This article originally appeared on December 29, 2013 on The Arkansas Traveler website, uatrav.com.
Freshman forward Bobby Portis is the 13th McDonald’s All-American
to play at Arkansas and through 12 games, he is living up to the hype.
Portis is in the Razorbacks’ top three in scoring (12.3),
rebounding (5.9), blocks (1.0) and free throw percentage (75.6). He is also the
only player on the team that has started all 12 games this season.
Before he got to Arkansas, Portis had a standout career at Little
Rock Hall High. With the Warriors, he was a four-time state champion and the
Gatorade Arkansas Boys Basketball Player of the Year as a senior.
On top of the prestigious McDonald’s All-American game, Portis
also played in the Nike Hoops Summit and Jordan Brand Classic.
All four major recruiting services, 247sports.com, ESPN.com,
Rivals.com and Scout.com, rated him as a five-star recruit.
Portis’ arrival at Arkansas could not have come at a better time.
The tallest player on the team last year was 6-foot-10-inch Hunter Mickelson,
but he transferred at the end of the season.
Without Portis and fellow freshman Moses Kingsley, who are both
6-feet-10-inches, the biggest players on the team would be 6-foot-7-inch Coty
Clarke and 6-foot-8-inch Jacorey Williams.
This is the 16th of a series of short articles about the Arkansas basketball team. Each
day leading up to SEC play, I will post an entry about something basketball
related that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. Here are links to the
previous entries, as well as the dates for the next five…
Q – Dec. 30
R – Dec. 31
S – Jan. 1
T – Jan. 2
U – Jan. 3
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