It is the third time in as many tournaments that Syracuse landed in UConn’s pod, and that’s quite the bummer for the Orange’s hopes to reach a Sweet 16. Since UConn nearly always hosts, when the committee reaches lower-seeded Syracuse in the bracketing process, they place the Orange in Storrs under the travel principle.

2024: No. 3 UConn 72, No. 6 SU 64
2021: No. 1 UConn, 83, No. 9 SU 47

They also met in the 2017 second-round, which No. 1 UConn won, 94-64, over No. 8 SU.