If anything in this life is certain, if recent memory has taught us anything, it is that Syracuse basketball’s track record of developing incoming transfers far outweighs the developmental success that those who leave the program experience elsewhere.
BJ Johnson’s plunge from an end-of-the-bench option for Jim Boeheim to someone who has played for three different NBA teams was an anomaly compared to the handful of recent ex-Syracuse basketball players who left the program to pursue more prominent roles instead of waiting their turn.
As a freshman and sophomore between 2013 and 2015, Johnson saw 5.