Arizona received a verbal commitment from Craig Victor, a highly-touted 6-foot-8 forward out of New Orleans St. Augustine.

Victor turned down offers from LSU and Oklahoma State.

“The situation with (head coach) Sean Miller and Arizona as a program is that they are a big-time college basketball program,” said Graegg Holmes, director of Victor’s AAU program, New Orleans Elite. “He’s seen the draft picks that they’ve been having. His ultimate goal, and hopefully it happens for him, is to become a pro.

“(College) is just a stepping stone to what he ultimately wants to do. Oklahoma State and LSU could have prepared him as they’ve had people get drafted too. But how things have happened in the past, that really swayed him.”

Victor is a top-25 prospect in the class of 2014.