As usual GopherHole consensus grading seems way too lenient. This is either a D or an F class depending on how highly you regarding landing one good player in Nate Mason. The class had 5 commitments and only 1 was capable of starting on an average B1G team. I am baffled by those who chose to grade the individual recruits and came up with a "D" for Gaston Diedhiou. Gaston is the worst player to retain a scholarship for four years in my more than 20 years of following the program closely. He might be a great person, but he had no business being on a B1G roster and Pitino would regularly put in walk-ons before Gaston in garbage time. Bakary Konate vacillated between being unusable and a serviceable 10 minute a game type backup type. A disappointment for a scholarship, but not a Gaston or Josh Martin type disaster In a hypothetical world where the Gophers brought in this type of class repeatedly, they would have nice comfortable spot playing in the opening round of the B1G tournament on a yearly basis. To be fair to Pitino, this class didn't look terrible when he recruited it. A lot of schools missed on Josh Martin who ended up transferring way down to Cal Poly and not really being a stand out there. If Martin lived up to his recruiting profile and was a starting caliber PF, this class would have been in the C+ -B range.
I think the true answer is this class is probably a D-, but I've got to pull this GopherHole average down so I'll go with an F.