The Syracuse Orange have reportedly scheduled a fourth high-profile non-conference game in an NBA arena. Per CBS Sports\u2019 Jon Rothstein, Syracuse is working to finalize a deal with Rutgers to play at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
SU has played inside the Barclays Center multiple times, most recently in 2024-25, when it went 0-3 against Texas, Texas Tech, and Maryland.<\/p>\n
Rutgers, led by 11th-year head coach Steve Pikiell, went 14-20 last season and 6-14 in the Big Ten. It finished 125th in KenPom, the lowest since Pikiell\u2019s second season. It marked the program\u2019s third consecutive losing season after four winning seasons in a row.<\/p>\n
The Scarlet Knights have played games recently at Madison Square Garden as part of the Big Ten\u2019s \u201cSuper Saturday\u201d series, but this trip to Barclays will be the program\u2019s first.<\/p>\n
Having multiple games in the New York market is important for Gerry McNamara in his first season as he builds up the Orange program. Although the Garden is his priority, he\u2019ll embrace the game at Barclays this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mention the Garden. That\u2019s somewhere I want to play. I want to play there almost every year,\u201d McNamara said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been to Barclays a lot but the Garden to me is important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Syracuse will play an exhibition game against Niagara at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, and are in talks to face Siena in an exhibition at MVP Arena as well, per reports.<\/p>\n
More details on the Orange schedule will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Syracuse Orange have reportedly scheduled a fourth high-profile non-conference game in an NBA arena. Per CBS Sports\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,93635],"class_list":["post-239551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-syracuse-mens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}