Mile-High Matchup Next for No. 7 'Cuse

No. 7 SYRACUSE (6-2) at No. 12 Denver (4-2)
Game Details	Monday, March 16, 2026 \| Denver, Colo. \| 8 p.m. ET/6 p.m. MT
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THE GAME
- Game six of the six-game road swing is here as the Orange gear up for their second contest in Colorado this Monday night against No. 12 Denver at the Pioneers' Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
- Monday night sees the Orange and Denver meet for the first time since the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals in 2024. The Pios won that matchup and advanced to Championship Weekend.
- This Western Showdown will be the first time Syracuse and Denver meet in Colorado since a 13-10 Orange win on March 10, 2002.
- Syracuse is looking to cap off its longest regular season road swing with a bang, entering Monday on a three-game winning streak while hunting its fifth top-20 win of the season in nine games.
- After picking up another top 15 win last weekend at Hopkins, Syracuse moved up in both the USILA Coaches Poll, now seventh, and the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll, jumping to eighth. A new USILA Coaches Poll and Inside Lacrosse Media Poll are due out Monday morning. Denver was 12th in the Coaches Poll and 13th in the Media Poll last week.
- This trip marks a second-straight season the Orange tussle in the Rocky Mountains after a successful trip to University of Utah last season. Under head coach Gary Gait the Orange are 2-0 in the four corner states.
- Syracuse improved to 6-2 after picking off a scrappy Air Force team Thursday afternoon in Colorado Springs.
- Denver slipped to 4-2 after a 6-4 rock fight in Columbus against No. 8 Ohio State on Thursday. Syracuse and Denver share three opponents this season: Air Force, Duke, and Georgetown. Both teams beat Air Force while flip-flopping Duke and Georgetown over the next two weekends.
- Monday night's game is slated for a 6 p.m. MT/8 p.m. start on Altitude and Midco Sports Plus. Brad Thompson and Eric Law will have the call. The game will also air on the Syracuse Sports Network with Tim Leonard and Kyle Fetterly on the call for TK99/105 in Syracuse, through Cuse.com, The Varsity App, and the TuneIn app.
- Syracuse student-radio station WAER will be on hand as well with Alex Burstein and Ben Chadwick calling the game

A WIN ON MONDAY WOULD...
- See the Orange extend their winning streak to four straight after topping No. 19 Penn, No. 11 Johns Hopkins and Air Force. It would be the longest run of wins since four straight at the end of 2025 across the ACC and NCAA Tournaments.
- Improve Syracuse to 5-1 all-time against Denver and 2-0 when playing in the Mile High City.
- Bump Syracuse's road record to 4-2 on the season and would be the four-straight road win on this six-game swing. Syracuse went 3-3 in its last six-game road trip during the regular season (1972).
- Mark the fifth top-20 win this year for the Orange (#16 Boston University, #1 Maryland, #19 Penn, #11 Hopkins)
- Be the 968th win in program history, the second-most all-time among Division I programs.

ALTITUDE MEETS ATTITUDE
- Syracuse will be playing its second game at altitude in a week, though dropping down nearly 1,500 feet to do so.
- Last Thursday, the Orange played at 6,621 feet (according to signage at Falcon Stadium) while playing at 5,280 feet on Monday, according to the rebounding wall at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
- The 5,280 feet are more than double the combined total elevation of the first seven games of the year for the Orange, which comes out to 2,050 feet according to USGS maps available online.
- Syracuse's JMA Wireless Dome sits at an elevation of roughly 560 feet, Harvard's Jordan Field sits at 10 feet while Princeton's Class of 1952 Stadium is around 120 feet. Penn's Franklin Field is around 40 feet while historic Homewood Field, perched on the hills of Baltimore, sits at roughly 200 feet.

Mr. 300
- On Thursday at Air Force, John Mullen picked up his 300th career ground ball, becoming just the second player in program history to surpass that milestone.
- Mullen now has 302 ground balls, trailing Ben Williams and the program mark of 340.
- The Norwell, Massachusetts native is averaging 6.75 ground balls per game this season. If he maintains that pace, he would surpass Williams towards the end of April.

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