Syracuse men’s basketball: 26-27 schedule roundtable

Last week’s announcement of Syracuse’s 26-27 ACC opponents starts to put the schedule into better focus. We tossed up the TNIAAM Roundtable signal to get some early thoughts on the opponents assigned to the Orange.

What are your first impressions of Syracuse’s 2026-27 ACC schedule?

Kevin: The schedule breaks for the Orange in Gerry McNamara’s first year. No road games in North Carolina plus Virginia and Louisville at home. It sets up pretty well to offset a pretty boring home OOC slate for fans. Now Syracuse just has to keep things interesting in the OOC build up.

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Dom: Talk about feeling fortunate getting every “big name” school from the conference at home. Stanford being one of the two home-and-homes is… interesting. Tracking attendance this year will be especially interesting since, as Kevin noted, the out-of-conference home slate is not looking great, but the conference schedule certainly makes up for it.

Sam: You’re going to have a lot of opportunities to get that marquee win inside the Dome. Syracuse defeated North Carolina at home in Adrian Autry’s first season, a win that had a lot of Orange fans optimistic heading into the final stretch of the season and into year two. Between Duke, North Carolina, Louisville, and Virginia, there’s four potential top 25, and three teams that could be top 10, coming into the Dome.

Best home ACC game?

Kevin: I’ll assume others will say Duke, so I’ll go with another choice and that’s Virginia. They were the surprise team last year and if Syracuse wants to be a tournament team that game is going to be a big measuring stick. The Orange will need to stack a few quality wins and this is an opportunity to do so.

Dom: North Carolina. Two first-year head coaches for two programs at quite important points in the direction they’re going. These matchups have usually been close in recent years, at least compared to the Duke games of the world.

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Sam: The answer is always Duke. Not only has Syracuse…

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