Syracuse Basketball: Breaking down Orange all-time freshman team

Syracuse basketball has had classic teams, players, and moments in history. So we performed the difficult task of putting together a dream team.

Every Syracuse basketball fan has memories of some of the most remarkable individual seasons in program history. Now, what if you grabbed those individual seasons and put them together on one historic team?

But how to rank a season? Players are being selected individually so their individual accomplishments will obviously be a leading factor. But when you go through the Orange’s history just looking at statical accomplishments you’ll have 20 guys on a team.

So in attempts to limit it down to five guys (two guards, two forwards, one center) the impact an individual had on the team’s success that season will help factor as well. Even then it becomes near impossible to limit it to five so we’ve added an honorable mention section that will be awarded to each position.

First up are the top freshman seasons in program history.

Freshman who came to Central New York and had an instant impact. Individual seasons that fans have connected with from the very beginning. Seasons that have shown the promise of what young athletes might become. In some cases these were one-and-done years, others would come back and give two or three more great years in Orange.

No matter the circumstances each and every one of these seasons were memorable, so let’s get started.