How to watch Syracuse basketball host College of Saint Rose in exhibition

Syracuse basketball will wrap up its two-game exhibition series this Wednesday evening on the Hill.

On November 1, the Orange will host the Division II College of Saint Rose, which is located in Albany, N.Y., and is a member of the Northeast-10 Conference.

The ‘Cuse and the Golden Knights are scheduled to tip-off beginning at 7 pm from the JMA Wireless Dome, with live-streaming coverage on both the ACC Network Extra and ESPN+.

Last Friday night, in the unofficial start to the Adrian Autry era, the first-year Syracuse basketball head coach guided his team to an 81-68 win over Division II Daemen from the Buffalo area in an exhibition.

Officially, the Orange will commence its upcoming 2023-24 season on Monday, Nov. 6, when the ‘Cuse welcomes New Hampshire to Central New York.

Syracuse basketball has another exhibition on the horizon against the College of Saint Rose.

Let’s look at the Golden Knights a bit further. In 2022-23, they went 9-20 overall, including a 3-17 mark in conference competition.

The College of Saint Rose’s 2022-23 season came to an end in late February, when the Golden Knights, as the No. 12 seed, fell in the first round of the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament to the No. 5 seed, Southern Connecticut State, by a final count of 85-71.

This past off-season, the Golden Knights saw several of its top scorers from 2022-23 enter the NCAA’s transfer portal, so the 2023-24 roster does include some new faces.

One College of Saint Rose player to monitor in this upcoming exhibition is sophomore guard Latiek Briscoe, a  6-foot-2, 175-pound player out of New York, N.Y.

In 2022-23, he averaged 10.9 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game, while connecting on 42.4 percent from the field, 33.8 percent from beyond the arc, and 65.5 percent from the free-throw line.

The Golden Knights are led by a tremendous head coach, Brian Beaury, who in May of this year agreed to return to the helm of the College of Saint Rose.

Previously, he served as the team’s head coach for 32 seasons, and he compiled a 643-226 career record while the Golden Knights qualified for the post-season in 31 of his 32 terms, winning eight conference titles, according to the school’s athletics department Web site.

"Beaury retired as the squad’s head coach in 2018 for medical reasons, but now he’s back. In May, regarding the College of Saint Rose competing at Syracuse basketball in an exhibition, he said via a press release, “Playing against a team of that quality in the Dome, first and foremost, it’s the experience. We’ve also had a couple of competitive games with them (in the past) and we are looking forward to showcasing our program on this stage.”"

For the Orange, it proved a lot of fun to watch the team in its first exhibition at the start of the Autry era. The ‘Cuse was in man-to-man defense a lot, and the team pushed the ball out in transition a ton.

Autry, in that victory over Daemen, played nine of his 13 scholarship players. A couple of guys are dealing with minor injuries, Autry said, according to media reports, but nothing appears to be too serious, other than sophomore guard Chance Westry being out indefinitely.

Certainly, I’m curious as to whether sophomore point guard Judah Mintz will suit up versus the College of Saint Rose after not playing in the first exhibition. What’s more, sophomore power forward Maliq Brown was highly efficient versus Daemen, but he only played a handful of minutes.

In 2023-24, the Orange roster is filled with depth at every position group, so I’m not overly worried about anything at this juncture. The key is for the roster to be fully healthy, or as close to it as possible, when the ‘Cuse gets things going for real on November 6 versus New Hampshire.