Brown grad transfer forward, who is from Canada, has heard from Syracuse basketball

Brown senior forward Nana Owusu-Anane, who was an All-Ivy League performer a season ago and is in the transfer portal, has heard from Syracuse basketball, among other schools, according to a media report.

Top national reporter Joe Tipton, of On3, noted in a post on X that the 6-foot-8, 220-pound Owusu-Anane has heard from college squads such as the Orange, Butler, Kansas State, Penn State, Oklahoma State, Georgia, Oklahoma, Mississippi State, Texas, Louisville, Georgetown, Clemson, Ole Miss, Baylor, Kansas, lowa, Arizona State, San Diego State, USC and SMU.

In early October, Brown announced that Owusu-Anane, who hails from Burlington, Ontario, would be out indefinitely to begin the 2024-25 campaign after having successful surgery on his left shoulder

Analyst Jeff Goodman, in an X post on December 23 of last year, said that Owusu-Anane planned to enter the portal as a graduate transfer and was missing the entire 2024-25 term "with a partially torn labrum."

That same day, Tipton said in a post on X that the plan is for Owusu-Anane to enroll at a school "this coming summer and play next season."

Syracuse basketball has reportedly reached out to a talented forward from the Ivy League.

I'll certainly monitor whether any sort of serious interest among the 'Cuse coaching staff and Owusu-Anane emerges, as his hearing from the Orange doesn't necessarily indicate that Syracuse basketball is going to make an aggressive pursuit of Owusu-Anane.

As a junior at Brown in 2023-24, he resided on the All-Ivy League second team after averaging 14.7 points, 8.8 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.0 blocks and 1.3 steals per contest while making 46.8 percent from the field, 68.5 percent from the free-throw line and 31.0 percent from beyond the arc.

In the 2021 recruiting cycle, Owusu-Anane was a three-star prospect who, according to the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, checked in at No. 305 overall, No. 63 at power forward and No. 1 in Vermont within his class.

He played at the Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vt., before finishing his prep career at the powerhouse Putnam Science Academy in Putnam, Conn.

As Syracuse basketball (6-7, 0-2 in the ACC) travels to Florida State this Saturday night, the Orange's 2024-25 roster includes 12 scholarship players. After the current campaign, I believe that five 'Cuse players - point guard Jaquan Carlos, center Eddie Lampkin Jr., guard Lucas Taylor, forward Jyare Davis and center Naheem McLeod - will have exhausted their college eligibility.

The Orange's 2025 recruiting class features four signees at the high school level. We don't know at this juncture which 2024-25 players may end up transferring out of the Syracuse basketball program, or into it, after this season is over.

What's more, beginning in the 2025-26 stanza, the NCAA is expected to allow men's basketball programs to have 15 scholarship players on their rosters. My point here is that ahead of 2025-26, 'Cuse coaches should have numerous scholarships available to dole out, whether to transfers or prep recruits.