The SU men check the boxes in a pair of gut-check games and the opening salvo from the Syracuse lacrosse season

They were a pair of games the Syracuse men were expected to win and had to win, and they answered the bell. On this week's episode of "The Orange Zone Podcast" presented by Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux, Tommy Sladek and Samantha Croston debrief after SU's road win at Florida State (00:00-6:50) give praise to a pair of young men showing major growth on the court (06:50-09:20) and take stock of the lessons this Orange team is learning as they hit the home stretch of the season (09:20-12:46). They then look back on the season opener for Syracuse men's lacrosse, a 7-5 win over Vermont (13:44-17:00) and look ahead to a battle between a pair of powerhouses in the world of women's lacrosse when the Orange host the Northwestern Wildcats (17:01-19:05). Of course the team's coming in confident off a stellar trivia performance last week, but as always Producer Brendon isn't going easy on them (19:06-23:59) as we close out another week of Syracuse athletics on this week's episode of "The Orange Zone Podcast". See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.