Jones may be a lock!
It won’t tax the Dell memory of regular readers of this blog to recall that Minnesota Gophers basketball head coach Tubby Smith is in hot pursuit of Champaign, Ill., point guard Verdell Jones, who is also being courted by Indiana, Arizona and Kentucky.
Well, even though Indiana might be the school most likely to give Jones immediate starting minutes, rumor has it that Tubby’s rep may land the Gophers yet another top recruit, bringing his class of 2008-09 to a bumper crop of six players. Already ranked as a Top 15 recruiting class nationally, the addition of Jones would push Smith’s first recruiting class for Minnesota solidly into Top 10 status, perhaps as high as Top 5.
Technically, the Gophers have a seventh scholarship available that would have gone to California recrtuit Krys Faber, but when he chose DePaul over Minnesota, word is Smith decided to save that scholarship for his recruiting class of 2009-10. The first recruit he signed for that class is Top 100 prospect Royce White, a Minnesota native.
