The Syracuse Orange have five players born internationally on this year's squad, making it twenty consecutive seasons since 2007 that the team has had at least one international player on the roster. In 126 years of Syracuse basketball, there has been an international player on 59 of the teams.
I last wrote about the influx of international players back in October 2018, with a squad that was going to have a school record six international players: Antonio Balandi (Chad), Oshae Brissett (Canada), Paschal Chukwu (Nigeria), Marek Dolezaj (Slovakia), Ky Feldman (Israel), and Bourama Sidibe (Mali).
That record was broken only two years later when the Orange had seven international players: John Bol Ajak (Sudan), Dolezaj, Jesse Edwards (Netherlands), Shane Feldman (Israel), Quincy Guerrier (Canada), Frank Anselem (Nigeria), and Sidibe.