Since the mid seventies...a couple of years after my father took a significant promotion/transfer with General Motors from Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of the transfer, I was in my later grade school school years, and was a huge Buckeye fan. However, only a couple of years afterwards, SU's run to the Final Four with Jimmy Lee and company sealed the deal then, and ever since.
As an aside, when I first stumbled across the very 1st variation of this board (sometime in the 90's) I used Jimmy Lee as my handle since he was my favorite Syracuse player...until the one and only Carmelo came along.