Chaz Owens, the son of former Syracuse Orange men’s basketball great Billy Owens, will join the team for the 2020-21 season and be placed on scholarship, Syracuse Athletics announced.
The younger Owens played high school basketball in Pennsylvania. He’s a 6-foot-5 wing coming off of a post-graduate year at Scotland Campus. According to Mike Waters of Syracuse.com, Owens enrolled at Syracuse and began taking classes on Monday. He’s expected to take the final scholarship spot for the 2020-21 season.
Billy Owens played at Syracuse from 1988-1991. He was a two-time All-American with the Orange, including consensus honors in 1991.