Before banking in a buzzer-beating shot to clinch a spot for Gonzaga in the NCAA men’s basketball championship game against Baylor on Monday night, Jalen Suggs emerged as a budding football recruit. In the 2020 recruiting class, he was a three-star prospect and the 15th-ranked dual-threat quarterback, according to composite rankings compiled by 247Sports. Multiple Big Ten schools were in pursuit of the Minneapolis native. Those interested included Ohio State. In the spring of 2018, the Buckeyes extended a scholarship offer to Suggs as he was finishing his sophomore year of high school at Minnehaha Academy. Coach Ryan Day, then the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, recalled on Monday some of the early promise shown by Suggs after he attended a prospect camp at the school. “We had a conversation with he, his family and friends,” Day said, “and I said I’ll do the best I can to get a…
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