Jesse Edwards prepares to make a leap as a junior as Syracuse’s starting center.
The Mad Professor never expected to be here. Growing up in the Netherlands, the sports interest wasn’t unlike most other countries in Europe in the sense that they were enraptured with soccer. That, and his two older brothers took a liking to tennis while he was sure he’d develop into a track and field star before eventually becoming a doctor.
But there’s another reason why Jesse Edwards, the starting center for the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team, almost never made it to Syracuse or as a track and field star as he so hoped.