The Southwest Classic: Basketball Edition Part II.
It’s arguably bigger than the actual Southwest Classic from the fall in which Texas A&M knocked off Arkansas on the football field. Arkansas took the men’s basketball rematch in Fayetteville just over two weeks ago.
On Wednesday, the Aggies get another shot on the hardwood with even more on the line. Tip from College Station is at 8 p.m.
Joe Lunardi’s latest Bracketology at ESPN has the two in about the same shape when it comes to NCAA Tournament possibilities. Texas A&M has four-game lead in the SEC standings on the Razorbacks, but the Aggies are slotted as 10-seed trending up against Arkansas’ 9-seed trending down.
The Hogs had been trending up the last two weeks in the midst of a five-game SEC winning streak. But Saturday’s loss to Mississippi State in Fayetteville was the opposite stuff from what dreams are made. It was perhaps Arkansas’ worst game of the season in conference play.
Now it’s meant that every tip from here out for the Razorbacks carries weight. And getting a win against Texas A&M on the road, on the basketball court, well, that means a whole heck of a lot more than the nothingness of the football game in the fall.
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