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Listen to the Hogs-Ole Miss live here on ESPN Arkansas radio
• Who: Arkansas Razorbacks (12-4, 4-4 SEC) vs. Ole Miss Rebels (8-6, 3-4 SEC)
• What: In its ninth SEC game of the season, Arkansas is playing at home for just the fourth time.
• When: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m.
• Where: Fayetteville, Nolan Richardson Court at Bud Walton Arena
How (to follow):
• TV: SEC Network (Dave Neal and Jon Sunvold) CLICK HERE
• ONLINE: HitThatLine.com LISTEN HERE
• Radio: ESPN Arkansas 95.3 in the River Valley, 96.3 in Hot Springs and 104.3 in Harrison-Mountain Home (Chuck Barrett and Matt Zimmerman)
Arkansas returns to Bud Walton Arena for just the fourth time since Dec. 22 to host Ole Miss on Wednesday.
The game starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be televised on SEC Network.
Pregame coverage begins at 7 p.m. and you LISTEN HERE or on the radio at ESPN Arkansas 95.3 in the River Valley, 96.3 in Hot Springs and 104.3 in Harrison-Mountain Home.
Chuck Barrett and Matt Zimmerman will have all the coverage.
• This week is Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers Week to raise money and awareness in the fight against cancer. Razorback head coach Eric Musselman, who serves on the Coaches vs. Cancer Council, will be wearing a special pair of shoes for the game. To help donate to the cause, purchase an Arkansas-themed Suits and Sneakers t-shirt by visiting Suits and Sneakers website.
• This will be the 83rd meeting between Arkansas and Ole Miss. The Rebels are Arkansas’ second-most common opponent among the SEC teams, trailing only Texas A&M (the Hogs’ most common opponent all-time). Arkansas leads the all-time series, 49-33 including wins in eight of the last 11.
• Arkansas leads 16-11 in games played in Fayetteville and the series is tied 27-27 since the Razorbacks joined the SEC.
Moses Moody is proving to be one of the top players in the SEC and one of the top freshmen in the nation:
• He is 1 of 3 NCAA freshmen averaging over 17 points per game this season.
• He is 1 of 6 NCAA freshmen are averaging over 15.0 points and 5.0 rebounds per game this season.
• He is 1 of 3 players in the SEC to average at least 15.0 points and 5.0 rebounds
• He is the only player in the SEC to rank among the league’s top 15 in the following four categories: scoring (7th), field goal percentage (10th), free throw percentage (4th) and rebounds (15th).
• He is the only player in the SEC shooting at least 40% from the field, 80% from the free throw line and 36% from 3-point range.
• Ole Miss is one of the nation’s top defensive teams, allowing just 46 and 50 points in its last two games. The Rebels rank 17th in the NCAA in scoring defense and 19th in turnovers forced. Davontae Shuler leads the team in scoring (14.9 ppg), and assists (4.1 avg.) while ranking second in the SEC in both steals and assist-to-turnover ratio.
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Razorback fans will be fascinated with Texas game, but shouldn’t be
Arkansas fans today are going to be far more obsessed with a non-conference game on Sept. 11 than the important games against SEC teams.
The Razorbacks have been far more intrigued in re-kindling their hatred of the Longhorns than anything else.
It’s almost like you wonder if during the 2-10 years if Chad Morris would still be the coach if one of those wins had been against Texas.
Yes, it’s like that.
Texas is, well, Texas. I grew up in Arkansas, attending games and all the hoopla. Over half of my adult life was spent in Texas and I learned that a huge percentage of people moved there from Arkansas and most Longhorn fans consider the Hogs just another game on the schedule … when they do meet.
They are more concerned with Oklahoma and Texas A&M than the Hogs. They haven’t played the Aggies since 2011 but there is still real dislike at both places for each other.
Yet Arkansas fans are going to be more obsessed with the Texas game Sept. 11 than any other game on the schedule.
And the schedule, released Wednesday by the SEC office, has more important issues that should be the focus ahead of the Longhorns.
Mainly the back-to-back road games in October and November, particularly the possbility of playing LSU and Alabama two straight weeks just before ending the season.
The Hogs have an unbalanced schedule (seven games in the state), but it’s way too early to start making predictions. There are too many wildcards hanging out there, including the covid situation that may or may not be calmed down by September.
Hogs athletics director Hunter Yurachek said last week he expects to have a complete schedule with no attendance restrictions.
This is the year Arkansas is scheduled to host Missouri in the out-dated War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.
Fans are used to playing the Tigers on the day after Thanksgiving and that may happen again this year, but that’s always announced sometime later, depending on television’s desires.
Schedule notes
• Arkansas will start the season with former Southwest Conference members Rice and the Longhorns.
• For the second year in a row, the Hogs will have to play Georgia, but this time it will be on the road.
• If there are two key stretches it is a pair of back-to-back road games. In October, the Hogs go to Georgia, then Ole Miss the next week. That’s not as bad as the middle of November when they go to LSU and Alabama.
• The schedule will not have the degree of difficulty as 2020’s schedule but at least half of the opponents will be ranked in the Top 25 and, of course, the Crimson Tide in the next-to-last game of the year.
Here is the schedule:
• Sept. 4 … Rice
• Sept. 11 … Texas
• Sept. 18 … Georgia Southern
• Sept. 25 … Texas A&M (Arlington)
• Oct. 2 … @ Georgia
• Oct. 9 … @ Ole Miss
• Oct. 16 … Auburn
• Oct. 23 … Arkansas-Pine Bluff
• Nov. 6 … Mississippi State
• Nov. 13 … @ LSU
• Nov. 20 … @ Alabama
• Nov. 27 … Missouri (Little Rock)
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