Syracuse basketball continues its non-conference docket on Tuesday evening when the Orange will host Coastal Athletic Association ("CAA") school Monmouth from West Long Branch, N.J., at the JMA Wireless Dome.
The Orange's strong start to the 2025-26 season carried onward this past Saturday afternoon, as the 'Cuse used a relentless full-court press in the second half to pull away from Drexel and prevail by 30 points in Philadelphia.
Syracuse basketball (3-0) has Monmouth on Tuesday night, and then the Orange will head to Las Vegas to face Houston, Kansas and a third opponent at the NIL-driven Players Era Festival. We'll have to see if both senior guard J.J. Starling and sophomore forward Tyler Betsey will be available against Monmouth.
How to watch Syracuse basketball against Monmouth at the Dome.
The Orange and the Hawks will tip off on Tuesday, Nov. 18, beginning at 9:00 pm EST, with television coverage on the ACC Network. In their short all-time series together, per SU Athletics, Syracuse basketball is 3-0 versus Monmouth.
The Hawks are 1-2 overall this season, most recently losing at Seton Hall last Friday night, 70-58. In the CAA's preseason poll, Monmouth was projected to finish at No. 6 in that league.
In 2024-25, the Hawks went 13-20 overall. The team's head coach is King Rice, a native of Binghamton, N.Y., who was a standout point guard at fellow Atlantic Coast Conference member North Carolina. Rick Callahan, Monmouth's general manager, served as an assistant under Jim Boeheim for several years in the 1980s.
The Orange's 3-0 start is due to a variety of factors, including the team's tremendous defense thus far in 2025-26. To that end, Syracuse basketball is allowing just 46.7 points per contest, as compared to 70.3 points for the Hawks.
Monmouth does average three more rebounds per encounter than the 'Cuse, and the glass is an area to monitor for Syracuse basketball. The Hawks commit a whopping 16.7 turnovers per affair, and that is absolutely a facet where the Orange can feast.
In 2025-26, the 'Cuse is committing 8.7 turnovers per game, as compared to 18.3 miscues per contest for its foes. In a critical statistical category for Syracuse basketball, it significantly leads its opponents in points off turnovers per game, at 23-5.