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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 3833597, member: 44"] [I]Time passes and things change, except in Syracuse, where the Orange seem to roll out the exact same team with the exact same low ceiling year after year. Over the last half decade or so, Syracuse has gotten used to living on a bubble, with a team that has almost no bench, stuck somewhere between pretty good and mediocre. Guess what: that’s exactly how you can describe the 2021 Orange. — Since Syracuse went 14-4 in the ACC in 2014, its best record in league play is 10-8. Including this year and moving backward, the Orange have ranked 341st, 349th, 256th, 351st, and 331st in bench minutes dating to 2017. Jim Boeheim’s reliance on a short bench is nothing new, but the front-line talent is not the caliber it was in Syracuse’s Big East days.[/I] Ouch [URL='https://www.backingthepack.com/nc-state-basketball/2021/1/30/22257820/nc-state-syracuse-basketball-preview-acc-2021-wolfpack-orange']NC State Syracuse Preview[/URL] [/QUOTE]