The Orange Men's basketball team wrapped up its season last week with the Sweet Sixteen loss to the Houston Cougars. The team finished the season 18-10, with a winning percentage of 64.5%. This is the best won/loss percentage since the 2013-2014 season when the team went 28-6.
Despite all the doom and gloom surrounding the program this year, the men's basketball team has made 11 of the past 12 NCAA tournaments. The team has not bee seeded as high as fans are accustomed to, but it is not a case of the team not going to the dance. In seven of those eleven appearances, the Orange have advanced to at least the Sweet Sixteen.
The 2020-2021 team set the school record for the best team free throw shooting percentage, making 78.2% of their free throws. This shattered the school record of 75.1% set in 1983-1984.
The team averaged 15 assists per game. That is the third highest average per game in the past nine seasons.
The team shot 35.0% from three point range. That is the team's third highest percentage in the past ten seasons.
Buddy Boeheim led the team with 17.8 points per game. That may not seem high considering the previous four seasons had scoring leaders average more (Andrew White, Tyus Battle twice, and Elijah Hughes). But consider that no Orange player averaged that amount of points for the nine seasons from 2007-2008 through 2015-2016. That included Donte' Greene, Jonny Flynn, Wesley Johnson, Kris Joseph (twice), C.J. Fair (twice), Rakeem Christmas, and Michael Gbinije as scoring leaders.
Alan Griffin's free throw percentage of 89.7% is the highest since Gerry McNamara in 2005-2006.
Alan Griffin is the first small forward to lead the team in blocked shots. He had more this year than Bourama Sidibe did last year.
Buddy Boeheim's 14 three point field goals in the NCAA tournament were the third most ever by an Orange player in the tournament. Gerry McNamara's 18 in 2003 is tops.
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