Western Michigan is 16-12-1 ATS with an O/U record of 15-12 and Syracuse is 14-12-2 ATS with an O/U record of 10-15-2.In their last games Western Michigan beat Toledo 98-77 in the Mid American Conference tournament final and Syracuse lost to NC State 66-63 in the ACC tournament.
This season Virginia is 14-2 at home and Syracuse is 7-1 on the road. In their last games Syracuse is 57-55 and Virginia beat Miami 65-40.
The Orange are searching for answers after 2 losses in a row. They had been playing with fire all season long but still losing against Boston College at home in overtime was a bit of a shocker.
The top-ranked Syracuse Orange will make the trip over to Durham on Saturday for a grudge match with the Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The first meeting between these teams this season was a thriller, with Syracuse gutting out a 91-89 overtime win in overtime at the Carrier Dome.
Unbeaten No. 2 Syracuse puts its record on the line on Monday, when it hosts Notre Dame at the Carrier Dome.
The North Carolina Tar Heels will make the trip up to New York to take on the second-ranked Syracuse Orange at the Carrier Dome.
Villanova has to be the most pleasant surprise in college hoops this season. Not only are they undefeated but they have beaten some very good teams including Kansas and Iowa.
The Minnesota Golden Gophers and Syracuse Orange will face off in the Texas Bowl on Dec. 27.
No team has surpassed expectations this season than the second-ranked Florida State Seminoles, who face another tough ACC foe on Saturday when they host the Syracuse Orange.
In a match up of a couple of #4 seeds Michigan faces Syracuse where the winner will head to the National Championship game. The Orange have played stellar D in their last 2 Big Dance games and they will be facing a great Michigan squad that has knocked off Kansas and Florida, who are a couple of top 10 teams, in advancing to the Final 4.
The East Region championship game is an all Big East affair where Syracuse will take on Marquette and the winner will advance to the Final 4. When these 2 teams met in conference play this season Marquette was at home and beat Syracuse 76-71.
The last time Indiana won the National Championship they beat Syracuse in the 1987 title game. Both of these teams in the Sweet 16 East Region match up had blowout wins in their Big Dance openers, but each was tested in their last game.
In the first game for both teams in the East region and Syracuse is the 4th seed and Montana is the 13th seed. Obviously, in the Big East the Orange played a much tougher schedule and even though Montana only had 1 less wins NCAAB lines have the Orange as the big 12.5-point favorites with a total of 128.5.
Syracuse is a top 10 team, but when the new rankings come out they will not be since they have lost 2 straight. One the other side of the coin Notre Dame may creep back in the top 25, as they have won 3 straight.
This is Syracuse’s swansong in the in the Big East Conference before joining the ACC (booh). That is a lot of history on the way out which is kind of what happened to the Orange at the end of last season too.
Going back to last season Syracuse has lost 5 straight games and to avoid making it 6 in a row they will have to come up with a huge upset over USC.
