It is the third time in as many tournaments that Syracuse landed in UConn’s pod, and that’s fairly the bummer for the Orange’s hopes to attain a (*16*) 16. Since UConn practically at all times hosts, when the committee reaches lower-seeded Syracuse within the bracketing course of, they place the Orange in Storrs underneath the journey precept.
2024: No. 3 UConn 72, No. 6 SU 64
2021: No. 1 UConn, 83, No. 9 SU 47
They additionally met within the 2017 second-round, which No. 1 UConn received, 94-64, over No. 8 SU.