Razorback freshman forward Ibrahim Ali has entered the transfer portal.

Ali, also known as 'Ibby', sat out last season and redshirted, but at 6-foot-10 and 244 pounds there was hope he could help Arkansas down low in the 2019-20 season with more development under newly hired head coach Eric Musselman. Ali lived in Maumelle (Ark.) and was a late scholarship addition to the Class of 2018. Before that as a senior for Maumelle in 2016-17, he averaged 4.0 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game.

He was always viewed as a developmental player, originally from Lagos, Nigeria and is the second player to transfer from Arkansas since former head coach Mike Anderson was fired. He is the first transfer since Musselman was hired, however. Soon after Anderson was fired, freshman guard Keyshawn Embery-Simpson left the team and later announced Tulsa as his transfer destination. During the season, freshman guard Jordan Phillips left the team.

The Hogs are left with four other freshmen in the Class of 2018 who will be sophomores in 2019-20, including guard Isaiah Joe, guard Desi Sills, forward Reggie Chaney and forward Ethan Henderson. In terms of freshman in the Class of 2019, Little Rock Christian Academy 3-star point guard Justice Hill remains the only commit.

As a prospect, Ali didn't receive a rating from 247Sports.com based his on lack of a complete body of work in high school. In addition to Arkansas, other programs were willing to take a chance on him and extended offers, including Georgetown, Baylor, Nebraska, IUPUI, Tulane, Utah, Wake Forest, Eastern Michigan, Illinois-Chicago and Utah. Syracuse, a perennial power in college basketball under head coach Jim Boeheim, was interested in Ali's size but never offered him a scholarship.

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In the 2018-19 season under Anderson, the Razorbacks went 18-16 and were invited to play in the National Invitational Tournament after an early exit from the SEC Tournament. Their season came to an end when they lost to Indiana in Bloomington (Ind.) in the second round of the NIT on March 23. The tallest player on Arkansas last season was sophomore Daniel Gafford, 6-11, 233. He led the Razorbacks in scoring with 16.9 points per game last season on 66 percent shooting. He also led the team in rebounds (8.7) and blocks (2.0) per game during his 2018-19 campaign. Gafford signed with an agent prior to the NIT and will forgo the final two remaining seasons of his eligibility at Arkansas. Ali was the tallest remaining player on the team after the departure of Gafford.

In his four years with Nevada, Musselman and the Wolfpack went 24-14, 28-7, 29-8 and 29-5 this past season. They finished in the AP Top 25 (ranking as high as 20th) in 2017-18 and went to the Sweet 16. His last two seasons marked two of three seasons in the school’s history that they won a school record 29 games. Last season, Musselman led the Wolf Pack to a record of 29-5 and an NCAA Tournament appearance. The first transfer that he landed while at Arkansas was UNC-Wilmington grad transfer forward Jeantal Cylla, 6-7, 215. He announced he would be transferring to Arkansas in April.