Tessa Johnson, Minnesota's top 2023 girls' basketball recruit, will announce college choice Wednesday

St. Michael-Albertville guard Tessa Johnson has Gophers as a finalist. St. Francis' Matthew Bothun picks North Dakota.

October 18, 2022 at 1:41AM
St. Michael-Albertville guard Tessa Johnson (4) attempts a layup in the second half of the MSHSL girls' basketball 4A state championship Saturday, March 19, 2022 at Williams Arena in Minneapolis, Minn. ]
St. Michael-Albertville’s Tessa Johnson plans to reveal her college choice Wednesday. (Alex Kormann, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The state's top-ranked girls' basketball recruit in the Class of 2023, St. Michael-Albertville guard Tessa Johnson, will announce her college selection Wednesday morning.

Johnson's coach, Kent Hamre, said she would reveal her decision at 8 a.m. Johnson has narrowed her list to three schools: Minnesota, Baylor and South Carolina. She is 25th in ESPN's HoopGurlz national ratings, 12 spots ahead of Hopkins guard 5-11 Nunu Agara, who has committed to Stanford.

Johnson averaged 21.5 points per game as a junior. She was coming back from a broken femur in her left leg suffered before her sophomore season.

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St. Francis' Bothun picks North Dakota

St. Francis senior Matthew Bothun verbally committed Friday to North Dakota's men's basketball program.

Bothun, a 6-9 forward who scores inside and from beyond the three-point line, averaged 25.8 points per game his junior season. He had three 37-point performances in a five-game span and sits eighth on the school's all-time scoring list with 1,048 career points.

Bothun also averaged nine rebounds, three assists and 2.2 blocks per game. He missed the start of last season after having his gallbladder removed.

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