NCAA Tournament hopes for the Arkansas basketball team are all but finishing with a month left in the regular season. At this point, the Razorbacks are playing to avoid the status of Worst Team Since.
The question is since when.
Arkansas can avoid becoming the worst team since 2008-09 on Saturday. To do so, the Razorbacks must beat Georgia in Fayetteville. Georgia won the teams’ first meeting in early January handily. The ESPN Basketball Power Index gives Arkansas the edge at home, though.
That 2008-09 team finished 14-16 overall and 2-14 in the SEC. To be clear, beating the Bulldogs on Saturday would ensure Arkansas doesn’t finish league play as bad as John Pelphrey’s bunch did that year. But the Hogs’ overall record, which sits at 11-11, is still iffy.
Arkansas has never been under .500 in coach Eric Musselman’s four-plus seasons. The man who has led Arkansas to three straight Sweet Sixteens has been at sea, wondering what has gone wrong with his Hogs team that was a preseason Top-25 bunch.
While it may be too late in the year to figure it out now while getting rewarded with a postseason berth, Arkansas does, at least, still have pride to play for.
Here’s how you can catch them take on UGA.