A new report indicates there is another confirmed non-conference game on the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team’s schedule for next year.
Syracuse will play the Lafayette Leopards on Sunday, November 21, according to college basketball analyst Rocco Miller of bracketeer.org. The game will be in the JMA Wireless Dome, per Miller.
If confirmed, this will be the 10th all-time matchup between the two programs. Syracuse is 9-0 versus Lafayette dating back to 1957.
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The Orange most recently faced the Pennsylvania-based school in November 2021, winning comfortably over the Leopards by 34 points.
So far, Syracuse’s non-conference schedule looks as follows:
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November 9: Indiana (Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis)
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November 21: Lafayette (JMA Wireless Dome)
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December 1: at Oklahoma (ACC/SEC Challenge)
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Date TBD: Rutgers (Barclays Center)
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Exhibition Game, October 13: UConn (Mohegan Sun, Uncasville)
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Exhibition Game, October 24: Niagara (KeyBank Center, Buffalo)
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Exhibition Game, Date TBD: Siena (MVP Arena)* not finalized, but reported to be in talks as of May
Sources also previously told NunesMagician that it’s likely Syracuse will have Colgate and Cornell on the 2026-27 non-con slate.
Syracuse’s ACC opponents for the upcoming year are also confirmed. The Orange will get Pitt and Stanford for the home-and-homes. The rest of the home ACC schedule includes Boston College, Duke, Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wake Forest. The road slate features California, Clemson, Florida State, Miami, Notre Dame, SMU, and Virginia Tech.
