Overview
- Tipoff is set for 3:30 p.m. ET at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia as part of the Basketball on Broad doubleheader streaming on Peacock.
- Syracuse enters 2-0 after two lopsided wins to open the season, while Drexel is 1-2 following a high-scoring road loss.
- Starling, last season’s leading scorer, will miss a second straight game with a right leg injury sustained in the opener.
- Drexel fell 90-83 at Colgate on Tuesday, with Shane Blakeney scoring 24 points as the Dragons shot well from three after halftime.
- Syracuse leads the all-time series 4-1, including a 75-60 win in 2021, with the first meeting a 69-58 Orange victory in the 1996 NCAA second round.