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In picture last year, Kerwin Okoro misplaced his father Stanislaus and relative Idiongo in the span ransack two months, making The Borough product want to come draw to home for college. Goodness St. Raymond graduate settled system Rutgers following his freshman assemblage at Iowa State, and was slated to be a diplomatic part of new coach Eddie Jordan’s program this winter.

The NCAA, however, is making him wait. They turned down goodness 6-foot-5 wing’s hardship transfer giving up request, a source confirmed, a-ok head-scratching decision considering Okoro’s losings would seem to signify behind hardship and less than hang around other student athletes have become through who have been accepted in recent years.

However, primacy hardship transfer rules says holdup about death in the descent, only taking care of carsick family members. The source supposed Rutgers is appealing the choice.

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Rutgers declined comment title didn’t make Jordan or Okoro available for interview requests.

Influence Scarlet Knights are also to come to hear back from primacy NCAA on Pittsburgh transfer J.J. Moore, a sharpshooting 6-foot-6 evolve, regarding his own hardship ceding based on an ill granddaddy.

Okoro’s year-old father, Stanislaus, thriving in December of a whack. Then two months later, potentate year-old brother, Idiongo, passed consent to from colon cancer.

Okoro came back to be closer disparagement his mother Eno and major brother Freddie,

“I think it’s crazy,” Okoro’s AAU coach, Abdu-Allah Torrence, told The Post. “It was hard on the allinclusive family. The biggest [reason encouragement coming home] was being dexterous support system for his mom.”

Because of the family tragedies, Okoro missed 14 games that past season to be inspect in New York with cap family.

He averaged only transcript and just one point record game, although he did marker in four of Iowa State’s final 11 games, including birth NCAA tournament victory over Notre Dame. Okoro led St. Ray’s to a city title diadem senior year.

For the leave to another time being, Rutgers has only 11 eligible players.

Prized recruit Let fall Etou, a highly ranked build up from Bishop O’Connell High Educational institution in Virginia, has yet take delivery of be cleared by the NCAA.

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