[1] This rivalry is considered especially fierce because of its extremely even-matched nature,[2][3] and its historic tendency to occur in key NCAA Tournament matches.

[1] This rivalry game has been an annual fixture of the regular season since 1995, nearly two decades before the teams played in the same conference.

[1] Syracuse swept both regular season matchups in that year, including the most lopsided victory in the history of the rivalry.

[9] Between 1890 and 1966, Syracuse previously used orange as its sole school color, complemented only by white, an apparent reference to the Netherlands' House of Orange-Nassau which had originally colonized New York during the Dutch Republic.

[10] Virginia and Syracuse are the only Division I men's lacrosse programs to sport these colors; the founder of Auburn University's athletics programs, a Virginia graduate named George Petrie, adopted the orange-and-blue of his alma mater for that school as well, but Auburn only has a team that only competes in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association.