FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas men's hoops team has learned who it volition play erstwhile it travels to Nassau, Bahamas, from July 31-Aug. 4.
The Razorbacks antecedently announced that they volition vie astatine the four-game Baha Mar Summer Hoops League, managed by BDG Sports, connected June 18. Though South Carolina, Cincinnati, Texas A&M and Valparaiso are besides competing successful the event, Arkansas volition not look immoderate of the different American institutions.
The Razorbacks are scheduled to look the Bahamas nationalist squad astatine 6 p.m. connected July 31; Carleton University of Ottawa, Canada, astatine 5 p.m. connected Aug. 1; Toros del Valle — a nonrecreational squad based successful Cali, Colombia — astatine 5 p.m. connected Aug. 3; and the University of Calgary astatine 11 a.m. connected Aug. 4.
Both Canadian universities qualified for the U Sports Men's Final 8 Basketball Tournament — the Canadian equivalent of the NCAA Tournament — past season. Carleton won the nationalist title.
Toros del Valle won the Colombian Apertura rubric this past season, defeating Los Paisas de Medellin 3-1 successful a best-of-five series.
The Razorbacks person landed 2 portal commitments this offseason: Furman halfway Cooper Bowser and Georgia defender Jeremiah Wilkinson. Arkansas has 5 freshmen — 5-stars Jordan Smith, Abdou Toure, Miikka Muurinen and JJ Andrews, and erstwhile 4-star Maper Maker — committed for adjacent season.
Redshirt freshman guardant Paulo Semedo volition besides return. Returning helping Isaiah Sealy volition miss clip owed to a genu wounded that required surgery, Calipari announced connected June 13.
“We volition person 1 of, if not the, youngest teams successful the federation this coming season,” manager John Calipari said successful a quality merchandise erstwhile the Baha Mar Summer Hoops League was announced. “With Billy [Richmond] being the lone subordinate backmost from our programme with important experience, we felt similar we needed a travel similar this to physique chemistry connected and disconnected the court. Not lone that, this volition besides beryllium a large accidental for our fans to acquisition a large destination similar Baha Mar, portion getting a archetypal accidental to spot this year’s squad successful unrecorded enactment connected the court.”
Center Nick Pringle exhausted his eligibility. Meleek Thomas, Trevon Brazile and Darius Acuff were each selected successful the NBA Draft.
Karter Knox, D.J. Wagner, Karim Rtail, Jaden Karuletwa, Elmir Dzafic and Malique Ewin person entered the transportation portal. Knox, Wagner and Dzafic person committed to Louisville, Maryland and Connecticut, respectively.
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