Cooper Bowser

And he's a very dangerous lob threat, as you just saw right there, whether it's in the pick and roll as a roll man or flatten it out on the baseline in the dunker spot.

I would say that the former is what concerns me, although I do think Cooper Bowser is a really good ball screen coverage big, and it's going to be a big part of what Arkansas needs him to do.

The latter, the dunker spot, I'm not as worried about because a lot of that is dependent on guards getting paint touches and drawing help and you being able to dump it off.

So to me, if Jordan Smith Jr., Jeremiah, Billy, Abdu, if those guys are getting beat off the bounce by Gonzaga's guards, and I think the Razorbacks have a pretty sizable advantage in the backcourt there, we've got bigger fish to fry, bigger issues at hand that we need to talk about.

So they should be adjusted to the type of length and athleticism that he brings to the position.

I wouldn't advise...

I wouldn't advise switching him on to Arkansas's guards, but I do wonder how they'll go about matching up, you know, him and Braden Huff on Mika and Cooper Bowser.

So it's, it's, it's going to be interesting.

Jordan Smith Jr., one of the best freshmen in all of college basketball.

J.J. Andrews, Abdou Toure, these guys should be able to give you some explosiveness, but What are you going to be able to get out of Cooper Bowser down low? Love Jeremiah Wilkerson coming on over while he was over at California.

He's a guy that I think is a nice mixer and shaker for this team.

Want to get your thoughts here on this Arkansas team where low post play leaving something to be desired.

I mean, these freshmen are outstanding, which you're used to with the John Calipari team.

But yes, it's the frontcourt again.

What is Cooper Bowser going to do transferring up here? Can he be a guy that...

is consistently contributing as a starting center or power forward in the SEC.

you're going to get a lot of that.

Now I played a clip yesterday of, uh, of Cal essentially saying like, Hey, we need Cooper Bowser to be an impactful piece to this team because Caleb Arrigo Arrigo isn't quite ready to be the guy right out of the gates.

Now it doesn't mean that he's not going to be in the rotation.

In fact, I guarantee you that he will.

I thought it was a neat quote.

We probably have a chance of maybe starting maybe three freshmen, probably two freshmen because Billy Richman, Jeremiah will probably start, and Cooper.

Cooper Bowser from

Furman.

And that's how he bought the team.

Cooper Bowser, new Razorback from Furman, 6'11", 230, one of the, uh, participants at Media Days.

And we heard from Cal, he said, "I must have been on crack when I made this non-con schedule."

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I'm guessing that's not what Cooper Bowser said, but here was his take on Arkansas' schedule outside the SEC.

We're excited for the challenges ahead.

I mean, we don't wanna look too far into the future, but we know we do have a lot of great non-con games.

We get to go to Arizona, we get to go to Detroit and play these storied programs.