Syracuse continued a frustrating start to the season on Wednesday with a loss to in-state rivals Albany, 73-70, on a last-second 3-pointer by Lilly Phillips. With the loss, Syracuse fell to 2-3 on the season despite playing all five games at home against a fairly comfortable schedule.
Losing to the Great Danes was the last straw for Orange coach Felisha Legette-Jack, who went on one of the more memorable rants in recent college basketball history during her postgame press conference. She called out her team for not being locked in, but also lit into the fanbase for its lack of support.
The official attendence on Wednesday was 2,038, though the actual crowd seemed smaller than that.
Here is Legette-Jack’s opening statement in full:
“This is what I’ve been trying to tell our young people on this team. Nobody cares about our program. Nobody cares about women’s basketball. It’s not nobody’s fault, the laughing and all that fun stuff, but nobody is into it like we are and that’s OK. But I’m trying to get our kids to understand we’ve got to be so locked into us that we don’t see that the fan base is like 12 people here. We can’t see people that’s not on the court not really locked in. Because…
