The Canadian legacy and everlasting impression that Toronto, Ontario’s Tyler Ennis and Leo Rautins, and Montreal, Quebec’s Kris Joseph have left on the Syracuse basketball program are manifested through the three hoopers being to this day, household names in both Central New York and the country that lies two hours north of it.
Toronto, Ontario’s sophomore standout Oshae Brissett and recent Syracuse commit, and Montreal, Quebec native Quincy Guerrier, are continuing the trend of Canadian hoopers exercising their control over college basketball’s most fierce conference, the ACC.
While the majority of college basketball programs have created a paradigm that deems Canadian players inadequate at the Division I level, the Orange have reaped the benefits.