On Tuesday afternoon, the Syracuse University men's basketball team saw its season end in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Tournament.

On Wednesday morning, the university officially fired head coach Adrian Autry after three seasons at the helm of the program.

Autry, who was hired in 2023 to take over for Hall of Famer Jim Boeheim, went 49-48 and never made the NCAA Tournament. SU went 15-17 in this campaign, losing 12 of its final 15. They will not be part of the NCAA Tournament field when it's released on Sunday, marking the fifth straight year that the program misses the tournament.

In addition to hiring a head coach, Syracuse also needs to hire a new athletic director: John Wildhack is retiring at the end of June. His successor will reportedly have the final decision on the new head coach.

However, Matt Norlander of CBS Sports reports that SU has already done some due diligence on at least six names.

The current head coach at St. Louis University for two seasons, Schertz has SLU at 27-4 this season. They'll begin the Atlantic 10 conference tournament on Friday against Fordham and will need to win three games in three days to advance to the NCAA Tournament.

He was a star at the Division II coaching ranks before leading Indiana State to the NCAA Tournament twice in three years.

The current head coach at South Florida, he's spent just one year with the Bulls, who are 23-8 this season and went 15-3 in AAC play. Just 37 years old, he previously coached at Arkansas State, where he had consecutive 20-win seasons. He was previously an assistant coach at Alabama and Buffalo under Nate Oats.

A longtime assistant under Dan Hurley, Murray is in his fifth season as an assistant at Connecticut. He's helped UConn make the NCAA Tournament each year in his tenure. He also has stops at Quinnipiac, Post, Arizona, Wagner, Towson, Rhode Island, Xavier and Louisville. He worked with Hurley at Wagner and Rhode Island.

The current head coach at Merrimack, Gallo guided his team to the No. 1 seed in the MAAC Tournament this season before getting upset in the final on Tuesday. He helped lead the Warriors through a transition from Division II to Division I and did so with much success in both levels. He's also been an assistant at Robert Morris and Dartmouth.

McNamara has spent two years as the head coach at Siena University in Albany and just led the Saints to that upset win over Merrimack in the MAAC finals. He inherited a program that went 4-28 and has completely flipped it in two years.

One of the most decorated players in SU history, McNamara had his No. 3 retired by Syracuse in 2023 after a stellar four-year career that saw him win a national championship in 2003 and earn three All-Big East selections. He was also a two-time All-Big East Tournament team member. 

He scored 2,099 career points and is second all-time in program history in steals. He spent 15 years on the staff before leaving for Siena and many fans want to see him get the job.

The longtime "coach-in-waiting" under Boeheim, his time never came at SU, so he left for the University of Washington. He went 118-106 in seven seasons in Seattle and is now head of player development for the New Orleans Pelicans of the NBA.

He also played at Syracuse, averaging 5.7 ppg.

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