I thought Haas got into legal trouble like immediately after the end of his college basketball career for knowingly giving someone an STD or something. Any idea why he's playing in this anyway? I feel like he has no connection to the state of Minnesota at either the high school, college, or pro level, other than playing against the Gophers a few times.
Saw Melvin Newbern's name listed, didn't he play for the Gophers in the 90's? Is he just participating in this tournament as a 40 or 50 something year old?
Other names I recognized were Daniel Oturu, Rashad Vaughn, Geno Crandall, Jordan Taylor, Sean Sutherlin, Michael Hurt, Siyani Chambers, and maybe a few others. Daniel Freitag I think is the only high school kid I saw that the Gophers are recruiting. Don't think I saw any current Gophers either. In the past, I thought I remembered at least some of the guys on the current roster participating in this, like maybe Dupree McBrayer or Isaiah Washington or Jordan Murphy.