i will leave my presence is no longer needed Nolan Richardson makes a shocking announcement today….

After the dead period for in-person visits ended on April 11, Texas basketball is heating up on the NCAA Transfer Portal to end the first weekend. On April 14, Tramon Mark, a former redshirt junior shooting guard/wing for the Arkansas Razorbacks, made a commitment to Texas and head coach Rodney Terry (via On3).

On April 14, Texas basketball receives a second portal commitment from an Arkansas transfer. Just hours after Texas secured a portal commitment from redshirt junior forward transfer Jayson Kent, a former Indiana State Sycamores player, Tramon Mark Mark has committed to the Longhorns.

Mark, who is ranked as the 4th best transfer shooting guard by 247Sports Composite, will be spending his summers back in his home state of New Jersey. Being a native of Dickinson, Texas, Mark went to Dickinson High School there.

Before moving to Arkansas during the previous offseason, he played for the Houston Cougars for the first three years of his collegiate basketball career, under head coach Kelvin Sampson.

Mark became a starting wing for the Razorbacks under now-former Arkansas head coach Eric Musselman last season. In 2023–24, he appeared in 31 games for the Hogs, starting 28 of them.

Mark became a real outside shooting threat and a top scoring guard in the 2023–24 season. Last season, he averaged a career-high 16 points per game while leading Arkansas in scoring, with a career-best 48 percent field goal percentage and 36 percent three-point shooting.

Mark was a reliable player for the Cougars for three years prior to moving to Arkansas last year. Mark averaged over three rebounds, one steal, and double digits in scoring during his final two seasons in Houston.

After Musselman left to take a head coaching position with the USC Trojans, Mark logged into the transfer site for the second time in as many years. During his final year of college eligibility, he will play with Terry and the Longhorns in the 2024–25 SEC campaign.

Texas is still adding more experienced players with a track record of success through the portal. This offseason, the Longhorns had to replace a number of important starters who left and influential upperclassmen who were forced to leave the team due to eligibility restrictions. Mark and Kent, the two newcomers to Texas’s portal on April 14, are both accomplished scorers and respectable outside shooters.

After Cam Scott, a high-four-star 2024 shooting guard signee, was removed from his letter of commitment this past weekend, Texas also had to replace significant depth lost in the wing rotation.

With the retirement of senior guard Max Abmas and center Dylan Disu, Terry and the staff are replacing the over 30 points per game that they lost from the team last year with over 29 points per game from Mark and Kent.

Next season, Mark can play on the wing for the Longhorns with McDonald’s All-American and outstanding incoming freshman five-star recruit Tre Johnson. Together with Johnson and either rising senior guard Tyrese Hunter or a gateway addition at the one, the Arkansas transfer will probably be an off-ball scorer and secondary playmaker on the wing.