The Syracuse men’s lacrosse team will play nine teams in Inside Lacrosse’s Top 20 this season. SU will face five Atlantic Coast conference teams in the top 10 in its first year in the conference – No. 1 Duke, No. 3 North Carolina, No. 4 Notre Dame, No. 6 Maryland and No. 9 Virginia.

No. 12 Albany, Maryland, Notre Dame and North Carolina are slated to come to the Carrier Dome. The Orange travels to Virginia, No. 14 Johns Hopkins, Duke and No. 17 Cornell.

Six of the Orange’s opponents qualified for the 16-team NCAA tournament last season.

Syracuse advanced to the national championship game last season before falling to Duke 16-10. SU finished 2013 tied for the most wins in the program’s 95-year history with 16.

Below is Syracuse’s full schedule. Dates and times are subject to change, and television channels will be released at a later date, per SU Athletics.

January/February

Sat., Jan. 25 – Hofstra/Le Moyne (scrimmage), 10 a.m.

Sat., Feb. 1 – at Towson/Bucknell (scrimmage), TBA

Mon., Feb. 10 – Siena, 7 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 16 – Albany, 4 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 22 – Maryland, 1 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 28 – at Virginia, 5 p.m.

March

Sat., March 8 – vs. St. John’s (Kennesaw, Ga.), 4 p.m.

Sat., March 15 – at Johns Hopkins, 12 p.m.

Sun., March 23 – at Duke, 12:30 p.m.

Sat., March 29 – Notre Dame, 12 p.m.

April

Wed., April 2 – Binghamton, 7 p.m.

Tues., April 8 – at Cornell, 7 p.m.

Sat., April 12 – North Carolina, 6 p.m.

Sat., April 19 – at Hobart, 3 p.m.

Fri-Sun., April 25-27 – ACC Championship (Chester, Pa.), TBA

May

Sat., May 3 – Colgate, 4 p.m.

Published on December 19, 2013 at 4:54 pm

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