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Razorback suffer bad loss despite Makayla Daniels’ big night
NASHVILLE — Arkansas (18-8, 5-6 SEC) ran into trouble at Vanderbilt (11-14, 2-9 SEC), falling to the Commodores 78-70 on Thursday night.
In a game where Vanderbilt led for nearly 37 minutes, Arkansas took the lead briefly in the third quarter, but could not close in on the Commodores. Makayla Daniels led the Razorbacks with a season-high 31 points.
Vanderbilt won the tip, but the Razorbacks held the Commodores to a shot clock violation on their first possession and Erynn Barnum responded on the other end with a third-chance layup.
The Commodores made two triples, but Makayla Daniels banked in 3-pointer and made two free throws to help Arkansas go back up briefly until Vanderbilt cruised on a 7-0 run. Daniels broke the Razorbacks’ scoring drought with a layup, but Vanderbilt kept on firing away on offense and led 15-9 with 4:41 left in the first quarter.
Arkansas was held from the field for the remaining 5:32 of the quarter but made four of eight free throws during that stretch. The Commodores were held scoreless for the last 4:06 of the frame, making it an 18-13 game in favor of Vanderbilt.
Arkansas opened the quarter with two layups to start a 4-0 run, and after Vanderbilt’s ninth foul of the game, the Commodores burned an early timeout with 8:36 left in the frame. Vanderbilt then made back-to-back 3-pointers to go up by seven, but Chrissy Carr answered with a 3-pointer of her own.
The Commodores went back up by seven, but Daniels logged a 3-pointer, and the Razorbacks trailed 28-24 with four minutes and some change left in the first half. Off a steal, Daniels went to the basket for a layup, but Vanderbilt answered with a 3-pointer off a second chance opportunity.
The Razorbacks then got Barnum going with two straight layups in the paint, as Arkansas trailed 33-30 with 1:47 remaining in the half. Vanderbilt closed the quarter on a 4-2 run, as Arkansas was down 37-32 at the half.
The Razorbacks came up empty on their first two possessions of the second half, committing back-to-back turnovers. Carr got Arkansas its first basket of the quarter with a second-chance layup.
Whenever Arkansas was starting to find a groove offensively, Vanderbilt would answer, and after a Daniels 3-pointer to cut the lead to three, the Commodores went back up by five with a layup.
Carr delivered a triple and after a Daniels 3-pointer, Arkansas took its first lead since the early part of the game., 47-46, with less than four minutes in the quarter. Vanderbilt got fouled on their next basket and converted the 3-point play to retake the lead, 49-47 with three minutes left in the frame.
The Commodores ended the quarter on an 8-2 run and the Razorbacks trailed 55-49 heading into the final quarter.
Barnum helped the Razorbacks get their first points of the quarter from the free throw line after two minutes ticked off the clock in the quarter.
With Arkansas unable to make magic happen from the field, the Razorbacks trailed 59-51 with 6:11 left in the game. Carr dug Arkansas out of that drought with a 3-pointer, but the Razorbacks still fell behind, 61-54 with 5:25 left. Vanderbilt scored out of Arkansas’ timeout, but Daniels answered with a 3-point play.
The Commodores tallied a 3-point play of their own, but Daniels logged another and-1, as the Razorbacks were down 66-62 with 3:55 remaining. Arkansas forced two Vanderbilt turnovers, which set up for a Barnum second-chance layup to cut the Vanderbilt lead to two.
Vanderbilt scored a jumper on their next possession, as Arkansas trailed 68-64 with 1:52 remaining in the game. The Commodores scored another basket with under a minute remaining, as Arkansas was down 70-66 with 38.9 seconds left.Vanderbilt made their free throws down the stretch to win the game 78-70.
Hogs Highlights
• Daniels scored a season-high 31 points off 11-of-23 shooting and four 3-pointers. The game marked her third 30-point game of her career, while also surpassing Amber Ramirez, India Lewis and Malica Monk on the all-time scoring list to climb up to No. 17 (1,328). She also added three boards and three steals
• Carr came up with big baskets and finished the night with 18 points, three triples, five rebounds and a steal
• Barnum still found a way to reach double digits, ending the night with 12 points and seven rebounds
• Emrie Ellis played 14 minutes, pulling down a season-high five rebounds
• Rylee Langerman came up with hustle plays, as always and finished with four rebounds
Next Game
The Razorbacks will host Missouri on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. for Arkansas’ second game against the Tigers this season.
The game will serve as the team’s Pink Out Game and will be broadcast on SEC Network+.
Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story.
Texas, Oklahoma coming early shouldn’t be surprising
The news came at the same time Disney, the parent company of the SEC’s television partner ESPN, announced they were laying off 7,000 people and that certainly was going to include some more folks at the biggest brand in sports broadcasting.
It may be a good bet the Sooners and Longhorns agreed to this after something got knocked off that $100 million penalty to leave before 2025 as was previously announced.
Statement from @SEC Commissioner @GregSankey on Oklahoma and Texas membership transition: pic.twitter.com/qZZI6YaRJp
— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) February 10, 2023
That early date never sounded right from a logic standpoint. Especially after the Big 12 added four teams and added them to the 2023 football schedule … and OU and Texas didn’t even get a vote.
At that point it was clear everybody was done with each other. Kinda like agreeing to a divorce, then deciding to put up with each other for three full years.
You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that isn’t going to work. In the world of sports, contracts are merely the starting point for negotiations to break the things anyway.
Big 12 Announces Agreement for Withdrawal of Oklahoma and Texas
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— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) February 10, 2023
No final details were announced by the Big 12 in their announcement and the most interesting details in the press release were nearly at the bottom:
“The terms reached today are the byproduct of the Conference members working toward a resolution that provides stability for all involved. Details will continue to be finalized among all parties.”
For the Hogs and their fans, now they have a border rival that everybody will be on board hating.
For several years, the UA has tried to convince us there’s a rivalry with Missouri, but nobody in the state has been buying into that.
Since joining the SEC in 1992, the Hogs have had a couple of years being rivals with the same team, but nobody really likes Alabama or LSU but it’s nothing like Texas.
Now the bet is Oklahoma is going to come close that pretty soon. There literally are places across Arkansas where Hog fans and Sooner fans live next door to each other and a lot of that is up in the northwest part of the state.
The UA campus sits just over 25 miles from the Oklahoma state line. Fort Smith is on the border and it doesn’t even take long from Texarkana to find yourself straddling Oklahoma and Texas.
Let the hype begin because after this year there will be a whole new way to look at the SEC.
And Hogs athletics director Hunter Yurachek has an entirely new problem that he’s probably already been exploring trying to juggle all the new schedules.
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Wiggins to miss entire season; facing Tommy John surgery
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas junior pitcher Jaxon Wiggins will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the 2023 season.
Wiggins underwent an MRI on Wednesday, Feb. 8, where it was determined that he suffered a tear of his ulnar collateral ligament (UCL). His surgery will be performed by Dr. Keith Meister, the head team physician for the Texas Rangers.
A specific date for surgery has not been established at this time.
“We feel bad for Jaxon,” Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said in a release. “He worked incredibly hard over the offseason and was prepared to lead our rotation. While we are certainly disappointed that he won’t be able to see the results of his hard work on the mound this season, our priority is his health and recovery.”
Wiggins was a crucial part of an Arkansas pitching staff that set a new school record with 674 strikeouts in 2022. The right-hander made 17 appearances, including 15 starts, on the mound last season as a sophomore, posting a 6-3 record with a 6.55 ERA and 82 strikeouts over 66.0 innings.
The Roland, Okla., native logged three quality starts, including six scoreless innings with four strikeouts in a start against SEC East foe Kentucky on March 20.
Wiggins racked up multiple strikeouts in 16 of his 17 outings on the year, highlighted by a career-high nine punchouts in a start against SEC West rival LSU on April 16.
For his career, Wiggins is 9-4 with a 6.17 ERA, 110 strikeouts and four saves in 89.0 innings over 34 appearances (19 starts) as a Razorback.
He is ranked No. 41 in D1Baseball’s 2023 MLB Draft College Top 100, No. 55 in MLB Pipeline’s 2023 MLB Draft Top 100 and listed as the No. 61 overall prospect in Baseball America’s 2023 draft rankings.
Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story.
