'Cuse Hits the Road to Face Rutgers

#12 Syracuse vs. #16 Rutgers
Game Details	Sunday, March 18 \| Piscataway, N.J. \| 1 p.m.
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THE GAME
- Syracuse hits the road in the middle of its stretch of seven-straight games against ranked opponents.
- The game will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus, with Dom Savino on play-by-play and Rick Mercurio on color. Varun Raghupathi and Kyle Fetterly will carry the game on TK99/105 and Noah Eagle and James Colgan broadcasting the game for WAER.

THE RUTGERS SERIES
- 'Cuse and Rutgers renew a series that had been played annually from 1979-2012, but hasn't been played since Syracuse joined the ACC.
- 'Cuse leads the all-time series 40-8, with the Orange winning eight in a row and eight of the last-10 matchups.
- Head coach John Desko is 12-2 all-time against the Scarlet Knights, and no current player has ever faced Rutgers.
- The teams last met at a neutral site game in Charlotte, N.C. as part of the Warrior Lacrosse Classic, with Syracuse winning 19-6 in 2012. The last time 'Cuse played at Rutgers was an 11-5 win in 2010.

AGAINST THE B1G TEN
- Syracuse enters Saturday's game with a 122-60-2 record all-time against the six current members of the Big Ten.
- 'Cuse has faced JHU (26-30-1), Penn State (46-11-1, Rutgers (41-8), Maryland (6-11), and Ohio State (2-0). The Orange has never faced Michigan.
- SU will play a Big Ten opponent in back-to-back weeks, when Syracuse travels to Rutgers following last week's loss to Johns Hopkins.

ORANGE IN BOUNCE-BACK GAMES
- Head coach John Desko has had tremendous succes in getting the Orange back on track following a loss.
- 'Cuse is 42-21 in games following a loss during a season under Desko (this record does not include the season opener following season-ending losses).
- Under Desko, 'Cuse has only had 10 "losing streaks" (two or more consecutive losses).

CARDIAC 'CUSE 2.0
- After setting the program record for one-goal games last year at 11, the Orange have already picked up with it again in 2018.
- 13 of Syracuse's last-20 games have now been decided by one goal.
- 'Cuse has been widely successful in those matchups as well, winning 11 of the 13 one-goal games.

'CUSE CLOSING IN ON 900 WINS
- Syracuse enters the Saturday's game with 898 wins, looking to become the second program in NCAA DI lacrosse history to reach 900 wins.
- Johns Hopkins (974), Syracuse (898) and Maryland (814) are the only three programs with 800 or more wins. Navy is 10 from the plateau and Army is 15.
- There are six other programs in the 700 win club, Johns Hopkins (974), Maryland (814), Navy (790), Army (785), Hobart (764) and Cornell (749). All but the Terps appear on the Orange's 2018 schedule.

NON-CONFERENCE SUCCESS
- Syracuse finished the 2017 season 9-2 against the non-conference slate and opened this year 2-2 after a win over Binghamton and a loss to Albany.
- Since joining the ACC, the Orange is 35-9 versus non-conference opponents, including a 32-5 mark in regular-season, non-league contests.

A WIN AGAINST RUTGERS WOULD...
- Be the program's 899th victory, second all-time behind Johns Hopkins.
- Improve SU's record to 53-17 since the start of the 2014 season
- Give John Desko his 240th career coaching win, fifth among active Division I coaches and 25th all-time at the NCAA Division I level.

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