Syracuse took a road trip down to Virginia to play the Hokies of Virginia Tech. They are not known as one of the elite teams across the country, but they were able to defeat Miami who nearly beat Syracuse. As the game began the Orange were calm and control of the game. In the first half they hit many jump shots with two early threes from Trevor Cooney and some nice takes by Jerami Grant. The 2-3 was not stifling, but it did hold Virginia Tech to 29 points in the first half as they lead 35-29. The second half was pretty similar and Syracuse's consistent efforts drove them to victory. Grant had an absolute monster block to go along with his 12 points and 10 rebounds. C.J. Fair played another very solid game dropping 17 points and 6 rebounds. Tyler Ennis continued his impressive freshman campaign with 13 and 7 dimes and Michael Gbinije poured in a solid 8 points off the bench. Overall this game was not very exciting which was to be expected. The one main area of concern for the Orange is their poor foul shot percentage shooting a measly 54% at the line against Virginia Tech. With some of the challenging games on their schedule those foul shots will become a lot more important and may be the difference between winning and losing. They are home against a very strong North Carolina team lead by the tremendous guard-forward duo of Marcus Paige and James Michael-McAdoo.
Player of the game and X Factor for the Orange, Jerami Grant
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