Butler Basketball: Will Rotnei Clark Become the Next Jimmer Fredette at Butler?

Gordon Hayward was great.

Shelvin Mack was scintillating.

Matt Howard was marvelous.

So, who is going to be the next Bulldogs star?

It is very possible that it could be former Arkansas Razorback Rotnei Clarke. CBSSports.com reports that Clarke has decided to transfer to Butler and play his final season for Brad Stevens.

Clarke elected earlier this spring to leave Arkansas following the coaching change that removed John Pelphrey and replaced him with Mike Anderson.

Listed at 6'0", Clarke has the stature of a point guard but the skills of a shooting guard.

Clarke is one of, if not, the best perimeter shooters in the nation. In his three seasons at Arkansas, he attempted 653 shots from beyond the arc, connecting on 42 percent of his three-pointers.

In the final part of last season, Clarke elevated his already superb game even further, averaging over 20 points per game and shooting better than 50 percent from downtown.

With transferring, Clarke will have to sit out this next season. But when he steps back on the court for the 2012-13 season, could he become the next Jimmer Fredette?

From a talent standpoint, that is a possibility. Clarke has the accuracy and range of this past season's national player of the year.

What might be a challenge to this thought could be the offensive scheme of Clarke's new head coach, Brad Stevens.

Stevens' brand of basketball is a deliberate style of working the ball and the shot clock on most possessions.

Fredette flourished in a BYU offense that pushed the ball at every opportunity and looked to put the ball up as soon as a decent look came along.

There's a good chance that Clarke will see action at both backcourt positions. Even when he plays point guard, he will be just as much of a scoring threat than a playmaker.

Even still, don't bet on seeing Fredette's video game-like stats duplicated in Indy a year from now.