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Notae paces White to comeback win over Red at Barnhill Arena
The Red team jumped out to a 13-0 lead to start the annual Red-White Game, played before a full Barnhill Arena crowd Sunday afternoon but a game-game 22 points from JD Notae brought the White back.
The White team won the second, third and fourth quarters for a 74-63 victory.
The game featured four, eight-minute quarters and some pre-game entertainment from the Razorbacks with Trey Wade winning the talent contest.
Notae, the 2021 SEC Sixth Man of the Year, also produced game highs in assists (6) and steals (4). Jaxson Robinson and Chris Lykes added 14 points each for the White, while Jaylin Williams, who only played six minutes in the second half, scored 12 points.
Stanley Umude led the Red team with 16 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. He added four assists as well. Davonte Davis also scored 16 points for the Red while Connor Vanover and Au’DIese Toney contributed 10 points each.
1st QUARTER
• Davis scored the first points of the game as his Red squad raced out to a 13-0 lead.
• Williams broke the scoring drought for White as part of an 11-3 run to make the score 16-11 and force a Red timeout.
• Red led 21-13 at the end of the first quarter thanks to seven points from Davis. Williams led all scorers in the quarter with eight, including a pair of triples.
2nd QUARTER
• The White out-scored the Red 19-10 in the second quarter to lead by one, 32-31, at the break.
• The White was led by Robinson, who made 2-of-4 from 2-point range.
• Late in the second quarter, Cade Arbogast made a 3-pointer and Notae had a fastbreak layup to cut the deficit to one, 31-30.
• Kamani Johnson later had a putback dunk for the White team’s first lead, 32-31 with 35 seconds left, which proved to be the halftime score.
3rd QUARTER
• The White made 8 of its last 9 field goals of the quarter to take a 54-47 lead. Overall, the White shot 64.3 percent from the field.
• The White made six straight during the run.
• Notae led the White with seven points in the quarter.
4th QUARTER
• Down seven to start the final quarter, Vanover started the fourth quarter with a dunk to get the Red to within five.
• Later, Davis got a steal and an old-fashion 3-point play on a fastbreak to trim the Red deficit to three (59-56).
• The White answered 15-2 run to push the lead to 16 (74-58) with 59 seconds left, putting the game out of reach.
• Notae and Lykes each scored five points during the decisive 15-2 run. Notae finished the quarter with eight points and Lykes seven.
Up next, Arkansas will host East Central University in the first of two exhibition games on Oct. 24 (Sunday). Tip off is set for 3 pm in Bud Walton Arena.
Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story.
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There never was much question about Arkansas’ starting lineup on either side of the ball.
We found out Saturday afternoon there were legitimate questions, though, about the guys behind them.
The defense that made big-time plays against Texas and Texas A&M hasn’t been able to stop anybody the last three weeks.
“We’re not making them now,” Sam Pittman said after a 38-23 loss on homecoming to Auburn. “Sometimes we are, but most of the time we’re not.”
As the Hogs are dealing with a lot of injuries right now that didn’t improve with the news that safety Jalen Catalon will miss the rest of the year after shoulder surgery Monday.
“We’ve got a beat up team, to be honest with you,” Pittman said. “Our team is beat up and this bye week can’t get here fast enough. We’ve got a physically beat up team.”
What he’s saying without saying it is the guys starting are out there first for a reason. They are better than the guys standing on the sidelines watching.
“They’re trying,” Pittman said.
Bear Bryant had the best story about that years ago. When he was at Kentucky he got flustered with some player he called Johnny, turned to the sidelines and told a backup to go in the game.
“Can you block that guy?” Bryant recalled asking the lad.
“Coach, I’ll try my best,” the player said.
“Get back on the bench, Johnny’s already trying his best,” Bryant said.
Pittman has referred to the depth chart and backups several times this season, always saying something about being first on the depth chart for a reason.
The main thing is having everybody ready to go against Mississippi State on Nov. 6. They have Arkansas-Pine Bluff in Little Rock this week, which should be a win. No slight intended, but the Hogs’ third team is better than anybody the Golden Lions will put on the field.
Against Georgia a couple of weeks and then Saturday the Hogs aren’t winning anything on the lines of scrimmage.
“If you didn’t think we physically just got whipped today, we did,” Pittman said. “On both sides of the ball.
“That doesn’t mean if they’re better than you that you can’t counter that with blitzes and some things of that nature and with play action and all that kind of stuff, but that’s what we tried and they were better than we were today.”
Now they have to pick up the pieces on defense without Catalon, who was one of the leaders on the defense. The Hogs knew all week he wasn’t going to play, but Pittman wasn’t telling anybody. Exactly why that was kept secret is a mystery.
“He had a little bit of a tear front and back that a lot of kids play with throughout the year,” Pittman said. “Then he broke his hand. You kind of have two injuries.
“Mentally, you could see his wasn’t playing his type of ball, tackling like he had earlier in the year and this, that and the other. I think it’s time for him to get that shoulder fixed.”
Now they’ve got to get the defense fixed, but the offense needs a little work, too.
There are problems there, too.
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Catalon out for season and Hogs’ defense may be going with him
Most Arkansas fans were expecting a win against Auburn on Saturday.
And I use the word “most” because there will be some so-called experts that come out of the woodwork this week proclaiming they knew what was going to happen.
It’s doubtful many saw a 38-23 loss to the Tigers.
Especially when they couldn’t contain Auburn quarterback Box Nix, who came up with a career day against the Razorbacks, hitting 21-of-26 passes for 292 yards and two touchdowns.
The Hogs’ defense never got a handle on him all day. He ran for first downs and a game-clinching 23-yarder in the fourth quarter.
We didn’t find out until the game was over safety Jalen Catalon was going to miss the rest of the season after having shoulder surgery Monday.
“Catalon is going to have his shoulder worked on Monday,” Pittman said. “He had a little bit of a tear front and back that a lot of kids play with throughout the year. Then he broke his hand.
“Mentally, you could see he wasn’t playing his type of ball, tackling like he had earlier in the year and this, that and the other.”
Nothing was slowing down Nix on Saturday.
Nix, who was replaced by a transfer in September, was 21-of-26 for 292 yards and two touchdowns as a receiver corps that couldn’t catch a cold previously didn’t drop many.
The Hogs were going to make Nix beat them, but they weren’t going to let him scramble. The wild antics he’s shown at times making big plays didn’t happen.
He didn’t have to.
The Hogs’ defense was torched by Ole Miss last week after we heard for a week they were working to fix a defense that suddenly fell apart after a 4-0 start to the season.
Now they are going to have to pick up the pieces without Catalon, one of the biggest leaders in the defense, certainly in the secondary.
“I think it’s time for him to get that shoulder fixed,” Pittman said after the game. “It was a decision that he came and talked to me and that’s what we came up with. I think it’s best for Cat that he gets fixed, and that’s what he is going to do on Monday.”
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