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10 Northwest Arkansas Basketball Sunday, November 3, 2019 "When Coach Williams got here he was telling me what was wrong with my shot," Harris said. "I was leaning back when I was shooting, which was a really big problem. "When I jump now, I go straight up, not back. It helps me a lot because of the arch I put on the ball now." Cylla, a graduate transfer, averaged 13.7 points and 4.6 rebounds last season at North Carolina-Wilmington and hit 33 of 116 3-pointers (31.1%). He started against UALR and had 13 points and six rebounds. "The thing with Jeantal is he does a lot of little things pretty good," Mussel- man said. "He can make an open shot, he can handle the ball a little bit, he can pass the ball. He's a good rebounder. He's a guy that fills the stat sheet up in a va- riety of ways." Adrio Bailey, a 6-6 senior and the only Arkansas player who has been on the roster for four years, had 8 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists against UALR. A key for Bailey, who averaged 5.6 points and 3.0 rebounds last season, is not tak- ing ill-advised jump shots. Arkansas' best big man figures to be 6-8 sophomore Reggie Chaney, who last season averaged 5.4 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots playing primarily off the bench. "Reggie is strong; he's physical, and he's got good quickness for his position," Musselman said. "Obviously, his natural position is at the four. We'd like him to continue to develop some three-man skills. But he's going to play a lot of five for us just based on how our roster is." Ethan Henderson, a 6-8 sophomore who played just 51 minutes in 12 games last season while averaging 0.9 points and 1.0 rebound, is the Razorbacks' tall- est eligible scholarship player along with Chaney. Henderson showed potential in the Razorbacks' 84-72 NIT victory at Providence last season when he had six points and five rebounds in 18 minutes. Musselman added 7-3 Connor Va- nover — a Little Rock native who as a freshman at California last season av- eraged 7.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.3 blocked shots in 17.5 minutes per game — as a transfer, but Arkansas has been waiting to find out if he'll be eligible to play this season. Arkansas has applied for a waiver to the NCAA on Vanover's behalf because his decision to transfer back home is to be closer to his ailing grandmother. A mitigating factor is that his coach at Cal- ifornia, Wyking Jones, was fired. If the NCAA denies the waiver, Va- nover will have to redshirt this season, then will have three seasons of eligibility remaining. "Certainly we'd be ecstatic if he could play this year," Musselman said. "But if it's a year from now, that's great, too, where we can work with him from a player development standpoint." Two other transfers — 6-9 forward Abayomi Iyioa from Stetson and 6-2 guard JD Notae from Jacksonville (Fla.) — must redshirt this season, then will be juniors eligibility-wise for the 2020- 21 season. Musselman utilized transfers heavily at Nevada — notably twins Caleb and Cody Martin and Jordan Caroline — in leading the Wolf Pack to a 110-34 record in four seasons, including NCAA Tour- nament appearances the previous three seasons with a Sweet 16 trip in 2018. Musselman said how many transfers he adds annually at Arkansas might fluctuate based on need, but he plans to make it a part of his recruiting. "I think it's just a change in college basketball that's involving," he said. "I think from an experience standpoint it's good. But it's got to be the right fit" Musselman didn't want to be specific about when Arkansas — picked to finish 11th in the SEC in a preseason poll — might be able to get back to a Sweet 16 for the first time since 1996. "As far as putting a timetable on this thing, I don't want to do that, because these guys want to win right now," he said. "So for me to sit here and say, 'Year two, year three …' You know what? We want to be the best possible team we can be this year." Small ball v Continued from Page 9 NWA Democrat-Gazette File Photo/J.T. WAMPLER Arkansas' Reggie Chaney goes up for a shot against the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Oct. 20 at Bud Walton Arena in Fay- etteville. Arkansas Razorbacks 2019-20 schedule Date Opponent Time Nov. 5 .............................................. Rice ............................................7 p.m. Nov. 12 ...................................... North Texas ......................................7 p.m. Nov. 16 ....................................... Montana@ .......................................4 p.m. Nov. 19 ..................................Texas Southern@ ..................................7 p.m. Nov. 22 ................................... South Dakota@ ...................................8 p.m. Nov. 25 ................................... at Georgia Tech ...................................6 p.m. Nov. 30 ...............................Northern Kentucky@ ...............................4 p.m. Dec. 3 ........................................ Austin Peay ......................................7 p.m. Dec. 7 .................................at Western Kentucky ......................... 6:30 p.m. Dec. 14 ............................................Tulsa .................................... 12:30 p.m. Dec. 21 ...................................... Valparaiso#.......................................7 p.m. Dec. 29 ........................................at Indiana ........................................... TBD Jan. 4 ........................................Texas A&M* ......................................6 p.m. Jan. 8 ........................................... at LSU* .........................................8 p.m. Jan. 11 ......................................at Ole Miss* ......................................5 p.m. Jan. 15 .......................................Vanderbilt* ................................. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 ....................................... Kentucky* .......................................3 p.m. Jan. 22 ...............................at Mississippi State* ...............................6 p.m. Jan. 25 ........................................... TCU$ ...........................................3 p.m. Jan. 29 ...................................South Carolina* ............................. 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1 ........................................at Alabama* ......................................5 p.m. Feb. 4 ...........................................Auburn* .........................................6 p.m. Feb. 8 ....................................... At Missouri*................................. 2:30p.m. Feb. 11 .................................... at Tennessee* ....................................6 p.m. Feb. 15 .................................Mississippi State* .................................. Noon Feb. 18 ....................................... at Florida* .......................................6 p.m. Feb. 22 ........................................Missouri* ......................................... Noon Feb. 26 ...................................... Tennessee* ................................ 7:30 p.m. Feb. 29 .......................................at Georgia* .......................................5 p.m. March 4 .......................................... LSU* ...........................................6 p.m. March 7 .................................. at Texas A&M*.............................. 3:30 p.m. March 11 ............................... SEC Tournament @ — Collegiate Hoops Roadshow # — At North Little Rock * — SEC game NWA Democrat-Gazette File Photo/J.T. WAMPLER Arkansas' Jimmy Whitt Jr. looks for room to get around the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Jaizec Lottie on Oct. 20 at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville.