Eric Musselman has been angry many times in his Arkansas basketball coaching career. That emotion wasn’t a rare one to see on Saturday.
What was rare was the hint of disappointment with disgust he carried into the post-game press conference following his team’s loss to South Carolina on Saturday, 77-64.
That loss is Arkansas’ fourth in five SEC games to start conference play and creates a hole that is improbable the Razorbacks can overcome. Only once in the last five NCAA Tournaments that featured Arkansas have the Hogs rallied after a 1-4 SEC start. And the 2023-24 team doesn’t look much at all like that 2017-18 team.
Musselman normally makes little asides, win or lose, to the media in his pressers. None occurred Saturday. His posture, even, was that of a coach exhausted and dejected by his team’s poor play.
As for answers as to how to fix it, he didn’t have any. Until his team starts communicating better and wanting to play for each other, Arkansas will continue to struggle. Musselman said it’s on him and coaching staff to fix it.
Check out the rest of what the Arkansas head man had to say below.