Philadelphia - First men’s basketball road game of 2025-26.

Syracuse played Drexel in the second game of something called the Autumn Invitational. The first game? Penn State vs. LaSalle.

The most interesting thing about the first game was that V.J. Edgecombe, the Philadelphia 76ers rookie phenom, sat a seat down from Carmelo Anthony in the front row of the XFiniti Mobile Arena. The crowd wasn’t all that big, but there was a lot of orange and a lot of pregame talk about Melo and V.J.

Kiyan Anthony and Edgecombe were teammates at Long Island Lutheran. They had a quick moment when SU came out on the court for pregame warmups.

First half: Syracuse 37, Drexel 32. Final score: Syracuse 80, Drexel 50.

Syracuse turned on its defensive pressure and dismissed Drexel in the second half. How ab

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