Boogie Fland Withdraws from 2025 NBA Draft, Enters CBB Transfer Portal from Arkansas

Former Arkansas guard Boogie Fland has reportedly withdrawn his name from consideration at the 2025 NBA draft, as his agent told ESPN’s Jonathan Givony.

He entered the transfer portal following his freshman season with the Razorbacks and is currently the fifth-best player remaining in the portal (No. 8 overall), per 247Sports.

Fland, 18, averaged 13.5 points, 5.1 assists and 1.5 steals in his lone season at Arkansas, shooting just 37.9 percent from the field and 34 percent from three. He helped lead the Razorbacks to a 22-14 record and a berth in the Sweet 16, where they fell short against Texas Tech in overtime.

He struggled in the tournament, averaging just four points per game in a role off the bench after returning from a long layoff due to a hand injury suffered in mid-January. His tourney struggles likely came from being rusty after being sidelined for two months, as he was fantastic in the first half of the season for Arkansas.

In April, head coach John Calipari wished Fland well at his next destination, noting that he believed Fland was a first-round talent:

But it’s fairly clear, based on Fland’s withdrawal from the draft, that NBA scouts potentially didn’t see him as a first-round talent, at least this year. B/R’s Jonathan Wasserman projected Fland to be a second-round pick in his latest mock draft, tabbing the Toronto Raptors to select him at No. 39.

He wrote that Fland “wasn’t convincing enough this year to sell teams on a starting NBA point guard. The size and athleticism questions popped up too much whenever he was driving or trying to finish. But his ball-handling and shiftiness for creation and playmaking, and his reliable shotmaking, do paint him as an attractive scoring/playmaking spark for NBA teams to think of for instant offense off the bench.”

Perhaps they’ll do so next year. For now, Fland is staying in college and likely will secure an NIL deal more valuable than what he would have made in the NBA next season.