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Spencer picks up second Freshman of the Week honor this season
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – For the second time this season, Arkansas guard Samara Spencer earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors, the league office announced this morning.
Spencer, who has found herself in the starting lineup since she last won the honor in November, becomes the first Hog to win the award multiple times in a season since Jailyn Mason did so back in 2017.
Spencer played both of her best SEC games to date back-to-back this week, helping Arkansas pick up wins against Alabama and Mississippi State.
With the wins, Arkansas has won three of four, and is back up to .500 in league play. Against the Crimson Tide, Spencer was steady and efficient.
She dropped in 18 points in the win, hitting seven of her 13 shots, including four of her eight triples. Spencer also dished five assists in the win, just one shy of her career-best mark, and pulled down three rebounds.
Spencer, who goes 5-7, even blocked a shot in the game.
Her 18 points against the Tide lasted as a career-high for just 48 hours, as the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, product dropped in 19 more points against Mississippi State.
She was just as efficient on Sunday – Spencer hit six of her 12 shots, and a career-best five threes on eight tries. This game was tied at halftime but finished as a blowout.
That’s because Spencer caught fire in the Hogs’ 32-point third quarter, scoring 10 points, including back-to-back-to-back three’s early in the period to put some distance between Arkansas and Mississippi State.
All told, Spencer finished the week averaging 18.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game.
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Ole Miss grabs one of Razorbacks’ defensive coaches
The assistant coach carousel is twirling fast these days.
A day after Sam Pittman fired defensive line coach Jermail Ashley, there is now a report from 247Sports that Lane Kiffin has raided the Arkansas staff.
Cornerbacks coach Sam Carter, who came with Pittman before the 2020 season, leaving Fayetteville for Oxford and Ole Miss.
After allowing 259.6 passing yards per game (9th in SEC) in 2020, the Hogs allowed just 215.1 passing yards per game (5th in SEC) in 2021. Senior cornerback Montaric Brown also led the SEC with five interceptions, the most by a Razorback since 2011.
Here’s what his bio from the Hogs’ website said about Carter:
Carter joined the Hogs from Missouri where he served as a defensive quality control and analyst for Barry Odom, now the Razorbacks’ defensive coordinator.
In year one under Carter’s tutelage, Arkansas’ secondary quickly displayed its prowess as a talented ballhawking group.
The Hogs’ 13 interceptions during the season were second most in the SEC and 13th most in FBS.
The Razorback defensive backfield featured the nation’s only freshman duo to record multiple interceptions in Hudson Clark (3) and Jalen Catalon (3).
During his time at Missouri, Carter helped the Tigers’ defense rank as one of the best in the nation, particularly in the secondary, in 2019.
Missouri’s pass defense ranked sixth in the FBS and second in the Southeastern Conference allowing only 179.3 yards per game.
The Tigers were even tougher with the ball in the air, leading the nation by allowing opponents to complete just 50.3% of passes for 2,151 yards – seventh-fewest in FBS.
Mizzou had four players inside the SEC’s top 25 of passes defended, including three defensive backs in Joshuah Bledsoe, Khalil Oliver and Tyree Gillespie.
Carter was a standout, All-Big 12 safety at TCU prior to starting his coaching career.
The New Orleans native played in 49 games for the Horned Frogs from 2011-14, starting 39 including all 38 over his final three years.
As a senior, he was a semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, a Senior CLASS Award finalist and a Senior CLASS Award second-team All-American.
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