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No. 11 Arkansas closed its non-conference schedule strong on Monday afternoon, as the Hogs beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 86-52, in Bud Walton Arena.
The Razorbacks have now beaten three straight in-state foes, and head into the Southeastern Conference season winners of six straight games.
Redshirt senior guard Destiny Slocum led the Hogs on the scoresheet, going for a game-high 18 points on a seven of 12 clip from the field. She also hit four threes in the game, which matched her season-high.
The Hogs had several big contributions off the bench once again, as redshirt sophomore forward Erynn Barnum registered her first double-double of the season, going for 13 points and 10 rebounds, while sophomore guard Marquesha Davis scored 15 points, pulled down four rebounds and dished two assists.
Turning point
The Razorbacks got off to another hot start, jumping out to a quick 24-12 lead in the first quarter.
A 17-0 run that bridged the first and second periods in the game was the difference, as the Hogs would never look back after building a 36-12 lead with 5:10 to play in the first half.
Slocum and Davis propelled the Hogs in the first half, scoring 13 points apiece in the frame. Slocum hit three of her four long balls before the intermission, while Davis hit five of her six first half shots.
Hogs highlights
• Barnum’s double-double was the second of her career. The other came last season against Tulsa (12/11/19).
• Davis registered two blocks in the game, the first multi-block game of the season for her.
• Senior forward Taylah Thomas got into double figures, going for 11 points. She also had two steals, matching her season high.
• Sophomore Avery Hughes splashed home two threes in the game, matching her career high with six points off the bench.
Next time out
Arkansas begins its conference season with a bang, as the Hogs will travel to Lexington to take on No. 13 Kentucky on New Year’s Eve.
That game is set to tip at 7:30 p.m. and can be watched on the SEC Network.
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Hogs land Texas Bowl against familiar foe while CFP gets it right
In all the whining and moaning about how the College Football Playoff shouldn’t have let this team or that one in, don’t tell Sam Pittman the Hogs don’t belong in a bowl.
“If nothing else because of our schedule we’ve earned a bowl situation,” Pittman said after the official announcement of Arkansas going to the Texas Bowl to play TCU.
And, in case you’re wondering, the College Football Playoff folks got the four best teams in the playoff. It’s not about being fair or a minimum number of games played.
The Group of 5 schools are never going to be in a playoff and, in reality, are lucky to get into a New Year’s Six bowl game. Sorry, that’s a fact of life.
Ohio State is better than Texas A&M, who was up and down like kids that discovered an escalator. Jimbo Fisher was just trying to make a case for recruits and his fans.
The committee is not supposed to look at just numbers, but put the four best teams into the playoff at the end of the year and that’s exactly what they did.
Not that it matters. It will probably be Alabama and Clemson IV (one of those two teams has played in every championship game except the first one).
As for the Razorbacks, the game may mess up some partying, kicking off at 7 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, but it is a prime time game and a lot of folks will be watching.
“There might be a lot of people where the second half might be blurry to them,” Pittman said. “It’s the last game (of the 2020 calendar year), you’ll have a large audience … it’s gonna be kinda neat.”
Arkansas played a schedule that saw nearly every opponent on a 10-game schedule ranked at some point during the season. When it was announced during the summer, athletics director Hunter Yurachek called it the most difficult schedule in the history of college football.
Combine that with a weekly schedule of holding your breath waiting on covid-19 test results, an even bigger accomplishment was getting all 10 games played.
“I’m really proud of that,” Pittman said. “The only problem was we kinda limped into the end of the year. We had a few close games we couldn’t close out that early in the year we might have, but I don’t know.”
He’s right about limping into the last part of the schedule. Between players quitting for whatever reason and injuries, this time was ragged by the LSU game.
It showed on the field.
Now it’s on to face a TCU team that is looking forward to getting in additional practices with the bowl game. Both Pittman and Horned Frogs coach Gary Patterson sounded Sunday evening like that was the main reason they wanted the game.
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