Syracuse has fired head men's basketball coach Adrian Autry after three seasons, the school announced Wednesday.
Autry, a former SU player and longtime assistant under Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim, concludes his tenure as head coach with a 49-48 record. Syracuse did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament in any of his three seasons.
"His dedication to our student-athletes on and off the court never wavered throughout his time here, and we are grateful for his service and commitment to Orange Basketball," SU director of athletics John Wildhack said of Autry in a statement Wednesday.
"It has been an honor to coach at my alma mater, " Autry said. "I want to thank Chancellor Syverud, John Wildhack, Jim Boeheim, my team and my staff for their support."
Autry's .505 win rate is the lowest among Syracuse's eight full-time men's basketball coaches. His three seasons on the job mark the shortest tenure of any bench boss in the program's history.
"Obviously, I went here," Autry said after SU's season-ending loss to SMU at the ACC Tournament, "I know the expectations that this job comes with. Every day, that's what I tried to do, honoring that."
Autry's teams finished 24-34 (.414) in ACC play, 4-28 (.125) against Quad-I opponents and 2-12 (.143) against AP Top 25 foes. His best season was a 20-12 season in 2023-24, Autry's first year.
Last March, Wildhack stated that the expectation was for the program to play "meaningful games in March."
The Orange finished the 2025-26 season 15-17. The last time SU appeared in ESPN's Bracketology was on February 16 as a possible "team under consideration." Syracuse lost its final six games.
Excluding the 2020-21 season, during which fans were not permitted at games due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Syracuse's average home attendance figure of 17,726 fans during the 2025-26 season marked the third lowest since SU began playing home games in the Dome.
Autry, a well-regarded point guard recruit from New York City, played at Syracuse from 1990-1994. His Orange career culminated with a trip to the Sweet 16 in 1994.
After a stint as a professional player overseas, a high school coach in Washington, D.C. and an assistant coach at Virginia Tech, Autry returned to Syracuse as an assistant under Boeheim in 2010 before he was named head coach in 2023.
The decision leaves Syracuse — which named former vice chancellor Mike Haynie its new chancellor last week — at an athletic crossroads. A new athletic director is expected to be hired in the near future, and among the first tasks for SU's new AD will be to find a new leader for the sixth-winningest basketball program in Division-I history, which faces a five-year tournament drought.
"We are going to move quickly and with purpose," Wildhack said. "This is one of the most storied programs in college basketball, and we intend to hire a proven winner who will build on that legacy."
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