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5-star Smith signs with Arkansas

( David Beach )

Arkansas basketball commit Nick Smith watches the Razorbacks' Red-White game on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021, during the first half of play at Barnhill Arena, Fayetteville.

FAYETTEVILLE — North Little Rock star Nick Smith Jr. took his signing ceremony to the Arkansas fans on Saturday night.

Smith (6-5, 185 pounds), ESPN’s sixth-best player nationally in the 2022 class, signed his national letter of intent to play at Arkansas in front of a packed house at JJ’s Grill on Dickson St. in Fayetteville.

Part of the nation’s third-best recruiting class overall, according to ESPN, Smith did so at halftime of the Arkansas-LSU football game.