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Eric Musselman has done it again.
The Arkansas basketball coach last season led Arkansas to its best season in 25 years. When the Top 25 rankings come out for 2021-22 later this fall, the Hogs will almost assuredly be in. CBS Sports already has Musselman’s team at No. 17 in their ranking of every team in Division I.
But it doesn’t appear to be stopping there.
Five-star wing Jordan Walsh, the No. 27 recruit in the Class of 2022, committed to play for Arkansas on Thursday night. He joins fellow 5-star and No. 9 recruit Nick Smith (Little Rock) and three four-star recruits in Derrian Ford, Barry Dunning and Joseph Pinion, all top 100 players, too.
With such highly-rated players, 247Sports has Arkansas’ class as the second best in the country, trailing only Duke with its three five-star recruits.
Muss, as he’s affectionately known in Razorbacks Nation, appears to have the Hogs back in the spot they were in throughout the early and mid 1990s: Arkansas is officially a powerhouse.
Arkansas deserves it in the sport. While football may be mid-pack in the SEC, there is no reason the Razorbacks can’t be, at worst, the second best team in the league, year-in and year-out.
Bud Walton Arena remains one of the best places in the country to watch a college basketball game. The fans, you fans, show no matter who the Hogs are playing. Even in the slightly above-average years of Mike Anderson, these Razorbacks made noise.
But now? Now the Muss bus is rolling and I don’t think it has any brakes.