The 2024–25 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Orange, led by second-year head coach Adrian Autry, played their home games at JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse, New York as twelfth-year members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Orange started the season with three wins, including a double-overtime victory over Youngstown State. They then made the trip to Brooklyn to participate in the Legends Classic. They lost to Texas 70–66 and Texas Tech 79–74 to finish in fourth place. After a victory over Cornell, the Orange lost in the ACC–SEC Challenge to third-ranked Tennessee and they lost their ACC opener to Notre Dame 69–64. They went 2–2 in their final four non-conference games with wins against Albany and Bucknell while losing to Georgetown and Maryland.
The Orange began the meat of the ACC season by going 3–3. They defeated Georgia Tech, Boston College, and Notre Dame, while losing to Wake Forest, Florida State, and Louisville. They went 2–4 over their next six games, with wins at California and a triple-overtime victory over Boston College. They lost by four points to Pittsburgh and to second-ranked Duke during the stretch. Their fortunes didn't improve during the final stretch of the season as they went 2–5. The Orange defeated NC State and Virginia, on the final day of the season. They had a close loss to SMU, losing by just two points, and an overtime loss to Virginia Tech.
The Orange finished the season 14–19 and 7–13 in ACC play to finish in fourteenth place. As the fourteenth seed in the 2025 ACC tournament they defeated Florida State 66–62 in the First Round. In the Second Round, they faced SMU in a rematch of a game played just eight days earlier. This game was not as close, as the Orange lost 73–53. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament or the NIT.
The Syracuse Orange drew an average home attendance of 18,888, the 5th-highest of all college basketball teams.https://stats.ncaa.org/rankings/change_sport_year_div
Previous season
The Orange finished the 2023–24 season 20–12 and 11–9 in ACC play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place. Syracuse lost the tiebreaker and was the seventh seed in the ACC tournament. They faced tenth-seed NC State for the third time this season in the Second Round and NC State avenged both regular season losses by defeating the Orange 83–65. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament and they were eligible to participate in the NIT Tournament, but they opted not to participate.
Offseason Departures Departures Maliq Brown 1 F 6'9" 222 Culpeper, Virginia Transferred to Duke Judah Mintz 3 G 6'4" 188 Fort Washington, Maryland Declared for 2024 NBA draft Justin Taylor 5 G 6'6" 218 Charlottesville, Virginia Transferred to James Madison Benny Williams 13 F 6'10" 210 Bowie, Maryland Dismissed from team William Patterson 21 C 7'2" 220 Brooklyn, New York Transferred to High Point Peter Carey 23 C 6'11" 205 Sunderland, Massachusetts Transferred to Siena Quadir Copeland 24 G 6'6" 200 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Transferred to McNeese Mounir Hima 55 C 6'11" 230 Tillaberi, Niger Transferred to Howard
Incoming transfers Incoming transfers Lucas Taylor 3 G 6'5" 195 Wake Forest, North Carolina Georgia State Jaquan Carlos 5 G 6'0" 170 Brooklyn, New York Hofstra Jyáre Davis 13 F 6'7" 215 Newark, Delaware Delaware Chaz Owens 30 F 6'5" 205 Blue Bell, Pennsylvania Ranger Eddie Lampkin Jr. 44 C 6'11" 265 Houston, Texas Colorado
2024 recruiting class
Preseason On October 15, 2024, the ACC released the preseason coaches poll. Syracuse was picked to finish 11th in the ACC regular season, its lowest ranking in the poll since joining the conference in 2013.
Preseason rankings ACC preseason poll 1 Duke 956 (42) 2 North Carolina 924 (11) 3 Wake Forest 800 (1) 4 Clemson 765 5 Virginia 743 6 Miami (FL) 659 7 Pittsburgh 636 8 NC State 550 9 Louisville 518 10 Notre Dame 462 11 Syracuse 454 12 Georgia Tech 433 13 SMU 344 14 Virginia Tech 252 15 Florida State 251 16 California 206 17 Stanford 165 18 Boston College 116
Preseason All-ACC No Orange players were named to the first or second Preseason All-ACC teams.
Roster
Schedule and results Source:
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