Miami is having a good week on the basketball recruiting trail.
It just got a lot better.
Florida Gulf Coast grad transfer guard Zach Johnson, one of the top mid-major players available, said he will play for Miami.
Johnson, a teammate of Dewan Huell at Miami Norland High, will spend his final year of college at his hometown school.
He made the All-Atlantic Sun team last year (16.1 points per game, including 37 in the A-Sun title game, and 3.0 assists). Like Huell, he declared for the NBA Draft, but did not hire an agent.
Johnson led Norland to a state championship as a high school senior in 2013-14. He was named Class 6A Final Four MVP as a junior and senior. At FGCU, he made the A-Sun All-Freshman team in 2015-16, when he averaged 11.1 points and 3.3 assists per game. He posted 11.9 as a sophomore.
Last season, he set career highs in 3-point shooting (39.2), free-throw shooting (78.1), steals (2.0), rebounds (3.3) and minutes (32.4). He shot 46.9 percent from the field, taking 12.4 shots per game.
Johnson, 6-foot-2 and 195 pounds, chose UM over Creighton, Louisville and Arizona.
He will be a major piece of a UM backcourt that lost Lonnie Walker and Bruce Brown to the NBA. He joins sophomore Chris Lykes, junior DJ Vasiljevic and now-eligible transfer Miles Wilson, a sophomore.
UM recently received a pledge from Wyoming freshman transfer Anthony Mack (6-6, 218), a former three-star recruit who hopes to play this year, and sit-out Oklahoma transfer guard Kameron McGusty (6-5, 191), a former top-50 national recruit.
When McGusty (an eligible junior in 2019-20), Johnson and Mack enroll, Miami will have 12 scholarship players. The Hurricanes could add another transfer or prep player to round out the roster.