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Syracuse has beaten three of the top four seeds already this season, including top-seeded North Carolina, No. 2-seed Princeton and No. 3-seed Connecticut. The Orange could face No. 4 Penn State if both teams win their first-round matchups. The Nittany Lions play Albany. Senior back Iona Holloway said the team can’t look past UMass. “Probably everyone’s looking at the bracket and saying it will be Syracuse-Penn State,”
Holloway said. “But you have to focus on the game that we’ve been given so far, and that’s UMass. So that’s all we’ll be looking at until we beat them.” After the Orange failed to achieve one of its goals this year — winning the Big East tournament — the team’s journey to reach the national championship starts Saturday in University Park against a team it’s already lost to. “I think it’s really great for our team,” Holloway said. “It’s definitely a bit of redemption, and we’re so excited to be going and playing them because we know we can beat them.” pmdabbra@syr.edu
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