New Gophers men’s basketball coach Niko Medved is shooting for one of the rising stars this summer.

Four-star recruit Quinn Costello will be on an official visit to Minnesota this week, according to On3. The Gophers football opener against Buffalo on Thursday night will likely be part of his tour.

Costello put the Gophers in his top six schools on Aug. 9, alongside some heavyweight programs: North Carolina, Michigan State, Purdue, Michigan and Texas. He visited Purdue last weekend and will be at Michigan State in September, per On3.

The 6-foot-10, 195-pound prospect from The Newman School in Boston is considered a stretch power forward-type player and is ranked within at least the top 100 in the 2026 class, per three recruiting sites.

The Gophers have two local high school products cur

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