Syracuse basketball (17-9 overall, 6-7 ACC) looks to bounce back from a harmful mid-week loss when it visits the Miami Hurricanes (18-7, 7-6) on Saturday afternoon.
The game tips off at 12 p.m. at the University of Miami Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Florida and will be televised on CBS. Ian Eagle and Bill Raftery will be the announcers.
Syracuse is coming off a 74-70 defeat on Wednesday night at home vs. NC State. It was a result that simultaneously damaged Orange NCAA hopes while solidifying the Wolfpack’s NCAA résumé.
What’s at stake for Syracuse?
The Orange have a chance to pick up just their second Quadrant 1 win, in this case by beating a top 75 RPI team on the road, the highest classification of win available under the NCAA selection committee’s new quadrant system of evaluating teams. A second consecutive loss would take a lot of air out of Syracuse’s NCAA bubble just as it gets ready to face North Carolina and Duke in back-to-back games next week
Syracuse lost its last meeting with Miami, 62-57, in its opening game of the ACC Tournament last March 8. That was a game the Orange had to have to boost their NCAA chances; they ended up in the NIT following the loss. Syracuse leads the all-time series with the Canes 17-8.
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