9:25 a.m. ET: Syracuse has moved on from Autry, according to the Syracuse Post-Standard, though the school has not confirmed it at this time.

9:00 a.m. ET: According to Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports, Syracuse University is expected to part ways with men's basketball coach Adrian Autry on Wednesday.

If and when this becomes official, it will come after a very disappointing season that saw the Orange go 15-17 overall, finish as the No. 14 seed in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and lose in the first round of the ACC Tournament on Tuesday afternoon.

The Orange were beaten 86-69 by SMU in Charlotte, N.C. They finished under .500 for just the sixth time in program history and have now missed the NCAA Tournament for five consecutive seasons.

Autry has been at the helm for three seasons since taking over for Hall of Famer Jim Boeheim, who he played for as a member of the Orange in the early 1990s. He's gone under .500 in each of the last two after going 20-12 in his first season.

This year's version of the Orange had a lot of talent, securing the commitments of freshmen like Kiyan Anthony and Sadiq White, as well as getting Naithan George, Nate Kingz and Tyler Betsey in the transfer portal, but the team just couldn't consistently gel. It was especially apparent offensively and especially apparent in conference play, where the Orange went 6-12 in the regular season.

A soon-to-be-firing is one of several questions now looming for the SU athletic department, who also needs to hire a new athletic director. John Wildhack is leaving at the end of June, and the Orange have not found a successor yet.

It's fair to wonder how this men's basketball situation impacts the athletic director situation as well. Is Wildhack going to be the one to fire Autry, and then hire the new coach, saddling a new AD with the consequences of his decision? Or, is Wildhack going to fire Autry and then hire a new athletic director, allowing them to make the decision? That could happen, but it would be an awfully big hire for someone who has just started in a key position.

Those are certainly questions for another day, but for now, the focus is on the direction of the men's program. While Syracuse has lost its luster over the last five years, it's still a good job in a great conference with a lot of history.

Provided SU moves quickly and decisively, it should have no shortage of candidates for the position, and coaches who succeed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament will certainly be on the list of people that the Orange are interested in.

More to come...

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