Syracuse (17-5, 5-2 Atlantic Coast) will not host its game between the winner of Boston College and Stony Brook on Sunday, May 15. Instead, the NCAA tournament second-round game will be held at Newton Campus Lacrosse Field at Boston College.

As a No. 4 seed, SU should have hosted the game. But it couldn’t because the Syracuse University athletic department couldn’t secure the required block of rooms that the NCAA mandates, said assistant director of athletic communications Susie Mehringer. One big problem that led to this was both Syracuse’s and Colgate University’s commencement ceremonies being held this weekend.

“We’ve had challenges in the past, but usually we’ve only been up against Syracuse’s graduation, whereas this year there are other schools in the area that have their graduation ceremonies as well,” Mehringer said.

The NCAA rules state that all hotels booked for the event had to be within 30 miles from campus, Mehringer said. Additionally, the SU athletic department had to be able to reserve rooms for Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.

The athletic department has been working on finding rooms “for months,” Mehringer said. On May 6, the NCAA was notified that Syracuse could not find enough rooms in the area.

If the Orange wins and advances to the quarterfinals, which would be held on either Saturday, May 21 or Sunday, May 22, the game would be held in Syracuse.