New U of M basketball coach Ben Johnson returns to his roots

In the mid 1990s, Ben Johnson was an eighth-grader seeking admission to DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis. Even then, the school’s admissions director, Mike O’Keefe, himself an alumnus (1978), saw potential that resulted in, more than two decades later, Johnson being named the men’s head basketball coach at the University of Minnesota March 22. 

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