Syracuse Pulls Away from Stony Brook in Season-Opening Win

By Jake Klein | @kleinjake_

After Stony Brook Women’s Basketball cut Syracuse’s lead to five points late in the third quarter of Tuesday’s season-opener, Orange head coach Felisha Legette-Jack called a timeout, gathered the troops on the bench, and the Orange responded after that break with a 10-0 run en route to a 74-50 win. 

SU is 1-0 on the 2025-26 season.

“They’re saying their dreams are more important than yours,” Legette-Jack said when asked what she told her team during that timeout. “How are you going to respond to that? Right now your character is in the balance.

“And they responded.”

The first win of the season for SU also marked the 400th in the career of its head coach.

“We would run through a wall for Coach Jack and she’d do the same for us,” said SU guard Dominique Darius, who transferred in from USC to play for Legette-Jack. “To help her get that 400th win is historic. Not a lot of coaches can say they did that, so I’m really proud and appreciative to be apart of that.”

“It’s not something I strived to do,” said Legette-Jack, who previously spent time as head coach at Hofstra, Indiana, and Buffalo. “Of course I’m a winner, I want to win, but more importantly I want to be around these young people and watch their dreams come true.”

Coach Jack goes for career win number 401 on Friday when Syracuse hosts UAlbany — a team the Orange lost to last season. That game starts at 7 p.m.