Syracuse Basketball: Michael Carter-Williams On Sports Illustrated Cover

The Louisville Cardinals might be the most valuable college basketball team in the nation and the No. 1 overall seed, but when Sports Illustrated wants to move product, they count on the Syracuse Orange to get it done. Namely, Michael Carter-Williams, who made the regional cover of SI for March Madness.

Question: Are those real Syracuse fans or just stand-ins? Anyone want to come forward? And what is the OK-symbol to the eyeball all about? I feel like I'm too old to get why that's a thing.

Thank God no one's wearing platinum...