Chris Silva and AJ Lawson are two of the best players to come through the South Carolina basketball program in recent memory. Silva was a key contributor on the Final Four team in the 2016-2017 season and was a senior when a skinny kid named AJ Lawson graduated high school early and joined the Gamecocks.
The two international-born players (Silva is from Gabon, while Lawson is Canadian) played just one season together in Columbia, but the Gamecocks were a good squad. A bad out-of-conference showing had USC thinking they would be on the outside looking in come NCAA Tournament time, but a great record in SEC play had Gamecock fans thinking about going dancing.