Gophers recruit and former DeLaSalle star Jarvis Johnson will not be medically cleared to play basketball this season, and there is “no timetable” for determining whether Johnson could play in the future, a university spokesman said.
Johnson suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that caused his heart to stop for somewhere between eight to ten minutes after a collapse at practice in 2010, and he now has a defibrillator in his chest. The university and coach Richard Pitino were aware of his condition but still saw Johnson, a highly coveted recruit, as a piece of their future.