Guests: Alyssa Orange and Bill King
Bud Light Morning Rush Podcast: 3-18-25
Arkansas is headed to Providence with Tye Richardson close behind, if he can read the map correctly. Talkin’ tournament and more!
Guests: Bruce Stanton!
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Ruscin & Zach March 17
We celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, talk about the bracket and Arkansas’ place on it. Then we hear about the Michigan baseball player that made news over the weekend.
Pig Trail Nation’s Mike Irwin on Razorbacks landing in NCAA Tournament
After spending over a month where every game was an NCAA matchup has prepared them about as well as possible.
Eastside Liquor Halftime Podcast: 3-17-25
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Mike Irwin (PigTrail Nation)
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Bud Light Morning Rush Podcast: 3-17-25
Will the luck of the Irish bless the Hogs in Providence on Thursday night? Arkansas baseball grabs another Opening Weekend Series W, and more!
Guests: Clay Henry!
Late rally lifts Hogs past Ole Miss behind Wehiwa’s pair of homers
OXFORD, Miss. — Wehiwa Aloy swatted a pair of homers, including the game-winning three-run blast with two outs in the ninth, and finished with a team-high five RBI to power No. 3 Arkansas (18-2, 2-1 SEC) to a thrilling come-from-behind 12-9 series-clinching win against No. 13 Ole Miss (15-4, 1-2 SEC) Sunday afternoon at Swayze Field in Oxford, Miss.
The Razorbacks have now won eight consecutive SEC Opening Weekend series since the start of the 2017 campaign as well as five consecutive regular-season weekend series against the Rebels, including three straight weekend series in Oxford. Arkansas also picked up its first SEC-opening series win on the road since the 2007 campaign, when head coach Dave Van Horn and the Hogs won two-of-three games against Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.
Trailing by a run and down to their last out in the top of the ninth, Charles Davalan’s RBI single tied the game at nine apiece before Aloy’s go-ahead three-run shot to right field, his second homer of the ballgame, put the Razorbacks up, 12-9. True freshman right-hander Carson Wiggins worked around a pair of two-out walks in the bottom of the ninth inning before striking out Ole Miss’ three-hole hitter Ryan Moerman to earn his first win and clinch the series.
Arkansas and Ole Miss exchanged blows all afternoon. When the Rebels jumped out to an early 4-0 advantage after tagging starter Landon Beidelschies for four runs on four hits and two walks in 2.1 innings of work, the Razorback offense responded with seven unanswered runs, highlighted by a four-run sixth inning, to open a 7-4 lead.
Aloy’s first of two homers punctuated the four-run sixth. After Davalan’s RBI groundout gave Arkansas its first lead of the day, the Razorback shortstop drilled the first pitch he saw over the wall in left center to put the Hogs up by three.
In relief of Beidelschies, veteran right-hander Will McEntire emerged from the bullpen and turned in a strong effort with 3.1 innings of one-run ball and five strikeouts to give Arkansas an opportunity to find its footing in Sunday’s slugfest.
Arkansas took an 8-5 lead into the bottom half of the seventh, but Ole Miss would not quit. The Rebels scored three runs in the frame to tie the game before taking a 9-8 lead on a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning.
With their backs against the wall in the ninth, however, the Razorbacks did not relent. Davalan and Aloy’s two-out heroics in the helped Arkansas post a four-spot in the inning and open a three-run lead for Wiggins, who struck out a career-high three over two innings of one-run ball in relief, to protect and, ultimately, secure.
Up next, Arkansas returns inside the friendly confines of Baum-Walker Stadium for a five-game week and six-game homestand. The action gets underway with a double midweek series against Oral Roberts on March 18-19.
Razorbacks get in NCAA Tournament, drawing familiar opponent
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas, seeded 10th in the West Region, will face Kansas, the region’s No. 7 seed, on Thursday, March 20, in the first round of the 2025 NCAA Championship.
The Razorbacks and Jayhawks will play in Providence, R.I., at Amica Mutual Pavilion. Tipoff time and TV information are TBA.
Arkansas earns its 37th NCAA bid and fourth in a five-year span. This is the second time in program history Arkansas has earned a No. 10 seed. Arkansas is 50-35 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, including a 19-8 record in first-round games.
This will be the 14th time Arkansas and Kansas have officially played. The Jayhawks own an 8-6 advantage in the series, which dates back to the 1946-47 season.
Arkansas has won two straight in the series with a 65-64 win in the 2005 Maui Invitational and a 72-71 victory in the 2023 NCAA Tournament second round as the Razorbacks advanced to their third-straight Sweet 16. The Jayhawks were the No. 1 seed and ranked No. 4 in the AP poll.
While this is the 14th official time the programs have met, Arkansas hosted preseason No. 1 Kansas in a charity exhibition game earlier this year (Oct. 25, 2024) in Bud Walton Arena.
The teams played four, 10-minute quarters and Arkansas won 85-69. Both teams played without two of their top players. (Arkansas was without Jonas Aidoo and Zvonimir Ivisic and Kansas was without Hunter Dickinson, Shakeel Moore and Rylan Griffen.)
With a first-round win, Arkansas would face the winner of No. 2 seed St. John’s and No. 15 seed Omaha on Saturday, March 22, in Providence.
Arkansas won 20 games in 2024-25 and faced 17 teams in this year’s NCAA field, posting an 8-11 record in those games.
Highlights for John Calipari in his 33rd year as a collegiate head coach include 32 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, six Final Four’s, 12 Elite Eight’s, 15 Sweet 16’s.
Calipari is 57-22 in the tournament, tied for the most among active coaches with Bill Self Kansas and sixth most all-time.
The Razorbacks now have 20 wins for the 30th time in Calipari’s 33 seasons. He is the only coach to win at least 38 games in a season, doing it once at Memphis and twice at Kentucky.
