NCAA Basketball: Top-40 prospect Zeke Nnaji hosting several schools this week
Four coaches from high-major programs will make in-home visits for Zeke Nnaji. Where will the top-40 player end up for the 2019-20 season?
Consensus top-40 2019 recruit Zeke Nnaji has a very busy week forthcoming. Nnaji will host in-home visits from four coaches (Sept. 17-20) per Adam Zagoria of ZAGSBLOG.
After a visit from Arizona’s Sean Miller on Monday, Nnaji will speak with Kansas State’s Bruce Weber (Tuesday) before welcoming Indiana’s Archie Miller (Wednesday) and Ohio State’s Chris Holtmann (Thursday). UCLA’s Steve Alford is slated to make the trip up to visit the Lakeview (MN) native on Sept. 24.
Several schools have already made a house call including Kentucky, Kansas, Georgetown, Baylor, and Minnesota.
In total, Nnaji has 25 scholarship offers all from high-major schools. This is pretty amazing considering he had no high major offers last year. Wisconsin was the first school to offer the big man while Louisville has shown interest, but has not offered a scholarship.
Nnaji has a smooth shooting stroke with range out to the 3-point line. He also runs the floor-well, using his above-average athleticism to finish above the rim. In addition, he is a fine rebounder.
The four-star prospect has made unofficial visits to Arizona, Creighton, Kansas State, Notre Dame, Indiana, Purdue, Kansas, UCLA Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio State. He also plans an unofficial trip down to Kentucky to visit the Lexington campus.
Nnaji is ranked as the No. 37 prospect in the nation by Rivals and ESPN. 247 Composite pegs him at No. 34 in the class while 247Sports has him listed at No. 31.
Kentucky, Kansas, Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota, UCLA, Xavier and Wisconsin are believed to be most interested in Nnaji. However, he told The Star Tribune that he is pretty open and is looking for what schools fit him.
"“I haven’t really narrowed anything down yet. I’m still pretty open, because a lot of schools have been talking to me. I’m going to start narrowing things down when I take some unofficials. I will see what I like and what fits me. I’ll narrow it down once I get those things out of the way.” Next: Predicting regular season conference champs for 2018-19"
Nnaji is expected to narrow his list down to five at the end of the month. And then set up official visits in October, before making a final decision sometime in November.