Wednesday is National Signing Day for most every sport not named football around the country. Colleges finally get a chance to sign the recruits they have been working to convince to come to their school for in some cases years. That work has paid off for the Minnesota Gophers women’s basketball team who signed their highest rated recruiting class in program history on Wednesday in what is a consensus top ten class in the nation—and they are all Minnesotans.
One of the positives that Mark Coyle and others put on Lindsay Whalen when she took over the head coach job of the Gophers is that players, especially Minnesota players would want to flock to the Gophers to play for such a Minnesota and women’s basketball legend.