The Arkansas women’s basketball team may have a worse loss than the men, but they’re in better shape when it comes to NCAA Tournament projections, anyway.
The Razorbacks fell last time to Arkansas-Pine Bluff, a SWAC team projected to finish third in that perpetual one-bid league. Still, ESPN’s Charlie Creme didn’t knock Arkansas all the way out of his Bracketology.
Coach Mike Neighbors’ bunch made the “Next Four Out” group of teams in Tuesday’s update. Seven teams were slotted ahead of the Hogs but still short of the Dance, meaning Arkansas has plenty of work to do to make it.
Arkansas has four nonconference games remaining before SEC play begins Jan. 4 at Kentucky. League play is where the Hogs’ NCAA Tournament hopes will hang, that is assuming they don’t lose any more games they are supposed to win between now and then.
The “Next Four Out” spot is better than their male classmantes, which fell all the way out of Joe Lunardi’s same Bracketology on the men’s side.