Former Arizona signee Emmanuel Negedu to visit campus June 3

When Emmanuel Negedu was released on May 21 from his letter of intent by Arizona, the alarms from a number of college basketball programs sounded loudly.\nAs a rare Top 40 high school player still available in the summer, Negedu made headlines when he announced four schools he would visit in the coming weeks. That tour begins on June 3 in Bloomington, when the 6-foot-7-inch, 225-pound power forward will come to campus to meet with coach Tom Crean and his staff.\nNegedu originally signed with Arizona on Nov. 14, 10 days after Wildcat coach Lute Olson took an unexpected leave of absence from the team for the remainder of the season. The Nigerian native will look at three other schools besides IU – Georgia Tech on June 8, Tennessee on June 10 and Memphis on June 12.\nPotentially playing in the Hoosiers’ favor is Negedu’s Indiana and Bloomington ties. Despite playing high school ball at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., he was a member of the 2007-08 Indiana Elite AAU team alongside IU recruit Matt Roth. According to the team’s Web site, in 2007 they finished with an impressive 29-2 record and an average winning margin of 20.4 points per game.\nNegedu came to United States through the African Hoop Opportunities A Hope Providing an Education Foundation, a Bloomington-based organization. The foundation is designed to provide talented basketball players from a host of African countries the opportunity to come to the United States to use their skills as a means to get a U.S. education. The organization is led by founder and president Mark Adams of Bloomington. Gambia-native and new Hoosier Tijan Jobe also came to America through this program.\nNegedu expects to make his decision by the end of the month.