allows them to play a Power Five program by simply getting on a bus and making the hour-long trip to the JMA Wireless Dome.

Conversations with Syracuse basketball people indicate the staff has analyzed how teams from other conferences have strategically scheduled in the NET era and has planned for 2025-26 accordingly. The ACC, too, has talked with its teams about scheduling.

Syracuse will play four games in Las Vegas, three of them in the Players Era Festival, where it will face Houston, Kansas and one other team in a tournament that supplies guaranteed money to participants to pay players. SU will also play St. Joseph’s in Las Vegas on that same trip out west.

SU, too, plays Tennessee (again) this season as part of the ACC/SEC Challenge. That game takes place in the JMA Wireless Dome.

The Orange will also face Mercyhurst and Binghamton in the dome. SU will travel to Philadelphia to play Drexel.

 

[Orangezoo]

Syracuse men’s basketball schedule does not include two traditional opponents

The Orange has yet to release the entirety of its non-conference schedule.

www.syracuse.com

Syracuse’s men’s basketball team will not play Colgate or Cornell in 2025-26, a departure from decades of playing those two Central New York Division I programs.

Sources from each school confirmed their schedules do not include the Orange. Both programs have coveted that game. It allows them to play a Power Five program by simply getting on a bus and making the hour-long trip to the JMA Wireless Dome.

Conversations with Syracuse basketball people indicate the staff has analyzed how teams from other conferences have strategically scheduled in the NET era and has planned for 2025-26 accordingly. The ACC, too, has talked with its teams about scheduling.

Syracuse will play four games in Las Vegas, three of them in the Players Era Festival, where it will face Houston, Kansas and one other team in a tournament that supplies guaranteed money to participants to pay players. SU will also play St. Joseph’s in Las Vegas on that same trip out west.

SU, too, plays Tennessee (again) this season as part of the ACC/SEC Challenge. That game takes place in the JMA Wireless Dome.

The Orange will also face Mercyhurst and Binghamton in the dome. SU will travel to Philadelphia to play Drexel.

Play good teams or play bottom of the barrel, good wins and big wins. The in between games, while inevitable to some degree in conference do very little for you if you lose them or don’t blow them out.

 

[Eric15]

SU will travel to Philadelphia to play Drexel.

This is the first I'm hearing of this Drexel game in Philly. Do we know if it's at the Sixers arena or if it's on campus at Drexel?

 

[FloridaCuse]

This is the first I'm hearing of this Drexel game in Philly. Do we know if it's at the Sixers arena or if it's on campus at Drexel?

See Post #154 above. Report: Wells Fargo Center Nov 15th.

 

[orange79]

This is the first I'm hearing of this Drexel game in Philly. Do we know if it's at the Sixers arena or if it's on campus at Drexel?

Wells Fargo Center.

 

[RedtheGOB]

I'm ok with this. Playing the top team or 2 in a non-P5 school was not getting us anything in return. It was all to benefit the other team.

Someone can also fact check my but from what I could tell these 2 programs (Colgate and Cornell) in particular do not portal in or out players and start almost all upper classmen. The top 6 guys on each team have played together their whole college hoops career. Most for 3-4 years playing together.

Binghamton on the other hand looks like a more usual example of the transfer portal with some young guys starting and every starter on their team from last year had portaled from somewhere else at one point.

People can bash me for saying oh that's defeatist but whatever. The Big12 does not care when they schedule 10 noncon games against 300+ competition and blow up teams that barely have a pulse. The rest of the season they're walking all season with Quad 1 games.

 

[Hopkins16]

Honestly, Red’s scheduling has been so-so his first couple of years. We should be playing an old Big East rival in NYC every year, preferably at MSG. We should be playing two of Gtown, UConn, Nova or St John’s every year. We should be playing regularly in DC and Philly, if not every year, every other year. (Glad to see they added a game in Philly. Too bad it’s not against Nova.) To me, it’s just more evidence of his lack of vision for Syracuse basketball, which should be both charting new territory but also honoring the past.

Is Red solely responsible for scheduling? I know his coaching has been subpar and he’s taken a licking for that, but should we blame him for everything else?

 

[MSOrange]

Is Red solely responsible for scheduling? I know his coaching has been subpar and he’s taken a licking for that, but should we blame him for everything else?

Director of Operations Pete Corasiniti is in charge. Mike Waters did a podcast with him last year that talks about the process.

 

[orangefog]

I'm ok with this. Playing the top team or 2 in a non-P5 school was not getting us anything in return. It was all to benefit the other team.

Someone can also fact check my but from what I could tell these 2 programs (Colgate and Cornell) in particular do not portal in or out players and start almost all upper classmen. The top 6 guys on each team have played together their whole college hoops career. Most for 3-4 years playing together.

Binghamton on the other hand looks like a more usual example of the transfer portal with some young guys starting and every starter on their team from last year had portaled from somewhere else at one point.

People can bash me for saying oh that's defeatist but whatever. The Big12 does not care when they schedule 10 noncon games against 300+ competition and blow up teams that barely have a pulse. The rest of the season they're walking all season with Quad 1 games.

 

[kirbivore]

Syracuse men’s basketball schedule does not include two traditional opponents

The Orange has yet to release the entirety of its non-conference schedule.

www.syracuse.com

Syracuse’s men’s basketball team will not play Colgate or Cornell in 2025-26, a departure from decades of playing those two Central New York Division I programs.

Sources from each school confirmed their schedules do not include the Orange. Both programs have coveted that game. It allows them to play a Power Five program by simply getting on a bus and making the hour-long trip to the JMA Wireless Dome.

Conversations with Syracuse basketball people indicate the staff has analyzed how teams from other conferences have strategically scheduled in the NET era and has planned for 2025-26 accordingly. The ACC, too, has talked with its teams about scheduling.

Syracuse will play four games in Las Vegas, three of them in the Players Era Festival, where it will face Houston, Kansas and one other team in a tournament that supplies guaranteed money to participants to pay players. SU will also play St. Joseph’s in Las Vegas on that same trip out west.

SU, too, plays Tennessee (again) this season as part of the ACC/SEC Challenge. That game takes place in the JMA Wireless Dome.

The Orange will also face Mercyhurst and Binghamton in the dome. SU will travel to Philadelphia to play Drexel.

Disappointed it took them that long to game the system but glad they adjusted.

 

[Niastri]

Director of Operations Pete Corasiniti is in charge. Mike Waters did a podcast with him last year that talks about the process.

Who is Corasiniti's boss? He isn't making any decisions without Red, even if he's doing all the leg work.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Who is Corasiniti's boss? He isn't making any decisions without Red, even if he's doing all the leg work.

Right. Probably Pete, Red, and that one guy from the AD's office, who's name escapes me but he's at all the games. I'm sure with JAB it was a lot easier. Different world and it was mainly cupcakes except for some tourneys.

 

[cusefan88]

Regarding schedule: the program is catching up to what is relevant now versus doing what we always do.

You either play marquee games or you play basement teams you can blow out. Plus with NIL and revenue sharing, spending significant money on buy games is not a good strategy anymore.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Frozen]

 

[Frozen]