Arkansas, former Missouri F Trevon Brazile enters NCAA Transfer Portal
Arkansas and former Missouri forward Trevon Brazile has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, On3 has learned. He will have at least one year of eligibility remaining.
Brazile had also declared for the 2024 NBA Draft while maintaining his college eligibility in early April. He did indicate then that he intended to stick with the move to pro hoops, but is now evidently keeping his options open for a return to college.
“Arkansas made a big hire with John Calipari,” Brazile said to ESPN at the time. “I’m happy for the program, but am going out for my dreams. I’m all the way, 100% in the NBA Draft.”
This past season, Brazile made 24 appearances and 21 starts. The 6-foot-10 forward averaged 6.6 points and 5.1 rebounds per game while shooting 53.4% from the field and 33.3% from beyond the arc.
Injuries have been a big issue for Brazile during his time at Arkansas, playing in nine games two seasons ago before a season-ending knee injury and struggling to stay healthy at times during the past season.
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Arkansas and new head coach John Calipari landed a big commitment to end April
Florida Atlantic transfer Johnell Davis committed to Arkansas and new coach John Calipari, according to Jeff Goodman.
The shooting guard spent four seasons with the Owls and steadily improved every year. Last year, Davis set career highs in 34 games.
Davis finished the season with 18.2 points per game, 6.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists, shot 48.3% from the floor and 41.4% from three-point range.
Playing for Florida Atlantic, Davis rose to stardom helping the Owls make the Final Four during the 2023 NCAA Tournament. He was also Conference USA’s 6th Player of the Year.
As a member of the Class of 2020, Davis was not ranked, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He played his HS basketball in Gary (Ind.) 21st Century Charter.
In addition to Calipari landing Davis out of the portal, he added to his new Razorbacks’ staff. Former Louisville coach Kenny Payne is now on the bench as an assistant.
In his introduction, Calipari let the Arkansas faithful know that he’s not going to change the way he treats his players.
“I’m always gonna be a players’ first coach. I’m sorry. It’s about the players,” Calipari said to applause from the crowd in attendance. “I know for some reason people think you can’t really be a coach that wants to win if you’re about the players. No. You can do both. “Every decision I will make will be is this the best decision for these guys. Not me as a staff. Is it the best decision for them? When we’re doing things. How we’re doing things.
“You saw my team this year. We played totally different. Why? It was the best way for that team to play. We couldn’t guard as well as we needed to, but we could really score. But it was how they had to play. And all I can tell you is I won’t change that.”