SYRACUSE -- The start of another basketball season is just around the corner, and one sure sign is the announcement that single-game tickets for Syracuse Orange basketball are now on sale.

Individual game tickets for both the Orange men’s and women’s teams went on sale Wednesday morning at 10:00. The athletic department also says that season tickets are still available.

Tickets for men’s games range from $10 to $35 for adults and from $6 to $19 for children 12 and under. Exhibition games versus the Kutztown University Bears of Pennsylvania on November 2 and Le Moyne College Dolphins on November 9 are discounted to $10 for adults and $6 for youth.

We all remember what happened in last year’s Orange-Dolphins exhibition, right?

The Orange men are coming off a successful season, where they achieved their first # 1 ranking in the Associated Press writers’ poll in 20 years and won the Big East regular season title, finishing with an overall 30-5 record and a loss in the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen. The 2010-11 Orange will feature a mix of veterans and youth, with returning stars Rick Jackson, Scoop Jardine, Jamesville-DeWitt’s Brandon Triche, and reigning Big East sixth man of the year Kris Joseph joined by top recruits C.J. Fair, Dion Waiters and Fabricio de Melo. Andy Rautins (New York Knicks) and Wesley Johnson (Minnesota Timberwolves) have departed for the NBA, while Arinze Onuaku has also graduated and is rehabilitating a major knee injury which forced him to miss the 2010 NCAA Tournament.

The men's regular season home slate gets underway when 2010 NCAA Tournament cinderella Northern Iowa pays a visit on November 12.

Johnson, along with Timberwolves teammates (and SU alumni) Johnny Flynn and Jason Hart, will return to the Carrier Dome for an exhibition against the Detroit Pistons this coming Friday. Flynn has not played this preseason as he recovers from offseason hip surgery, and is likely to miss the game. Johnson and Hart are expected to play.

The Pistons have a minor SU connection as well. Forward Jonas Jerebko, who is currently out with his own foot injury, is the son of former Orangeman Chris Jerebko, who attended SU in the late 1970s. The elder Jerebko is originally from Buffalo and played professionally in Sweden, where Jonas was born and raised.

The upcoming season unofficially tips off with the annual “Midnight Madness” practice, where the new men’s and women’s teams are introduced to the public for the first time and hold light scrimmages, among other events. This year Midnight Madness will take place on Friday, October 22 at the Carrier Dome. Tickets to the event are free and will be available beginning Wednesday morning. In addition, the night also boasts an appearance by the rap group “Naughty by Nature” and hoops entertainers the Harlem Wizards.

Tickets to see the Orange women in action at the Dome are $10 for adults $5 for kids under 13. SU students get into the women's games for free. Seating is general admission. The Orange women won a school record 25 games last season and reached the quarterfinals of the NIT.