photo by: John Young

Kansas recruit Cliff Alexander, second from right, hangs out with members of the Kansas men's team Sunday afternoon at the Kansas women's season opening basketball game against Oral Roberts. Alexander's girlfriend plays for the women's team.

I’m sure our own Gary Bedore is all over this and will have more throughout the week, but since he’s in his hometown of Chicago getting ready for tomorrow night’s KU-Duke game, I figured I’d post this quickly so you guys were in the loop.

It looks like Friday will be a huge day for KU basketball recruiting, as three of the top prospects in the Class of 2014 reportedly will be announcing their decisions at 3 p.m.

They are Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones and Cliff Alexander. KU is in the running for all three of them and each made a visit to KU’s campus at some point during the process, with Alexander being the most recent to hit Lawrence, as he was here this past weekend.

The announcements will take place at their respective high schools and, as always, we’ll have all kinds of coverage and reaction right here at KUsports.com when the deals go down.

It’s hard to say exactly what will happen here. Okafor and Jones have spoken often of wanting to play college ball together and Alexander’s as talented as anyone, but it’s hard to imagine all three of them will pick the same school. Then again, you never know. And the timing of their announcements — same time, same day — certainly adds to the intrigue around their decisions.

Okafor, a 6-10, 270-pound center from Whitney Young High in Chicago, is ranked by Rivals.com as the No. 1 player in the class. Jones, a 6-1, 171-pound point guard from Apple Valley (MN) High is ranked fifth and the potential packaged deal represent two of KU’s top targets.

Alexander, a 6-8, 240-pound forward from Chicago’s Curie High, is ranked 4th in the class and has a final five of Kansas, Illinois, Michigan State, DePaul and Memphis.

Okafor’s final four is believed to be Baylor, Duke, Kansas and Kentucky, while Duke, Kansas and several others are in on Jones, as well.

All three are five-star prospects.