FAYETTEVILLE — Trevon Brazile will return to Arkansas for a third season, the program announced Tuesday in a post to its X account.
The 6-10 forward in early April announced he was entering the 2024 NBA Draft then entered the NCAA transfer portal on May 1. He took part in the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago in mid-May before withdrawing from the draft two days before the May 29 deadline.
The addition of Brazile, who began his career at Missouri, gives Arkansas and first-year head coach John Calipari nine known scholarship players for the 2024-25 season. He joins a roster that also includes transfers Johnell Davis (FAU), Jonas Aidoo (Tennessee), Zvominir Ivisic (Kentucky), Adou Thiero (Kentucky) and DJ Wagner (Kentucky).
Calipari’s first high school class at Arkansas is made up of former Kentucky pledges Boogie Fland, Karter Knox and Billy Richmond.
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Brazile entered his redshirt sophomore season as a projected first-round pick in this year’s draft despite missing most of the 2022-23 season because of a torn ACL. His stock dropped, however, on account of fluctuating production and time missed because of what the program described as knee soreness.
After an awkward fall in the Razorbacks’ road loss to Ole Miss, Brazile did not play in the following seven games. He returned and played four minutes on Feb. 24 vs. Missouri.
Brazile scored in double figures twice in SEC play, including a league-high 12 points in the regular-season final at Alabama. His best showing came in the team’s home upset of Duke in November, when he added a season-high 19 points, 11 rebounds and 2 blocks in 37 minutes.
He had 8 points, 2 rebounds and 1 block in Arkansas’ loss at Kentucky in March.
Brazile averaged 11.8 points and 6.0 rebounds in 9 games in his first season at Arkansas, and added 8.6 points and 5.9 rebounds in 2023-24.