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Arkansas hoping Lawson reignites Memphis pipeline

FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas basketball program should learn later this week if it is getting back into the Bluff City basketball business.

Memphis Wooddale senior guard Johnathan Lawson (6-7, 170 pounds), a top 50 player nationally, according to ESPN, is slated to announce his college decision between Arkansas, Memphis, Vanderbilt, Oregon, Alabama, and Iowa State on Wednesday.

“That’s still the plan, to do it on the seventh,” said Keelon Lawson, Jonathan’s father and high school coach whose birthday is Wednesday. “Johnathan has a lot of great options. They are all great schools.”

Lawson averaged 26.1 points, 12.