Gophers class keeps improving!
The Minnesota Gophers men’s basketball class for 2007 just keeps looking better and better with each passing day.
Although MinnesotaSportsScene.com was on extended Thanksgiving break – made longer by some ongoing computer problems – just before turkey day, the best point guard in all of Canada agreed to sign a tender with Coach Tubby as highly-recruited Devoe Joseph chose Coach Smith and the Minnesota maroon and gold over all other contenders for his services.
Joseph, rated by most scouting firms as the best point guard north of the border, joins a recruiting class that already was ranked about Smith’s old haunt, the University of Kentucky, by most draft analysts. Prior to Joseph’s signing, the Gopher’s first recruiting class under Tubby Smith already ranked in the Top 10 nationally and the second in the Big 10. With Joseph, the Gophers are now estimated to stand at seven in the nation and tops in the Big 10 by most major scouting services, including, Hoops Scoop Online.
Joseph joins Paul Carter, Devron Bostick, Colton Iverson and Ralph Sampson III as Tubby’s first class for the Gophers. With five scholarships filled, Smith has only one more to full, though he has recruitng an entire starting roster already. Could his first Gophers class rival the legendary Michigan “Fab Five” of the early 1990s? With names as part of that Wolverine time like Chris Webber and Juwan Howard still playing in the NBA, only a LOT of time will tell.
But for now, get out your air horns! Power them with Ingersoll Rand air tools if you need to! Shout for victory, because Golden Gophbers men’s basketball will soon start being world-class again!
