The Drake men’s basketball program landed one of the top five seniors in Minnesota with a commitment Monday from three-star Totino-Grace wing Dothan Ijadimbola.

The 6-6 Ijadimbola picked the Bulldogs, who recruited him the hardest this summer while he played for D1 Minnesota 17U, one of the top AAU teams in the country.

In July, Ijadimbola posted that he had received a scholarship offer from Arizona State. He also had offers from Iowa State and Oklahoma.

Xavier and the Gophers made offers under previous coaching staffs. The Gophers’ Niko Medved didn’t make an offer to Ijadimbola after he took over the program in the spring.

Ben McCollum coached Drake last season but didn’t make an offer to Ijadimbola after he became Iowa’s head coach. Drake prioritized Ijadimbola after Eric Henderson replaced McCollum as head coach.

Playing at the power conference level right away isn’t always the best fit, a fact that helped Drake pick up a potential steal out of Minnesota.

As a sophomore, Ijadimbola contributed on Totino-Grace’s state championship team. He was once ranked as the No. 1 player in the Class of 2026. Recently, he has been listed at No. 4 in his class by 247Sports and No. 5 by Prep Hoops.

Ijadimbola was a member of the D1 Minnesota 17U 3SSB team that finished runner-up in the Adidas championships in South Carolina last month.

He’s the seventh player to commit to a Division I program from his AAU team, after Nolen Anderson (Gophers) and Cedric Tomes (Gophers), Christian Wiggins (Iowa State), Jaidyn Coon (Creighton), Ryan Kreager (Loyola-Chicago) and Max Iversen (North Dakota State).