The Syracuse Orange are moving on from head coach Adrian Autry after three seasons per a report by CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein.
We’ll wait for official word from Syracuse, but the expected is happening now that the Orange season has ended.
Over Autry’s three seasons, Syracuse never made the NCAA Tournament, ushering in the first two graduating classes of SU students to not see the Orange play in the NCAA Tournament since
the early 1970’s. Syracuse finished the 2025-26 season with a 15-17 record, going 6-12 in ACC play. For the three seasons, Autry went 49-48, and 22-45 in conference play.
While Autry will be remembered as one of Syracuse’s best ever point guards for his play in the early 1990’s under Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim, he didn’t fare quite as well as his mentor’s successor.
He inherited a young team in his first season, and won 20 games, but never truly sniffed the NCAA Tournament in that season, as the team finished with poor metrics thanks to blowout losses to Wake Forest, North Carolina, Duke, Virginia, and more. While the Orange defeated a North Carolina team that earned a 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, it wasn’t enough to put Syracuse in the bubble conversation.
His second season started off with close wins over Le Moyne, Colgate, and Youngstown State, setting the tone for a year in which Syracuse wouldn’t be competitive with the best teams on its schedule. Tennessee, Maryland, Louisville, and Duke all defeated the Orange by 24 or more points. The .424 winning percentage was the worst for the program since 1968-69, and the .350 conference winning percentage was the worst since the Orange first joined a conference in 1979-80.
In year three, Syracuse started with three blowout wins, but after squeaking by Monmouth, lost all three games in the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas. The win over Tennessee on December 2 could’ve been a turning point, but the Orange were unimpressive in the buy games that followed, including a loss to Hofstra. In ACC play, Syracuse suffered bad losses to Boston College and then dropped their final six games, sealing Autry’s fate.
Earlier this year, a survey by the Field of 68 ranked the Orange head coaching job the 6th best in the ACC, meaning that Syracuse should be competitive for some of the top coaching candidates of the cycle. We’ll have plenty more on who SU should be looking to hire in the coming days.
