Syracuse was going to have its hands full as it was.
If the Orange were able to get past a higher-seeded Florida State team in the ACC tournament quarterfinals, a matchup with top-seeded Duke awaited them on the other side. The last thing they needed to do was make things harder on themselves.
But that’s exactly what Buddy Boeheim did when he lost his cool in the heat of Wednesday’s blowout of FSU and landed a punch on an unsuspecting opponent.