John Calipari didn’t talk Saturday night like a coach who had just survived a scare. He talked like a coach who learned something about his team. On a freezing night in Fayetteville, with snow and sleet swirling around Bud Walton Arena, Arkansas found itself in an uncomfortable spot.
Neither the upper or lower bowls will be far from full as the Razorbacks are looking to stay in the race for a regular season SEC title and second straight conference home victory.
No. 20 Arkansas enters the defense of its unbeaten home record Saturday with a simple directive from coach John Calipari. "Everybody says you guys play really well and then you get arrogant," Calipari said he told the Razorbacks after their 93-68 home victory over No.
Arkansas Razorbacks freshman point guard Darius Acuff probably hasn't experienced this type of hard coaching in his entire a career. Growing up in Detroit, he's likely been the best player on the court across every level in which he's ever participated.
In a moment of irony, the one thing that caught fire across social media following the Hogs' 93-68 blowout win over No. 15 Vanderbilt that sent the Commodores reeling with a third straight loss was a video of Arkansas coach John Calipari complaining about the effort of one of his players.
The Arkansas Razorbacks didn’t make this complicated, dramatic or particularly suspenseful Wednesday night. They just played basketball, shared the ball and turned Vanderbilt’s visit into a long, uncomfortable SEC lesson.
The No. 15 Vanderbilt Commodores are floundering. After starting the season with 16 consecutive wins, including a 3-0 start in SEC play, the Commodores are now on a three-game losing skid following a 93-68 beatdown at the hands of John Calipari’s No.
The polls moved. Again. Arkansas slid. Again. And none of it changes what actually matters in mid-January. The Razorbacks dropped three spots to No. 20 in the latest AP Top 25 following a split week that looked exactly like a split week usually looks in the rankings.
After facing one of the more efficient scoring teams in the country at Georgia Saturday night, the Razorbacks will face a formidable Vanderbilt team capable of cutting nets in March.
The Arkansas basketball team has had an up and down season. That turbulence continued on Saturday, when the Razorbacks dropped an SEC conference game to Georgia.
The numbers will say 90-76, and that’s accurate enough. What they won’t say is how close this one came to looking a whole lot uglier — the kind of afternoon Arkansas fans still haven’t fully recovered from after last Saturday at Auburn.
Arkansas is coming off a bounce-back victory on Wednesday night. They took care of South Carolina 108-74, but last Saturday, Arkansas was upset by Auburn 95-73.
After his Razorbacks were trounced 95-73 on the road at Auburn on Jan. 10, Arkansas head coach John Calipari made it clear that he had already moved on.
No. 17 Arkansas suffered its worst loss of the season Saturday, and coach John Calipari does not plan a video review. "I'm burning the tape," Calipari said after the Razorbacks' 95-73 defeat at Auburn that dropped them two spots in the AP Top 25.
After just one SEC game, No. 15 Arkansas already sees a brighter road ahead. The Razorbacks (11-3, 1-0, SEC), who lost their first five conference games under coach John Calipari last season, won their league opener Saturday when they defeated then-No.
No. 8 Houston basketball defeated the No. 14 Arkansas Razorbacks 94-85 on Saturday evening in the Never Forget Tribute Classic. After the much anticipated battle, Arkansas head coach John Calipari had nothing but praise for how Houston performed over the weekend.
Boosters have become more important than ever in the name, image and likeness era of college athletics, and Arkansas head coach John Calipari has come up with a way to protect those who want to help schools build out their rosters.
John Calipari has seen college basketball evolve throughout the years. He doesn't sound particularly enthused about the current state or direction of things.