Arkansas coach John Pelphrey indicated Monday that point guard Courtney Fortson still won’t be ready to return to court when the Razorbacks play second-ranked Texas on Tuesday night.

It means the sophomore is on pace to miss his 15th straight game to start the season. And that would mean the entire nonconference season.

Pelphrey was asked if he was confident Fortson would return at all this year during today’s press conference. His answer didn’t sound, well, very confident.

“I don’t know how to answer that,” Pelphrey said. “I would say he has an opportunity to be back. I think we all would like for him to get back. Probably a little surprised that we’re here so I can’t really say anything with 100 percent confidence. I wished I could. But that probably wouldn’t be a very intelligent thing to say that I’m confident one way or the other. I know that we’ve worked very hard and diligent to try to mentor and lead and put these guys in a situation where they’ve got a chance to be successful. I’m 100 percent confident in that. We’ll see. We’ll have to wait and see.”

Pelphrey said the ball is squarely in Fortson’s court at this point, but the point guard continues to practice with the team.