Syracuse is again out there for a brand new head males’s basketball coach.
According to multiple reports, the varsity has fired Adrian Autry after three seasons. The Orange’s season concluded Tuesday within the ACC event with an 86-69 loss to SMU.
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Autry, who performed at Syracuse within the early Nineties, was promoted to be the pinnacle coach of the Orange after longtime coach Jim Boeheim’s retirement on the finish of the 2022-23 season. Autry had served as Boeheim’s affiliate head coach for the reason that 2016 season.
However, Autry hadn’t been capable of duplicate the success the Orange had underneath Boeheim. The Orange went 20-12 in his first season however missed out on the NCAA event. A season in the past, Syracuse dropped to 14-19 general.
Though Syracuse’s general report was higher in 2025-26, the Orange received one fewer ACC recreation and the season spiraled after a 3-1 begin to ACC play.
Syracuse received simply three of its closing 14 ACC video games and ended the season on a six-game dropping streak counting the defeat to SMU. Syracuse misplaced by 37 factors at Duke, by 20 factors at NC State and by double digits to North Carolina twice this season.
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In early February, Carmelo Anthony appeared to precise his displeasure with the group on social media after the primary loss to North Carolina. The Syracuse nice’s son Kiyan averaged eight factors per recreation throughout 29 appearances as a freshman in 2025-26.
Whoever takes over for Autry will inherit a program that has been to 6 Final Fours however hasn’t been to the NCAA event since making a Sweet 16 run as a No. 11 seed in 2021. Syracuse was the most effective packages within the nation for a lot of Boeheim’s tenure and received the 2003 nationwide championship. However, Syracuse has made the NCAA event simply 4 instances because it was a No. 3 seed within the 2014 NCAA event and was by no means higher than a No. 8 seed in that span.