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DePaul offers 2019 four-star Francis Okoro, the top player in Illinois

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Thursday was a busy day for Big East recruiting, as our homepage will tell you.

It doesn’t look like Friday’s going to be a day off, either!

DePaul has gone and offered the class of 2019’s top player in the state of Illinois. That being Francis Okoro, a 6-foot-9, 225-pound power forward hailing from Normal who currently attends Normal Community West High School.

The news of Okoro’s offer from the Blue Demons was first reported by Scott Burgess.

Okoro rates higher than the likes of Chicago Academy’s Markese Jacobs (a Kansas commit), St.