When it comes to recruiting, it can be easy to overstate the sway a school has over its local territory.
But if you make an exception, it should be for Arkansas.
Since 2004, the Natural State has churned out 10 players that ranked in the top 50 of 247Sports’ composite index, impressive when you consider that the state’s population is 32nd nationally. Over the last two decades, four of those prospects. A pair — Archie Goodwin and Malik Monk — jumped the border for Kentucky. But until Kel’el Ware committed to Oregon in 2022, eight years had elapsed since the Razorbacks suffered a perimeter breach.