NBA Draft Room recently released a 2025 NBA Mock Draft, and it has six of the nine Razorback scholarship basketball players being selected with another projected to come off the board in 2026. It’s just an early ‘best guess’ by the outlet, but if it holds true then the 2024/25 Arkansas roster is the most talented, top to bottom, in program history.
The Razorbacks saw three players come off the board in the 2023 NBA Draft, including Anthony Black at No. 6 overall to the Orlando Magic. That’s the highest any Razorback had been drafted since Joe Klein also went No. 6 overall back in 1985. In 1992, Todd Day was the eighth overall selection, and in 1984 Alvin Robertson was No. 7 overall. Ron Brewer also went No. 7 overall in 1978. Sidney Moncreif was the highest pick ever at No. 5 in the 1979 NBA Draft. Moncrief, along with Joe Johnson (No. 10 overall in 2001), had the best NBA careers of any former Hogs.
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NBA Draft Room doesn’t have any Razorback projected to go as high as the aforementioned former Razorbacks, but Arkansas has never had more than four players taken in a single draft. Along with Day in 1992, Oliver Miller (No. 22 overall), Lee Mayberry (No. 23 overall) and Isaiah Morris (No. 37 overall in the second round), were also selected. The Hogs have had three players taken in one draft three other times.
According to NBA Draft room, sophomore center Zvonimir Ivišić, 7-2, 235, is projected to come off the board at No. 16 overall. Freshman guard Boogie Fland, 6-2, 175, is next at No. 19 overall. Freshman wing Karter Knox, 6-6, 225, is next at No. 21 overall with junior forward Adou Thiero, 6-8, 220, ending the first round at No. 30 overall. Arkansas has never had more than three players taken in the first round.
Sophomore guard DJ Wagner, 6-4, 195, is projected as the seventh pick in the second round at No. 37 overall. He is immediately followed by junior teammate Trevon Brazile, 6-10, 220 at No. 38 overall.
Guard Johnell Davis, 6-4, 205, is listed just outside the top 60 at No. 73 overall, with forward Jonas Aidoo, 6-11, 240, at No. 146 overall. Then in the 2026 mock draft, 2024/25 freshman Billy Richmond, 6-5, 205, is projected as the first pick in the second round, No. 31 overall.
Former Razorback Jaxson Robinson, 6-7, 189, is also projected to be taken at No. 52 overall. Robinson is now at Kentucky. Arkansas was also in pursuit of Illinois transfer Coleman Hawkins, 6-10, 215, but finalized things with Brazile instead. Hawkins checks in three spots behind Brazile at No. 41 overall.
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