No. 10 Orange Host Manhattan Tuesday

No. 10 SYRACUSE (5-2) vs. Manhattan (4-3)
Game Details	Tuesday, March 18, 2025 \| Syracuse, N.Y. \| 7 p.m. ET
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THE GAME
- A two-game week is on tap for the Orange this week as Syracuse leads off Tuesday night with an in-state foe for the second-ever meeting between the prorgams as the Orange host Manhattan University.
- Tuesday marks the Jaspers' second trip to the JMA Wireless Dome after Syracuse dispatched Manhattan 16-3 last season for the third Syracuse game of the year.
- Manhattan is the only downstate team Syracuse faces this season (though Syracuse and Cornell will play on Long Island in mid-April) and one of three in-state foes over the next month.
- The Orange are coming off a 13-10 win over then-No. 7 Johns Hopkins, rallying past the Blue Jays on March 9 for the team's first top-10 win of the season.
- The Jaspers head for Central New York with a 4-3 overall record and riding backto-back conference wins over Merrimack and Mount St. Mary's. Tuesday's tilt is the lone game on the Manhattan schedule this week.
- Tuesday's game is set for a 7 p.m. start at the JMA Wireless Dome with ACC Network Extra on hand for broadcast coverage. Ian Nicholas has play-by-play duties while All-American midfielder Stephen Rehfuss '21 will serve as an analyst. Sean Dorcellus '21 is assigned to the sideline for Tuesday.
- Tim Leonard '21 (play-by-play) and Kyle Fetterly '09 (analyst) take to the airwaves on Syracuse Sports Network and ESPN Radio Syracuse (97.7) locally, Cuse.com, The Varsity App, and TuneIn App, as well as Syracuse University student-radio station WAER.

THE MANHATTAN SERIES
- The Syracuse-Manhattan series is a short and sweet one: the Orange are 1-0 all-time against the Jaspers of Riverdale.
- Last spring, Syracuse handled its business against Manhattan with a 16-3 win, with 13 different players registering at least one point.
- In the first and only meeting to date, Joey Spallina tagged the Jaspers for 10 points, scoring a hat trick and tallying up seven assists, handing out helpers to five different players along the way.
- Not only did the offense show out, the defense did as well, limiting Manhattan to just three goals and keeping the Jaspers scoreless over the final 23 minutes and 37 seconds of the game.

TWO HUNDRED²
- Two Syracuse players are within striking distance of the 200-point club for the time at Syracuse: Owen Hiltz and Joey Spallina.
- Hiltz enters Tuesday's game just three points shy of the mark, racking 110 goals and 87 assists for his career, al while carrying a 34.2 shooting percentage.
- Spallina has put away 88 goals during his first two and a half seasons while accumulating 105 assists for 193 points, including 17 man-up goals.
- Entering this week, 17 players have scored at least 200 points during their Syracuse careers. Four hit the mark in 45 games or less: Tim Nelson (34), Tim O'Hara (42), Casey Powell (43), Tom Marechek (43), and
Mike Powell (45).
- Spallina will play in his 41st career game, and should he amass seven points on Tuesday, would be the second-fastest player in program history to his 200 points, trailing only Tim Nelson's unearthly mark of 34 games after transfering from N.C. State.
- Hiltz will make an appearance for a 53rd time on Tuesday, and should he pick up those three points, he will tie Paul Gait for the 11th-fastest to 200 points.

STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE
- The NCAA released its first Rankings Percentage Index (RPI) on Monday morning.
- Syracuse checks in with the 10th-best RPI in Division I.
- The Orange have faced or will face six of the nine times ahead of Syracuse in the first RPI listing: No. 2 Maryland, No. 3 North Carolina, No. 4 Duke, No. 5 Cornell, No. 6 Notre Dame, and No. 8 Harvard.
- Per the NCAA, Syracuse has the sixth-strongest schedule in Division I this year, with all opponents amassing a 61-31 record, a 66.3 winning percentage.
- The Orange also have the sixth-toughest future schedule as the remaining opponents are a combined 35-15, a .703 winning percentage. That is the second-toughest future opposition percentage across the ACC.

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Owen Hiltz

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