Niko Medved Adds Homegrown Transfer to Growing 2025 Gophers MBB Team

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The 2025 Minnesota Gophers men’s basketball roster hit a low point over the weekend. Days after Niko Medved was hired as the new head coach, the roster got all the way down to two freshman from the state of Minnesota, Isaac Asuma (Cherry) and Grayson Grove (Alexandria).

thankfully, it hasn’t taken long for Medved to start his rebuild. It started with a commitment on Tuesday from Colorado State forward Jaylen Crocker-Johnson, who played under Medved for his lone season with the Rams.

Minnesota Gophers men’s basketball adds transfer commit BJ Omot (Cal)

Then on Wednesday, the Gophers received another commitment out of the transfer portal, Mankato’s own BJ Omot, who played the first two seasons of his college career at the University of North Dakota, before transfering to the University of California for what was supposed to be his junior season. More on that momentarily.

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— Bajedo Omot (BJ) (@omot_bajedo) April 2, 2025

As a Fighting Hawk, Omot averaged 19 points, 4.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.0 blocks per game. Last year, he transferred to Cal, where he was averaging over 10 points per game… before he suffered a mysterious “upper body extremity injury” that ended his season after only four games played.

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In 2025-26, he lands back in his home state of Minnesota, and he is expected to be 100% long before the season starts, according to reports that came out at the time of the injury. The Mankato East high school grad first entered the transfer portal on March 23. Prior to his Gophers commitment, Omot heard from Washington, OK State and Iowa, among others.

BJ Omot 🇸🇸🇪🇹 | 6’8 W | Cal Berkeley pic.twitter.com/TOYwRVIqbn

— So Elite Basketball (@SoeliteBBall) November 28,…

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Publish date : 2025-04-02 22:43:00

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