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According to Jeff Goodman of the Stadium, West Virginia University Mountaineer freshman James Okonkwo will be sidelined for a month after breaking a bone is his foot during practice.

The forward committed to West Virginia I'm June and reclassified from the class of of 2023 to 2021 and arrived to Morgantown in August.

West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins said, "He's far and away the quickest guy off the floor and gets to a lot of balls. I think the more and more I watch him, I was pretty well set with we were going to bring him in and redshirt him and get him bigger and stronger for the following year but he's playing really well," during his media availability on Monday.

This article first appeared on FanNation Mountaineer Maven and was syndicated with permission.

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