Syracuse gets torched for 100 points: ‘We just can’t play defense like this’

Syracuse basketball

A dejected Syracuse Orange guard Joseph Girard III (11) and Syracuse Orange forward Benny Williams (13) walks off the court after their team lost to Colgate. The Syracuse Orange basketball takes the Colgate Red Raiders at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse N.Y. Nov. 20, 2021.Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com

Syracuse, N.Y. – Five minutes into Saturday’s game at the Carrier Dome between Syracuse and Colgate and things were pretty much going the way they had for the past 60 years in the series between these two Upstate New York neighbors.

Colgate, which hadn’t beaten Syracuse since 1962, had missed its first 12 attempts from 3-point range.

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