‘I got to be a lot better’: Gavin Doty eyeing a bounce back after tough night vs. Indiana

The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team had plenty of guys step up in a close but eventual loss on Monday night to the Indiana Hoosiers. One name who didn’t have the best night, however, was Gavin Doty.

And Doty will admit it straight up.

“I’m hard on myself. I got to be a lot better. I wasn’t myself tonight. I’ll take all the blame for this loss,” Doty said after the game. “This hurts. It sucks.”

Doty finished with just five points on 2/7 shooting overall and 0/3 from three in 28 minutes of action against the Hoosiers. He also had seven rebounds, two assists, and two turnovers.

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Doty had reached double-digit scoring in both of the Orange’s first two games of the 2026-27 season. Monday’s performance was his first in which he didn’t score at least 10 points since December 7 of the prior year.

The Siena transfer scorer is no stranger to Indiana or Power Five competition.

BLOOMINGTON, IN – DECEMBER 22: Gavin Doty #4 of the Siena Saints handles the ball while defended by Lamar Wilkerson #3 of the Indiana Hoosiers during a college basketball game on December 22, 2025 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

He, then-Siena head coach Gerry McNamara, and the rest of the Saints faced the Hoosiers in 2025-26. Doty had 16 points in the blowout loss to Indiana. Doty’s “claim to fame,” by many outside the Syracuse bubble, came as recently as this past spring, when he played all 40 minutes, scored 21 points, and nearly got 16-seeded Siena to the finish line in what would’ve been a monumental upset over No. 1 Duke. Siena lost by six to the Blue Devils in the First Round.

“The margin for error is so small. This one hurts bad. I think we’re the better team. At the end of the day, you got to win the basketball game. We didn’t tonight. So it hurts,” Doty said. “But we got some fire under us. We know what we can do, and (what) we’re capable of this year.”

But against the Hoosiers…

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