Syracuse has fired men’s basketball coach Adrian Autry after the Orange did not make the NCAA tournament in his three seasons at the helm, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday.
Following a season-ending 86-69 loss to SMU in the first round of the ACC tournament Tuesday, Autry acknowledged that Syracuse had underperformed during a 15-17 (6-12 ACC) season in which it lost its final six games and 12 of its last 15 to finish 14th in the conference.
“I don’t shy away from the job that I did,” Autry said in his postgame news conference. “I’m harder on myself than anybody. I didn’t get the results that we wanted.”
The plan had been for outgoing athletic director John Wildhack to fire Autry and for the incoming AD to make next hire, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Autry, 54, went 49-48 at Syracuse, including a 24-34 record in conference play, unable to return a program that Jim Boeheim built into a national power to the NCAA tournament.
The Orange lost 27 games by double digits while managing just four Quadrant 1 wins, and they entered this week with a 1-20 record in Quad 1 games over the past two seasons.
CBS Sports first reported on Autry’s firing.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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