Sudbury Five: New for 2022
The new NBL Canada season will see a host of new players who will be hitting the Canadian boards for the first time. Here are the fresh faces for the Sudbury Five in 2022:
Jeremy Harris
6'7 Forward from Greensboro, North Carolina
Averaging 15.5 points per game for Page High School, Harris then played for the Gulf Coast Commadores. 18.7 points, 5.2 boards and 3.1 assists in 28 games as a sophomore saw him named the second-best JUCO player and receive Panhandle Conference honours. It earned him a place on the Buffalo Bulls, for whom he started every game as a junior, had 17 straight double-digit games and was the MAC leader in three-point percentage. He won two all-conference team honours and was MAC tournament MVP in 2019.
Harris made two NCAA tournament appearances with the Bulls: the first time beating four seeds Arizona Wildcats before being knocked out by Kentucky in round two. The following season, Harris's senior year, he put up a double-double of 21 points and 10 rebounds in Buffalo's 91-74 defeat of Arizona State, but the team again lost in round two, this time to Texas Tech.
Harris scored 22 points in his professional debut for Atomeromu in Hungary, who he played nine games for in 2019-20. He followed that with a standout season with Boras in Sweden: scoring in double digits in two thirds of games, recording three double-doubles and a season-high 23 points against the Norrkoping Dolphins.
Tyrell Gumbs-Frater
6'3 Guard from Toronto
A product of the prestigious basketball program of St. Benedicts High in New Jersey, Gumbs-Frater moved on to the Odessa Wranglers, with whom he was an NJCAA quarter-finalist.
His time there caught the attention of the Coastal Chanticleers in the NCAA, who he joined as a junior and was one of their leading scorers and a three-point leader in the Sun Belt conference. He repeated his leading outside shooting his senior year where, on 22 February 2020, he posted a career-best 33 points - which included nine threes - against South Arkansas. He will be making his professional debut with Sudbury this season.
Zena Edosomwan
6'9 Centre from Los Angeles
Born in Los Angeles to Nigerian parents, his state title victory with Harvard-Westlake as a senior earned him a number of NCAA offers. Edosomwan accepted a place with the Harvard Crimson, with whom he became a recurring starter in his second season. As a junior, Edosomwan compiled five double-doubles, had his career game with 25 points and 16 rebounds against the Oklahoma Sooners and was named to the All-Ivy League second team.
Upon graduating he took a step back to focus on his business interests, running the college profiling company Unfiltered Network, which he created in his senior year. In 2020 he made the move back to basketball, playing for Jalisco in Mexico and joining the player pool for the Raptors 905, ultimately remaining in Canada to join up with the Sudbury Five.
Sudbury then have assembled a decorated and celebrated supporting cast who have a myriad of experience from many different levels of basketball to give their new team the edge in 2022. Check back here regularly to see how their new recruits fare in their first basketball season in Canada.
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