Texas has added another Canadian native in Kevin Thomas of Brampton, Ontario. Rick Barnes has now added four prospects from the same Grassroots Canada travel team over the past two years.

Thomas joins Myck Kabongo in Barnes' 2011 class and this could lead to a Canadian reunion with Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph. That foursome won the 2008 adidas Super 64 championship in 2008.

"It's been 10 years in the making," Grassroots Canada coach Ro Russell said. "[Barnes and the Longhorns] originally tried to recruit Denham Brown [in 2003; he ended up at Connecticut]. They recruited and got an initial commitment from Theo Davis [in 2004], but that didn't work out. Over the years, whenever they didn't get somebody, they maintained a good relationship and stayed positive. They kept plugging away, trying to recruit our guys."

"I had been recruiting Canadian kids when I was with Jerry Wainwright [at UNC-Wilmington]," assistant Rodney Terry said. "We had a couple Canadian kids at Wilmington, and it was kind of an untapped area for a while. When I got here, we recruited Theo Davis."

The players have recruited one another to Texas as much as the coaches.

"It's not that Texas gets our guys. They wanted them and they went hard to get them. When they got one guy, the other guys went hard and tried to work on each other," Russell said. "Once a guy commits, he works to get some of his friends from his AAU team to go. That's how they've been successful over the years with our guys."

"We didn't think we were getting Cory Joseph until he called and told us he was coming," Terry said. "There was a week there when nobody had contact with Cory. Nobody. When we got him, I was floored."

"We're setting this trend," Kabongo said. "Kids' dream school [back in Canada] will be Texas because of the success of Tristan and Cory."