Aaron Gordon prepares to make his announcement Tuesday. Photo via Twitter, @McDAAG

RELATED: Five-star recruit Aaron Gordon commits to the Arizona Wildcats

For the second consecutive season, Arizona Wildcats coach Sean Miller will be bringing in two McDonald’s All-Americans in the same recruiting class.

Miller signed Mickey D’s All-Americans Brandon Ashley and Grant Jerrett in last year’s recruiting class, and he added Aaron Gordon to the commitment list Tuesday morning after signing Rondae Hollis-Jefferson in the fall.

Until last season, Arizona had never brought in multiple McDonald’s All-Americans in the same class.

Hassan Adams and Ndudi Ebi each signed in the 2002 class, but Ebi went straight to the pros. Mike Bibby and Loren Woods were both McDonald’s All-Americans in 1996, but Woods didn’t arrive in Tucson until after his transfer from Wake Forest.

This is the 36th year of the McDonald’s All-American Game, and 21 players from the game have signed with or played at Arizona.

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Nick Johnson. ESPN3 screenshot

None of Arizona’s basketball recruits was selected to the prestigious McDonald’s All-American team, released Thursday.

Nick Johnson, an athletic guard from Findlay Prep in Las Vegas, was considered a strong possibility to become the first Arizona signee since 2007 (see list below) to be selected to the 24-player team.

(Dave Telep, a senior recruiting analyst for ESPN.com, tweeted that Johnson was among his top four omissions from the team.)

(Mike DeCourcy of the Sporting News tweeted: “McDonald’s All-America team is a joke. Arizona-bound Nick Johnson was one of the 3 best players in 3 different events I saw last summer.”)

Asked Wednesday if he thought any of his recruits had a chance to make the team, Arizona coach Sean Miller said, “I don’t know. I’ll tell you this, if they don’t make it, there are going to be some real unheralded guys play well at Arizona.”

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