And Syracuse won the coaches national championship in 1956 led by Jim brown their future head coach and goalie and future indigenous people’s rights activist Oren Lyons[2] The men's lacrosse team competed as independents until 2010 when the former Big East Conference began sponsoring men's lacrosse.

It joined the Atlantic Coast Conference from the 2014 season onwards following the athletics program's switch to the ACC.

In the modern NCAA era, Syracuse has won 10 national championship titles, in 1983, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, and 2009, with one championship in 1990 vacated due to NCAA rules infractions after an investigation revealed that Nancy Simmons, the wife of Coach Roy Simmons Jr., had co-signed a car loan for the team's star player, Paul Gait, in the 1990 season.

[4] Syracuse was one of seven Big East Conference schools that formally began competing in men's lacrosse in 2010.

The other six Big East schools were Georgetown, Notre Dame, Providence, Rutgers, St. John's, and Villanova.