Okoro Reaching His Goals Thanks To Attitude, Work Ethic

Among the steps newcomers to the Oregon basketball team take during orientation is to provide biographical information: Full name, hometown and, if available, an academic major.

As often as not, new Ducks arrive with little idea of what subjects they'll want to pursue in the classroom. Most guys stick with "undeclared" initially. Francis Okoro is not most guys.

This past fall, a UO staffer was assembling bio information for the Ducks' freshmen. A couple others had settled for "undeclared" as a major. Presumably, Okoro was asked, that would be the case for him as well?

"No," Okoro answered emphatically. "Computer science."

Okoro arrived at Oregon a year early after reclassifying from a class of…