Believe it or not yesterday was National Signing Day for basketball (and other sports not named football). Ben Johnson is officially inking his first recruiting class as three high school kids are signing their national letters of intent to play for Minnesota.
This current Gopher roster was quickly cobbled together by Johnson and his staff after they were hired last spring. But this is the first round of players who were specifically recruited to come and help build the Gopher program in the way Johnson wants to build it.
One of the key reasons that Johnson was hired was to attempt to do a better job of keeping some of the very talented players from Minnesota in Minnesota.