Whitt returning where he started, announcing transfer from SMU

Jimmy Whitt thought he was headed to the pro basketball draft when he announced he was leaving SMU but quietly entered the mysterious transfer portal and has landed at Arkansas.

It’s where he started back in 2015.

https://twitter.com/JimmyWhitt33/status/1133105367683162113

Whitt averaged 12.3 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4 assists a game, shooting 48.8 percent from the field for the Mustangs last year.

From Columbia, Missouri, he started at Arkansas and chose to transfer to SMU, where he sat a year before playing.

As a graduate transfer he will be eligible immediately, which is apparently two over the 13-scholarship limit, which means somebody is leaving that hasn’t been announced.

Eric Musselman has now signed three transfers who will be eligible immediately in forward Jeantal Cylla and guard Isaiah Moss. Other transfers expected to sit out a year are JD Notae and Connor Vanover, who has applied for a waiver with the NCAA.