FAYETTEVILLE — Vance Jackson, Justin Smith and Jalen Tate have combined to play 7,170 minutes in 283 college basketball games, including 221 starts, for NCAA Division I teams.
But the three are newcomers for the University of Arkansas.
Jackson, Smith and Tate are senior graduate transfers who signed last spring and are immediately eligible this season. They are the Razorbacks’ only scholarship seniors.
For those who think of one-and-done college players strictly as star freshmen at Kentucky or Duke who leave as first-round NBA Draft picks, increasingly now seniors are one-and-done, too.
The NCAA transfer portal, which allows players who have graduated to have immediate eligibility at a new school, has dramatically changed recruiting and the college basketball landscape.