Syracuse basketball adds another non-conference game to its upcoming season schedule

The upcoming 2026-27 season is the first in which the NCAA upped the maximum number of regular season games to 32.

For Syracuse and the other 17 ACC teams, that means scheduling 14 non-conference games to pair with the 18 league match-ups, before the ACC Tournament is contested next season with a one-year move to Greensboro.

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Through various reporting heading into this week, we have now been able to piece together the three Orange exhibition games and seven regular season contests.

The latest game announcement is Wednesday’s report from Bracketeer.org that SU will face Lafayette in the Dome on Saturday, November 21. It is now the second known home game.

The juggling act of balancing the non-ACC portion of the schedule

The exhibition games against defending national runners-up Connecticut, and Div. I schools Siena and Niagara, provides a nice mix of opponent quality suitable for pre-season fine-tuning and learning,

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The 14 regular season games have to combine tough games against (likely) Quad 1 oppponents to improve both the metrics heading into ACC play, and providing enough games that will make it easier to predict of total win total before those league contests.

Currently, of the ‘Cuse’s seven non-conference games, five are against Power Conference teams (Indiana Oklahoma, Providence, Rutgers, and St. John’s), and now the Lafayette game joins the reported Albany matchup as two games that will feature mid-size (and smaller) programs on the slate.

Last season, Lafayette finished with an 11-21 record under fifth-year head coach Mike McGarvey.

There are still seven non-conference games to be announced over the next six-to-eight weeks, and Gerry McNamara has previously hinted that upstate schools and longtime SU rivals Colgate and Cornell are teams he wants to see his team face in the Dome.

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