re: Arkansas Basketball Recruiting Thread *Muss Years Archive - do NOT delete*

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One of the biggest bombshells of the Transfer Portal era to date was star Michigan big man Hunter Dickinson hitting the portal late Friday. It would be tough to find a more accomplished player to have hit the portal thus far and his decision to leave is a potentially crippling one for the Wolverines.

His body of work speaks for itself. He’s a two-time First Team All-Big Ten guy, an All-American and former conference Freshman of the Year. After averaging 18.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game as a junior, he’s on track to score over 2,000 points, grab 800 rebounds and block 200 shots before he finishes up as a senior.

A guy with that type of production hitting the portal has certainly set off a frenzy. Maryland – who just hired his former high school coach Mike Jones away from Virginia Tech – and Georgetown were immediately considered potential destinations for the seven-footer who played high school ball in the DMV. He's done a zoom with Arkansas, he's doing one with Kentucky; Syracuse has ties to his summer program and Villanova and Kansas have also been mentioned.

We’ll see how much traction Kentucky or Arkansas can gain, but based off the early intel 247Sports has gotten, Kansas, Georgetown, Maryland and Villanova appear to be in the best shape early in his process.

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Sticking with the theme of Texas raised players, it was somewhat of a surprise to see Tramon Mark hit the portal and announce that he’s leaving Houston. After playing 29.4 minutes per outing and scoring 10.1 points while grabbing 4.9 rebounds per game, Mark’s role figured to grow exponentially for Kelvin Sampson and the Cougars next season.

Maybe he thinks Cryer eventually ends up in Houston or maybe he just wants a change of scenery. Either way, Mark is already down to a top four of Arkansas, Florida, Kansas State and Texas A&M.

Texas A&M is only about 120 miles or so away from his hometown of Dickinson, Texas while K-State has a staff with deep ties in Texas and Arkansas has been mastering the portal under Eric Musselman while Florida appears to be a little bit of an outlier. From sources who had looked to jump in on the Mark recruitment, showing that he can be a focal point of the offense is going to be vital in his recruitment and early intel suggests that perhaps the Razorbacks and Wildcats have the slightest of early edges.

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In the span of just 24 hours, three mid major conference players of the year hit the portal to start the week. Two-time CAA Player of the Year Aaron Estrada of Hofstra, Conference USA Player of the Year Tylor Perry of North Texas and two-time Summit League Player of the Year Max Abmas all decided to go portaling.

They’ll each draw a big crowd and assuming they have them, their NIL agents will be jumping for joy over the interest level.

The biggest of the bunch at 6-foot-3 and 195 pounds, Estrada may also be the most well rounded. Not only does he score, he can really pass and is a strong rebounder for a guy his size. He told 247Sports’ Dushawn London that he’s already heard from the likes of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Cincinnati, Florida State, Georgetown, Kansas State, North Carolina State, Ole Miss, Seton Hall, Temple, Tennessee, Texas Tech and Washington State to name a few.

With Perry, the initial assumption was that he would follow Grant McCasland from North Texas to Texas Tech. We aren’t saying that can’t happen, but It’s far from a sure thing and Perry is absolutely going to look around. He told our Brandon Jenkins that he’s already heard from Arkansas, California, Central Florida, Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Tennessee, Texas Tech and Wake Forest and for good reason. A 17 point a night scorer and deadeye shooter, Perry isn’t the biggest or the quickest program, but when it comes to tough and clutch shot making, few are better.

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It hasn’t exactly been the best of times for the Pac-12 of late. The conference is struggling to find a new broadcasting rights deal, is having top programs like UCLA and USC raided in conference realignment and the overall level of play in the conference has been criticized pretty heavily the past few years. They’ve at least supplied the two biggest portal commitments of the last 36 hours with Washington guard Keyon Menifield headed to Arkansas and Arizona’s mercurial Kerr Kriisa headed to West Virginia.

Admittedly, we missed on our evaluation of Menifield out of high school when we rated him a three-star prospect outside of the national top 150 for the class of 2022. The Michigan native could certainly score and played with a lot of fire, but we weren’t sure about how his skinny frame would hold up in a high major conference. As it turns out, Menifield was one of the most entertaining freshmen in the country and while the 10 points, 2.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists he put up per game are impressive enough, if you stayed up late to watch Pac-12 ball this year, he really had some electric moments and scored 21 points or more five times. He still needs to get stronger, but he’s just the kind of small’ish, irrationally confident and tough dude who has experienced incredible success under Eric Musselman.

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Is that saying we haven’t brought him in by our choice or is it his choice that he hasn’t?

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Baye Fall’s measurements at the Nike Hoop Summit:

Height: 6’10

Weight: 193lb

Wingspan: 7’4.5”

Standing reach: 9’2.5”

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Caleb Love to Michigan

Mizzou fans kicked in the nuts twice in one day with this and Aimaq to Cal

Once Gates loses his homeboys who came with him he may be in trouble.

Bama or pro.

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Signs with G league

You won’t be able to go from G League to NBA draft anymore soon. So that stuff will slow down.

Being a full time professional basketball player not having to play school and getting nba level teaching. If u r an nba player why would u not want an nba apprenticeship you're paid half a million a year for