After two consecutive losing seasons, the Minnesota State Moorhead men's basketball team has drummed up 11 new recruits.
The Dragons fortified their recruiting class Thursday, announcing the signing of five players to national letters of intent. The new signings come one month after the Dragons picked up six other recruits.
A pair of NCAA Division I transfers headline the second recruiting batch.
Guards Cedrick Hensley (University of Houston) and Marcus Ebow (Sam Houston State) each have one year of eligibility remaining.
The 6-foot-4 Hensley was listed among ESPN's top 84 high school players in 2001-02.
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He started five games in three seasons at Houston. Last year he averaged 3.4 points per game.
Ebow, a former Texas Class 5A, all-state second-team selection, was a three-year letterman at Sam Houston State. However, an offseason back injury limited the 6-4 point guard to nine games last season.
Barnum (Minn.) High School guard A.J. Palmer (6-3) and Willmar (Minn.) High School forward Peter Grahn (6-6) give the Dragons two additional high school recruits.
Palmer averaged 21 points and six rebounds last season.
Grahn averaged about 10 points and six rebounds as the Cardinals compiled a 24-3 record.
Justin Ewert, a 6-foot-6 transfer from Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, N.D., rounds out the new group of recruits.
Ewert, a native of Anamoose, N.D., averaged 10 points and eight rebounds last season as a sophomore.
In May, MSUM signed transfers Tranell Bridges (Kankakee Junior College, Ill.) and James Crowder (High Point, N.C.) along with high school recruits Adam Holte (Glyndon, Minn.), David Olson (Lindstrom, Minn.), Kyle Price (Osakis, Minn.) and Adam Ruis (Milaca, Minn.).
