Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse basketball team takes on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at 6 p.m., Saturday in the JMA Wireless Dome.
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Pregame
Syracuse and Notre Dame: two teams that entered the day side-by-side in the NCAA’s NET rankings, at Nos. 79 and 80, respectively.
And two teams that some bracketologists have omitted from NCAA Tournament at-large contention before February.
Neither Adrian Autry nor Micah Shrewsberry have gotten their programs steered in the right direction three years after replacing towering basketball figures at their respective programs.
And though these two programs rank Nos. 7 and 8, respectively, in total wins in Division I men’s history, the Fighting Irish faithful mostly treat basketball as a winter-long distraction until the spring football practice pads start popping.
Here, in Syracuse, the temperament around the state of the program is becoming increasingly combustible.
Students are chanting for a change in leadership during home games. While one fanatic resorted to punking Autry on his weekly radio show, most have simply become disinclined to discuss anything other than who will coach the team next season.
All that makes for the possibility that each remaining home game, played in front of some of the largest college basketball crowds in the nation, becomes a capricious atmosphere that reveals more than anything happening between the end lines for 40 minutes.
The school is set to memorialize former Syracuse guard Lawrence Moten during a halftime ceremony. Moten died in September at the age of 53.