2020–21 Syracuse Orange women's basketball team

The 2020–21 Syracuse Orange women's basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Orange were led by fifteenth year head coach Quentin Hillsman. The Orange were eighth year members of the Atlantic Coast Conference and played their home games at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York.

The Orange finished the season 15–9 and 9–7 in ACC play to finish in a tie for fourth place. As the fifth seed in the ACC tournament, they defeated to Boston College in the Second Round and Florida State in the Quarterfinals before losing to Louisville in the Semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament where they were the eight seed in the Riverwalk Regional. In the tournament they defeated nine seed South Dakota State in the First Round before losing to one seed UConn to end their season.

Previous season For the 2019–20 season, the Orange finished 16–15 overall record and a 9–9 in record ACC play securing an eighth-place finish. As the eighth seed in the ACC tournament, they defeated Virginia in the Second Round before losing to Louisville in Quarterfinals. The NCAA tournament and WNIT were cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Off-season

Departures Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Reason for departure Elemy Colomé 0 G 5'8" Graduate Student Lawrence, MA Graduated Whisper Fisher 2 F 6'2" Graduate Student Owings Mills, MD Graduated Alisha Lewis 10 G 5'7" Freshman Wallingford, PA Transferred to UCF Gabrielle Cooper 11 G 5'10" Senior Lansing, IL Graduated Brooke Alexander 12 G 6'0" Graduate Student Frisco, TX Graduated

Recruiting class

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Roster

Schedule

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!colspan=6 style="background:#D44500; color:#212B6D;"| Regular Season

!colspan=6 style="background:#D44500; color:#212B6D;"| ACC Women's Tournament

!colspan=6 style=";"| NCAA tournament

Rankings

+ Regular season pollsPoll Pre-Season Week2 Week3 Week4 Week5 Week6 Week7 Week8 Week9 Week10 Week11 Week12 Week13 Week14 Week15 Week16 Week17 Week18 Week19 Final AP 23 22 20 18 22 22 24 24 23 RV RV RV N/A Coaches 21 18 16 20т 20 20 21 20 RV RV RV + Legend   Increase in ranking   Decrease in ranking   Not ranked previous week (RV)   Received Votes

The Coaches Poll releases a final poll after the NCAA tournament, but the AP Poll does not release a poll at this time.

See also 2020–21 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team

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