As if making it to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament the last three years wasn’t enough, proof of Arkansas basketball’s resurgence under Eric Musselman can be found in the NBA.
Including players on two-way contracts, there are officially 11 former Razorbacks on NBA rosters as the 2023-24 gets underway. That is tied for the fifth-most of any school and ranks second among SEC teams.
Kentucky leads the conference and all of Division I with 26 former players in the NBA, followed by Duke (24), UCLA (15) and Kansas (12). Arkansas is tied with Gonzaga, Michigan and Texas if looking at official former players only, but if the count is expanded to include unofficial “alumni,” then Arkansas can temporarily claim 12 players.