The year is 2376.
The syracusefan.com message board still exists and can be accessed through the standard implanted brain chip all humans and adorable animals like puppies and hamsters now have.
Syracuse is 21-11 on the bubble, playing against Mars State University after losing a close game to Mars Tech the week prior. There are rumors of intergalactic tampering for the upcoming portal window in the off season already.
Syracuse fights heroically, falling just short to Mars State after missing two three-pointers in the last minute and two key FTs.
A youthful poster who goes by the name of MeloDogMatic posts: "after doing a lot of research, we would have won this game and also been an NCAA Tournament Brought To you By Goldman Sachs JP Morgan Bain Sports Group lock if we just had Joe Girard III on this team. Sorry, not sorry. It's the truth. I haven't even taken any hallucinogenic dip n dots before posting this, haters."
Another poster, a 256 year old that goes by BoeheimsSpaceArmy, replies, "Not true. He stunk until he went to play with players built like those 20th century cabbage patch dolls that people that smoked those cigarette things and inhaled leaded gas all loved."
Finally, TheNewNewNewNewNewNewBees, a moderator, gives each a one week ban.
SUTomcatVersion456 gives a somber, but hopeful My Take post.
MikeSU2360 posts that the actual MVP of the team is Maliq Brown The 26th, with his PER of 26.
The only saving grace is the great awakening that occurred a century before, when Duke and UConn were unanimously voted out of college basketball by the universe, as a whole, proving once and for all, there is a God.