Syracuse Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:33:46 PDT

For the second consecutive year, the Orange wound up in the NIT. That wasn't any less disappointing to the players, but it was a very different crew in 2007-08. And a very different future may be in store in coming years.

The 2006-07 squad that lost in the NIT quarterfinals was a senior-dominated crew that left campus never having quite reached its potential. The 2007-08 team, on the other hand, was nothing but potential. By the time the Big East season began, injuries left Paul Harris as the only starter in the playing rotation from a year ago, and even he had switched from forward to guard.

Only seven scholarship players were available to Boeheim for much of the Big East slate.