FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas freshman Davonte “Devo” Davis was committed to Oklahoma State for a time before flipping to the Razorbacks.
Earlier in the season, he was asked about drawing the Cowboys in the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
“As soon as I saw that on Twitter, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is going to be a fun game,’ ” Davis said. “Of course, I was committed there, but now I’m here. I’m ready to compete.”
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Arkansas Coach Eric Musselman was at Nevada when Davis committed to the Cowboys, but he got on the phone to start recruiting the speedy 6-3 guard when Davis reopened his recruiting.
“I think that — at least from my initial conversations with Devo — it seemed like he was really excited to become a Razorback player and that it was really important to him,” Musselman said. “When I went and saw him and … I didn’t offer him a scholarship until I did it face to face.
“The excitement in his family, there were people that teared up and I could tell how powerful it was. It was an eye-opening experience for me to offer a scholarship to an in-state player and see family members actually come to tears. It was really powerful for me to see, for sure.”
Cowboys Coach Mike Boynton said he has no hard feelings about Davis, who is from Jacksonville, de-committing from Oklahoma State and signing with Arkansas.
“I love Devo Davis,” Boynton said. “He’s truly one of the kids that I enjoyed recruiting the most, because he’s such a humble kid. I don’t know if Devo thought he was as good as I thought he was, to be perfectly honest.
“I’m happy if he’s happy at the end of the day. We’re not going to get every recruit, and we’re going to lose some more. But he looks like he’s having success over there.
“I don’t feel like anything wrong went down. He just made a decision, and I wish him the best.”