NEW YORK — It has been three years since the Syracuse basketball team made the NCAA tournament. Yet this year could mark a return to the Big Dance for the Orange.
While Donte Greene has departed for the NBA, both Eric Devendorf and Andy Rautins return to a team that was picked to finish eighth in a powerhouse Big East conference. Syracuse also appears in the Top 25 of several preseason polls, with Blue Ribbon ranking the Orange No. 20.
**And read more from Big East Media Day here.
**Paul Franklin also has a column on Big East Commish Mike Tranghese in which he says the leading candidates to take over for Tranghese next June are Kevin Weiber, a former Big 12 commissioner, and senior associate Big East commissioner John Marinatto.
