Syracuse is coming off a season where it finished 9–11 in ACC play, but that doesn’t matter as much to head coach Jim Boeheim. The only thing that matters is returning to the NCAA tournament for the first time in two years.
“At the end of the day, you play for the [NCAA] tournament,” Boeheim said, via ESPN’s Myron Medcalf.
As for why conference play and the conference tournaments aren’t important, Boeheim said all you have to do is look towards another prominent conference.
