Syracuse drops season opener to Virginia (full coverage)

 The 2019-20 season started with a thud for the Syracuse basketball team.

Or was that a clang? Like the sound of a shot clanking off the rim.

Syracuse opened the season on Wednesday night against the defending national champion Virginia Cavaliers and their vaunted pack-line defense.

Virginia’s defense completely shut down the Orange as Syracuse fell 48-34 in its first game of the regular season in front of a crowd of 22,518 at the Carrier Dome. It marked Syracuse’s first season-opening loss since the 2003-04 season.

GAME RECAP LINKS:

• Syracuse opens basketball season with historically low point total in loss to Virginia (Syracuse.com)
• Virginia 48, Syracuse 34: Orange struggle to score in home loss (TNIAAM)
• Syracuse basketball box score vs. Virginia (Syracuse.com)
• Cavaliers Take Down Orange in Season Opener (Cuse.com)
• Observations, what mattered most from Syracuse basketball vs. Virginia (Syracuse.com)

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SOCIAL:

Melo back home. Wonder how many he could put on Tony Bennett’s defense. pic.twitter.com/XIaFKiuVso

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) November 7, 2019

Family always comes home.@carmeloanthony spoke to the Orange before taking the floor tonight pic.twitter.com/wYAyoyCLFf

— Syracuse Men’s Basketball (@Cuse_MBB) November 7, 2019

First career points for @JG3_____, of course it's a 3. pic.twitter.com/l6G1ylOjp2

— Syracuse Men’s Basketball (@Cuse_MBB) November 7, 2019

Always great to have Dave Bing back in Syracuse! pic.twitter.com/D11NGtqOpa

— Syracuse Men’s Basketball (@Cuse_MBB) November 7, 2019

Tonight's season opener attendance: 22,518#OrangeNation ? pic.twitter.com/GpYmGzLZkE

— Syracuse Men’s Basketball (@Cuse_MBB) November 7, 2019

Jesse Edwards gets in the game and quickly hits a short jumper for his first points in a Cuse uniform pic.twitter.com/B7J5cBlc4z

— Syracuse Men’s Basketball (@Cuse_MBB) November 7, 2019