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The Syracuse Orange celebrate their win over Marquette in the NCAA Tournament last March. Syracuse will begin the 2013-14 season in August with a trip to Canada.

(Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com)

Syracuse -- On Wednesday, Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim told syracuse.com that the Orange would play a handful of exhibition games in Ottawa and Montreal this August.



The early exhibition games plus the allotted practice time would give Boeheim the opportunity to work with a team that loses three starters off last year's Final Four team and will also see the influx of five new freshmen.

Now, a few more details of Syracuse's trip north of the border are coming out.

Rod Gilpin, the head men's basketball coach at Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, tweeted that Bishop's would play Syracuse in Montreal on Aug. 21. The venue for the game is still unknown.

Excited to be playing the Syracuse Orangemen Aug 21 in Montreal. ACC basketball in August!! Wish they were still in the Big East though! — Rod Gilpin (@GaiterHoops) May 30, 2013

Meanwhile, the Ottawa Sun is reporting today that Syracuse will play the Carleton Ravens and the Ottawa Gee-Gees on Aug. 23-24 in Ottawa. According to the Sun, the Orange will play Carleton on Aug. 23 at Scotiabank Place and the Gee-Gees on Aug. 24 at Montpetit Hall.

Syracuse is expected to play one or two more games in Montreal in addition to the Aug. 21 game against Bishop's University. Expect more updates when the opponents, dates and venues for those games become known.