In the wake of Tray Jackson’s midnight commitment to Missouri, recruitniks swiftly deemed a rarity in college basketball: a flip.
Technically, those scribes were right.
The combo forward started the day entrenched as Minnesota’s sole commitment. By 9 p.m., he’d announced via his Twitter account — one of several social media platforms where any mention of the Golden Gophers was stripped away — that he had backed off that pledge. Two hours after, Jackson sent out word he was in the fold for Mizzou.
While those events unfolded rapidly, zooming out and reviewing the scope of Jackson’s courtship makes the timing seem less jarring.