NCAA Basketball: Analyzing USC transfer Elijah Weaver’s final 3 options

Arkansas

The Razorbacks guard situation in 2020-2021 is 100% dependent on whether guard Isaiah Joe will stay in the NBA draft or return to school for his junior year.

If Joe, who averaged 16.9 points per game last year, comes back, Arkansas will not have any scholarships left to give – which would obviously complicate their interest in Weaver.

Of course, coach Eric Musselman could find a way to extend a scholarship offer to Weaver anyway and sort it out after the fact if he accepts and Joe returns to school.

Arkansas is a top-50 team that went 20-12 last year but finished just 10th in the SEC with a 7-11 record.

They have the No. 5 recruiting class in the country for the class of 2020 however, and will have six guards on the roster in 2020-2021 – and that’s not including Joe.

The six guards are junior Desi Sills, junior-transfer JD Notae, grad-transfer Jalen Tate, and freshmen Moses Moody, Khalen “KK” Robinson, and Davonte “Devo” Davis.

Obviously Tate, who came over from Northern Kentucky, won’t be in the picture by the time Weaver would be ready to step onto the court, but Davis, Robinson and Moody all figure to be big-time contributors in their sophomore campaigns.

Moody is a six-foot-five combo guard, and unless he dominates his freshman season and declares early for the NBA draft, he figures to be a starter for this team in 2021-2022, which would likely limit Weaver to a bench role.

Whether he is willing to move to an SEC program with a higher ceiling than USC, but still likely in a reserve role, remains to be seen, but coach Musselman has done a great job on the recruiting trail recently, and landing Weaver would only serve to shore up their depth in a few years.