2026-2027 Razorback basketball

[Pig Benis]

Can we go get a legit 5 please? Hopefully Cal has already poached one. Portal opens April 7 I believe.

[Pig Benis]

https://x.com/adamford92/status/2037739323408163234

[vegashog]

we recruited him pretty hard last year. still a little raw on the offensive end, but we should have the scoring to make up for that.

[red death]

It's clear we need a huge white monster from Europe.  Those guys are built different.  The Euro guys are skilled.  That 7'2 Az guy shooting hook shots is undefendable.  The Sylla kid is still too raw on offense, like a lot of American bigs.

It's a world wide recruiting season.  I hope Cal offering our big guy Elmer pays off with that pipeline.

[Barton Fink]

It's going to be interesting to see who returns. Hopefully we can get 3 back between BR3, DJ, Knox, Ewin, and Thomas. I'd like to see Semedo and Sealy return as well. That would leave 2-3 portal additiona.

[buff2.0]

Imagine that Big Z guy on an SEC team.

[vegashog]

the one that averaged less than 7 points and 5 boards or his brother.

[Barton Fink]

Guys like Z and Ewin can work as a 5 if you have physical 4 that can really rebound alongside them. We need to land one of those guys on the portal.

[DirkPiggler]

Guys like Z and Ewin can work as a 5 if you have physical 4 that can really rebound alongside them. We need to land one of those guys on the portal.

Exactly right.   You can run them with a 250 pound Rose Wallace body type.  They won't work with Brazile paired with them.   Not to say that Brazile is a bad player...he isn't, but he wasn't the right fit. 

[Olhickoryhog]

I have absolutely no inside knowledge, and I really don't follow portal season very closely so I'm sure most of this will be wrong come October

Out of Eligibility (although maybe just a TRO and sympathetic judge from coming back for one year)
Brazile
Pringle

Should be out of eligibility but might be able to Diego Pavia there way back since they played a year of JUCO
Ewin

100% going pro
Acuff Jr
Thomas

75% coming back-25% going pro
Richmond III

50% coming back- 50% hitting the portal
Knox

80% coming back-20% hitting the portal
Wagner
Sealy

Already signed
Smith Jr.
Andrews
Toure

Absolute need
5
Stretch 4

Would be really nice if we can find the money (and minutes)
An elite outside shooter
Another post

I honestly have no idea how much money Cal and the GM have to play with for next year.  I also have no idea how much some of these players on the fence (like Ewin, Richmond, or Knox) would command to come back.

Here is my best guess for next years team at the beginning (I would assume the 5 star freshman will find more playing time as the season progresses):

Starters
Wagner
Smith Jr.
Richmond III
Portal 4
Portal 5

Significan bench minutes
Ewin
Andrews
Toure
Hopefully a portal 4/5

Will get some minutes and could get significant minutes if an injury happens or they develop more
Sealy

Its fool's gold to predict anything until portal season opens and closes, but this looks like a top 4 SEC/top 20 national team to me especially if we can hit on the portal bigs.

[TC]

Great post 

[Pig Benis]

That was a good post. If we could somehow get Thomas back along with a legit 4 and 5 I think we'd be top 10.

[flash23]

I, too, have no inside knowledge, but I'm not sure I'm sold on Thomas definitely not coming back. This is going to be a stacked draft, and he might be better served coming back and playing another year.

If I had to guess, I'd say Richmond, Wagner, Knox and Ewin will all return. I wouldn't be too upset to see Ewin transfer and grab 2 elite bigs in the portal. That's literally all this team was missing for us to compete with Arizona. We still put up almost 90 against them.

[Barton Fink]

I REALLY like JSJ. He's not gonna put up numbers that equal Acuff, but he plays really good winning basketball. Watching his HS games you can tell he's a great teammate.

With the right guys around him, we could be really good next year.

[vegashog]

no one got called out by cal more than ewin. almost weekly, and it was always his effort.

be interesting to see where he stands if there happens to be a better option pop up in the portal. personally i'm not sure he's a lock to come back. cal does seem to like him when he actually gives a shit but if he didn't get the message after 37 games, i can see spending the money elsewhere.

who knows, portal season is always kinda fun to me.

[Barton Fink]

Tonight's scrimmage

https://youtu.be/oLz9SZV7TlE?si=KnBouR9b1Hs4reQb

[vegashog]

from the basketball guy on biddy's board fwiw.

wagner will come back, thomas will declare, richmond might declare just to go thru the process like knox did last year, looks like they want ewin back. said knox wants to come back but who they can get in the portal and how the money shakes out will determine if that happens. no idea on the end of the bench guys although semedo will more than likely be back.

as of right now from the portal they are looking for a shooter and two 'bigs', a stretch 4 to replace brazile, and a rim protector. obviously the numbers could change depending on who ends up leaving.

[Hogfan58]

We need more than a 7 man playing roster

[Lurk]

We need more than a 7 man playing roster

You can't play tough defense with 7 players. We also need a taller Corliss type. We were too light to play with the big boys.

[vegashog]

with knox and sealey we played 9.