Back on Friday, Blair Academy boys’ basketball coach Joe Mantegna announced that Dexter Akanno will be taking an official visit to Marquette before he gets to campus in New Jersey for the 2018-19 school year.
Marquette offered Akanno a scholarship less than a month ago. The 6’4”, 190 pound guard played his high school career at Valencia High School in the Los Angeles area. He’s taking a post-graduate year at Blair Academy, which probably explains the sudden attention for him. After all, Akanno doesn’t have a 247 Sports page, and before he decided to take the year at Blair, he was essentially a 2018 prospect instead of the 2019 prospect that he is now.