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Arizona has offered a scholarship to Zeke Nnaji's cousin, class of 2022 center Elvis Nnaji, continuing a blitz ofย scholarship offers it has given out this week, the first in which coaches have been allowed to contact 2022 targets directly.

A 6-foot-9 center who backed up Zeke at Hopkins High School as a freshman in 2018-19, Elvis Nnaji has emerged as one of Minnesota's top class of 2022 prospectsย (he's referred to as Elvis Ohagwu in some stories)ย even though he is not nationally ranked.

Elvis told Gopher Illustrated last fall that he had been hearing from Minnesota, Iowa State, Purdue, Iowa and Arizona while he also reported an offer from Marquette last month.ย 


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