'Cuse Returns To ESPN GameDay Stage
8/18/2009 1:05:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Syracuse and the Carrier Dome will host the popular ESPN GameDay on Saturday, February 27, when the Orange host BIG EAST Conference rival Villanova. It's the thid time Coach Boeheim's program has hosted GameDay, a total only matched by Duke, Kentucky and Kansas.
ESPN GameDay will televise programming from 11:00 a.m.-to-noon and 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. prior to the tipoff with Villanova.
The Dome most recently hosted ESPN GameDay during the 2005-06 campaign, when Syracuse squared off with Louisville.
Syracuse and Villanova each made NCAA Tournament appeances last season. The Orange finished the campaign 28-10.
The BIG EAST Conference has made more ESPN GameDay basketball appearances than any other conference with a total of 23 (home and away, and including women's basketball).

















